I’ve started a new game. This one is a rewrite of a game I made for the GBA a few years ago. I’m not going to clutter this place up with the status information and general chatter, instead there is a new blog running on my main site.
Visit the main site, click “Code & Projects” and then choose an option 
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Read on for an amusing tale of what happens when people fail to change the default settings in their hardware. I’ve got a wireless network, my neighbour seems to as well. Fortunately for him he has WPA, fortunately for me I have MAC address filtering.
Unfortunately for me I have a Belkin router that doesn’t work properly 
Firefox is a great browser, but for some reason it has moments where it seems someone has poured treacle into my PC or the code has been written in BASIC. Quite a bit of this is probably my PC, the randomness of the Internet and other things I can’t control but being a “power user” there must be something I can fiddle with…
Open a new tab and type “about:config” into the addressbar. Look at all those cryptic options! It’s like browsing through /etc or poking the Windows registry with regedit. Fancy a fiddle with the settings? I found two sites that tell you to change things and type in new configuration options – all with the promise your browsing experience will be “faster”. They don’t quantify what this “faster” means, but hey! ignore that and have a fiddle, it seems to have made things load quicker.
Now if only there was a way to make Flash not clog the browser up, or Java bring the whole thing tumbling down.
The English language is a tricky beast. Being a mixture of various other languages, mixed with some grunts and the importance of context it’s no wonder people get it wrong. In fact I’m sure there’s grammatical errors creeping into this post as I type.
Most people won’t notice the odd missing comma, the time you used a semi-colon rather than a full-stop, or missed off the period from the end of “etc”, etc. What stand’s out a mile though is that damn apostrophe. Their like a giant flashing beacon that say’s “Err… I have no clue where it goes so it goe’s in everything”. Same with “their”, “they’re” and “there”.
I’m quite glad I have English as my native language; learning this loosely structured mass must be quite hard. So, in the true blogging style, rather than write about ways to improve our typing I thought I’d simply link to someone else.
Five Common Mistakes That Make You Look Dumb
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