My Weird Sleep Patterns

By Ben, on October 21st, 2009%

Whenever I go to bed at a reasonable hour lately I somtimes have very vivid dreams. They’re not vivid in a way that everything looks real, it’s more that everything feels real to me emotionally. Unfortunately most of my dreams are incredibly depressing and even though when I wake up I know they’re not real, . . . → Read More: My Weird Sleep Patterns

TV Updates

By Ben, on October 19th, 2009%

I haven’t posted about my television viewing lately, so here’s an update:

Fringe

Remains awesome and loving every moment. Everything seems to be heading to Peter finding out he is actually from an alternate universe and that Walter kidnapped him. I really like that they don’t mess about in this show. Other shows feel like . . . → Read More: TV Updates

MMO Rivalry

By Ben, on October 19th, 2009%

While I play WoW, I also play Lord of the Rings Online and once upon a time I also played Age of Conan (I stopped because the game itself isn’t very interesting). If you’re like me and have stepped outside the confines of WoW you will have found quite a lot of animosty and derision . . . → Read More: MMO Rivalry

Search Expectations

By Ben, on October 14th, 2009%

In this day and age of Google and friends there are certain things you expect when software says it includes search functionality. At the most basic level you expect that if you type in ‘elephant’ it will find all instances of the word ‘elephant’. The next step is that typing ‘free’ would return all instances . . . → Read More: Search Expectations

Insurance Companies are Evil

By Ben, on October 6th, 2009%

Did I ever mention that I despise insurance companies? Insurance companies exist to promote fear of what might happen which they then use to sell you ‘peace of mind’. Should you ever need to make use of your insurance you are penalised by higher rates or denial of your claim.

Insurance companies employ a lot . . . → Read More: Insurance Companies are Evil

Nice Try…

By Ben, on September 30th, 2009%

In my junk mail yesterday:

From: wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com <wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com> Subject: World of Warcraft Account Management Greetings! It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell/trade your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may or may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to . . . → Read More: Nice Try…

IE Quirks

By Ben, on September 29th, 2009%

Did you know that if you link more than 30 css stylesheets Internet Explorer won’t recognise anything past the 30th? Neither did I and what a waste of time disocvering that was.

Luckily Drupal has a feature where it can take all of your css files and make them into a single on to save . . . → Read More: IE Quirks

It’s Our Secret

By Ben, on September 17th, 2009%

Shh! I just ordered Katamari Forever from the US and Oui doesn’t know.

Luckily he never visits ‘our’ blog.

District 9

By Ben, on September 14th, 2009%

District 9 is finally coming out in Thailand this week. Usually films come out here when they’re released in the US, but there are odd cases such as this one where they release later. We happened to be at Central World on Saturday with a friend visiting from Sydney and saw they had a couple . . . → Read More: District 9

Inglorious Basterds

By Ben, on September 10th, 2009%

This film has Quentin Tarantino written all over it and it was a lot of fun. The guy who played the ‘Jew Hunter’ was exceptional and I don’t even know who he was (yes, I could look it up on IMDB but I’m too lazy). You could tell he was having a lot of fun . . . → Read More: Inglorious Basterds

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