Now I don’t play much Playstation. I own a PS2 and only actually play one game on it, or at least, one series of game on it, and thats Grand Theft Auto, a game which I simply cannot be parted from, I can sit there for hours. I much prefer the PC for gaming, Medal of Honour, Halflife, Doom3 etc. But, Sony today unveiled their PS3, set to debut in Spring 2006 and man, is that looking sexy.    PS3 [...]

I’ve been enjoying the content that developers have been submitting to the BBC Backstage project. The project is based on the decision that the beeb has made to open up their news website with an API and the relaxing of their licensing and terms & conditions to go with it. These now allow us normal people to use our initiative and varying types of expertise to develop scripts that use content from the BBC News website to do things that [...]

Had this forwarded to me this morning, I don’t usually take much notice of the standard “forwarded to everybody in the company” emails, but I found this one quite intriguing and quirky. From: Ryall, Adam Sent: 12 May 2005 10:21 To: Subject: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the [...]

God I hate Internet Explorer so much. I added some new code to the site this morning, as usual everything worked fine in Firefox, but because IE is so primative and does not interpret all CSS correctly, it was constantly making the site look like a load of balls. Word from Micro$oft is that IE7 will address a load of issues with the incompatiblities it has with CSS, but beta tests are not even due to start until the late [...]

One event over, another one starts.. No, not another election, but the F1 Spanish Grand Prix. I’ve finally decided to subscribe to the F1-Live.com premium service, it actually offers quite a lot for the ardent race fan. During a grand prix weekend there is a screen which is constantly updated with sector and laptimes and during the Grand Prix it is also updated with current track positions. I’ve set the laptop up on the sofa next to me to display [...]