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Microsoft finally woke up

Microsoft finally woke up

Well, it looks like someone from Microsoft actually reads my blog. If you read the earlier post entitled Microsoft, you are retarded, you would see that I was extremely unhappy with Microsoft’s method of suspending users when they don’t want to pay for additional months of XBox Live Gold memberships. I just received an email […]

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Backwards ordering of blog comments

Backwards ordering of blog comments

This is one thing that really annoys me, blogs that have their comments backwards. I really don’t understand what kind of sense it makes having the comments in reverse chronological order, i.e. latest to earliest. Most comments on blog posts are either replies to another comment or reference something said in an earlier one. For […]

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Firefox Geolocation, not all that useful

Firefox Geolocation, not all that useful

Today, I decided to test out a new feature of Mozilla Firefox 3.5, the Geolocation system. Now, I have to say, using a mobile phone with Google’s Location Services is actually pretty accurate – within a few hundred metres. But it would appear it is not the same for fixed connections. Even when connected via […]

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Planes in GTA IV

Recently I started doing some modding work on GTA IV. Plenty of people were complaining that there were no planes in the game, so I decided to do some research into it. It seems that Rockstar left the code from San Andreas for flying planes in the game, it’s just disabled as there are no […]

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