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Harry and his scooter

We finally managed to find somewhere (JJB Sports) that had the right sized helmet and knee/elbow pads for Harry that didn’t look too childish so today we went to the local park and let him ride on his scooter that he had for Christmas.

Shartak revisited

Following some recent advertising on Urban Dead and the removal of the 300 player limit, Shartak now has over 650 players and things are starting to get interesting.

Shartak

For the last few months I’ve been working on a web-based multiplayer game set on an island where you have to explore, fight animals, and watch out for strangers. It’s an MMORPG similar in style to Urban Dead but with a different theme. The name of both the game and …

NTL 10 meg hiccups

Since we were upgraded to the 10 meg service, there have been a number of problems with the connection freezing. Reset the cable modem by pulling out the power cable, and it starts working again fine immediately. Having jumped through the hoops held by NTL’s broadband tech …

Christmas has come early

Thanks to NTL, we’re now enjoying the wonders of 10Mbps broadband. There was some doubt as to whether it would actually get upgraded before Christmas as various sites (such as BBC News and The Register) had reported earlier in the year but NTL came through as promised. …

New podcasts

Some new podcasts that I’ve subscribed to recently are: Hometown Tales - ghost tales, strange stories and legends. Scott Sigler’s Ancestor - Sci-fi story by the author of Earthcore The Tech Guy - a radio show on KFI 640

Ice has gone, but now there's a crack

For the first morning in several days, there wasn’t ice on the windscreen of the car like this picture from yesterday. Instead of ice there was a 6 inch crack starting down near the passenger side bottom corner. At first I thought it was just water running across the corner …

Comment spam yet again

In the last few days I’ve been getting maybe 5 or 6 bits of blog comment spam through each day. The weird thing is that they’re not advertising viagra, cialis, dodgy websites, poker or anything like that. In fact, they’re not really advertising anything as such, …

Music downloads

On the latest episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech) there were some sites mentioned, amongst them was Steadman, a band who have put loads (all?) of their tracks online for download. I listened to some of them and they’re pretty good, go have a listen for yourself!

Urban Dead in print

PC Gamer (December 2005) has a whole page about Urban Dead in it. I suppose this means more publicity for Kevan’s game and some fresh survivors for the zombie hordes to munch on.