New Zelda Game on the way

Just got an email from Nintendo, turns out they are releasing a new Zelda game, don’t know when this was made official so this may be slightly old news, but whatever it is cool news, I haven’t checked out the Nintendo Europe site yet to see if there is any more info on there about it, but that will give me something to do later huh! it’ll be great to get a hold of a new Zelda game, I have spent countless hours playing them previously and will probably do the same with this one if I get my hands on it.

Worst handheld games consoles

Raj Patel on CrunchGear has compiled a top 10 list of the worst gaming handhelds.

Some of the consoles are certainly fit for that list just based on their looks alone, but personally I don’t agree with the order that some of them are ranked in, and I am a little stunned to see Sony’s PSP on there.

Here is the link

Microsoft Expression Web Developer (part 2)

Well, I spent a little timeusing this software yesterday afternoon, and to be fair I don’t think I actually used it enough to be able to slate it or give it a raving review, so I am not going to do either.

What I will say is that this program is probably not for the home user or even the commercial user with a very small site or very limited requirements, simply because looking at it this software is feature packed and usually with features comes price tags so once the beta is over with I would not expect it to be cheap to buy.

There are a few things I can say initially I do like about this program, and a few that maybe I would change or get rid of, but as I said initially I don’t think I have explored enough of the features to go in depth – yet.

If you want to take a look at it for yourself though, you can find it here

Microsoft Expression Web Designer

Just got the download for this last night, what do I think of it?

At the moment I don’t know because it is installing as I sit here blogging well, got to occupy myself with something while that little blue bar edges along.

I’ll have a play with this later on this morning and hopefully will give it raving reviews later on today. One thing that has kind of surprised me with this though is that so far there seems to be nothing on channel9 about this prog.

 Maybe it isn’t quite good enough for them to feature it over there

FREAK

The title of this post is directed at who ever is responsible for emailing the owner of a website I did not know existed and threatening to infringe the copyright of their work, not much of a big deal huh, well no not really but it is when who ever sent that email to the site owner did so supposedly from one of my email addresses leaving me to have to explain to the site owner that I had no intention of ripping his site content and passing it off as my own.

OK no real harm done, but that is not the point, mind thinking about it I guess some small minded people have nothing better to do with their time.

Now, moving on……Why do they call a pocket pc a “pocket” pc, because looking at it, though granted they are small but they are not exactly pocket sized, well most of them arent anyway. I have had that question gnawing away all day, probably because I spent most of the afternoon fiddling about with my own ppc, which is somewhat different from what I was going to do – spend some time messing about on the ibook.

Also I am getting so fed up with the woman that own’s the local newsagents, however I don’t have much choice but go in there, as the other local shop is a filling station and one their prices are well over the top, and two they only sell the local newspaper, and I read two of the nationals, so I have to go into the old cow’s shop and get my national press, anyhow the reason I hate her guts more and more each time I see her: Well not for the same reason as most people round here, it is more to do with the fact that I have a health problem, and she finds it exremely amusing to laugh about it with her staff, I started to think it a little strange a few weeks ago when the laughter started every time I walked in the shop, but thought nothing of it, then after a while I started to cotton on, and finally overheard a conversation between a couple of the staff about me while I was in the shop, and now I must admit my opinion of them lowers every time I see them, I also dont spend as much money there as I used to, meaning I get ALL my “newsagent” stuff thrown in with my grocery shopping online which in turn means I have gone from spending about £30.00 a week in the newsagent to around £4.00 ok only a loss of around £27.00 but for a small retailer I hope that is enough to knock the profit margin, even if it is by something as small as one or two percent.

Hurrah for free stuff

A short while ago I subscribed to 3 IT magazines, all of which are on a “trial” service, where I pay something like £1.00 for 2 or 3 issues delivered to my door each month, and providing I cancel it before the so called trial period is up all I pay is the tiny sum already taken, something I will make sure of should I decide to cancel them as I will delete the direct debit on my bank account, with the subscription however comes a free gift from each magazine, something I didn’t know about when I signed up so imagine my surprise when a toolkit arrives at my house yesterday afternoon, totally free of charge and mine to keep even if I cancel the subscription! But that is not all, again this morning I get another 2 packages one of which is a tech book and the other a PC toolkit, both coincidentally I wanted to get anyway, I just had not got around to actually going and buying them.

Again both of these gifts are mine to keep even if I cancel the subscription, and the best bit is I haven’t been charged anything for the trial part of the subscription yet, so effectively I could now go to my internet banking, cancel the direct debits and keep the stuff and we are not talking cheap stuff here either, the book is worth £24.95, the std. toolkit would cost about £10.00 from a DIY store and the PC toolkit varies in price depending on where you go but is marked up anything from £15.00 – £26.99 so looking at it I have got near on £50.00 worth of gear for subscribing to three magazines, all of which will arrive at my door and be charged at less than the cover price.

 My thoughts on this: Much welcomed gifts, useful gifts, BARGAINS, but note to magazine publishers: perhaps someone should re-think the way these things are sent out because I am sure there are people out there that would rip them off by signing up for the mags, getting the free stuff and then cancelling before they pay anything.

Flickr on a go-slow?

Is it just me, my laptop, my DSL or something else or is Flickr on a hell of a go-slow lately??

This is 2 nights running I have been on there and found it to be about as fast as a snail with lead boots on.

I wouldn’t mind so much but I actually find myself enjoying looking at everyones photos on there, I can spend hours browsing through them all, I had a weekend here on my own a short while ago, and don’t laugh but I actually spent most of the Sunday just browsing Flickr, what I mean by that is I literally did nothing else all day apart from get up to get drinks and other essential supplies lol, but seriously I was on there all damned day I must be addicted, maybe I should go the local FA meeting.

KW

Auto Paps

I found this http://www.car-parazzi.com/  c/o Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ There is some pretty cool and imaginative stuff over there, just a shame I didn’t know about this kind of thing when I was 17 as my interest in cars is not as great now as it was then!