9 – Interesting film – Not sure about it.

  By Wade | November 21, 2009 - 09:37 | Films
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I watched 9 last night and while it certainly was emotional, I was left feeling somewhat let down and confused at the end of it. I’m going to talk about specifics in the film here so if you’ve not seen it yet and intend to, don’t ready anymore. It starts off with a guy creating a small doll (that is to be 9) and bringing it to life. 9 soon meets others who are like him who explain what happened to the world – the film is set in a post apocalyptic future where man has been wiped out. So … Continue reading →

Superb VPS (Virtual Private Server) Provider – VPS.net Review

  By Wade | November 18, 2009 - 20:47 | Hardware, Programming, Support
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A few months ago at work we realised the need for lots of “nodes” (servers) in the UK and in the US initially. We have a lot of data processing that we need to do and we worked out it would be faster and cheaper if we could distribute the work over lots of servers rather than a few beefy servers. Dan started looking around and found VPS.net, they looked good so we thought we’d give them a go. Of course we didn’t want to “put all our eggs in one basket” so we took out some VPS servers with … Continue reading →

For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager

  By Wade | November 18, 2009 - 12:13 | Programming, Software
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I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides 2 extremely useful features. The first feature is a list of all saved sessions so you can just double click and it opens a new PuTTY session inside the application. The second feature (and this one is great if you’re like us at work and … Continue reading →

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only two weeks away from real experiments, hopefully

  By Wade | November 14, 2009 - 11:46 | Science
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It seems the large hadron collider has had no end of problems, which led some people to believe it was due to something in the future time travelling into the past to prevent its launch. But now it seems that it’s almost there as initial tests have finally succeeded. CERN, the Swiss facility where the enormous underground experiment is located, has announced that test beams in the LHC have zoomed around most parts of the accelerator without incident: Particles are smoothly making their way around the 27 km circumference of the LHC. Last weekend (7-8 November), the first bunches of … Continue reading →

Final Fantasy XIII Official Release Date Announced, 09th March 2010!

  By Wade | November 14, 2009 - 09:02 | Gaming
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Square Enix have put up a new video with interviews and a few unseen sections of FFXIII on the site which you can view here. But most importantly, they’ve announced the US/Europe release date as the 9th March 2010, not that far away really! It is now also available for pre-order at Amazon, be sure to grab your copy now! Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) – Preorder now Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360) – Preorder now

John Tartaglia’s ‘Imaginocean!’ to appear on the Oasis of the Seas

  By Wade | November 11, 2009 - 10:39 | Events, Holidays
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John Tartaglia‘s Imaginocean!, a new family musical set in the depths of the ocean, will debut November 20 on Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas. Donna Drake directs the production. Conceived and written by Tartaglia, with music by William Wade, the show follows the adventure of a group of fish friends, who uncover a map which leads them to ultimately uncover the treasure of each other’s friendship. The puppets for the piece are designed by The Puppet Kitchen, and the show will be performed by a cast of puppeteers. For further information, visit www.royalcaribbean.com. Looking for cheap … Continue reading →

Santa Claus is Coming to Town for Christmas Number One 2009! (not X-Factor)

  By Wade | November 9, 2009 - 18:40 | Random Stuff
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It’s getting close to Christmas 2009 and once again it looks like X-Factor is going to be the christmas number one, regardless of what else comes up. I’m not sure about you but I feel it’s time for a traditional christmas song again, no more random song for christmas, it’s time for a real christmas song, and while there are plenty of options, I feel Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen has real potential, it embodies all that christmas has to offer. It’s certainly “christmasy” (Santa Claus, come on!) and it’s a happy song, it just embodies … Continue reading →

Epic Games releases Unreal Development Toolkit for FREE

  By Wade | November 7, 2009 - 12:51 | Gaming, Programming
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Yes, you heard it right, the game engine that usually costs to license is now totally free for anyone to use (without any payments at all for non-commercial use). If you decide to make a game and release it, they’ll let you earn $5,000 dollars gratis, after that they want a 25% royalty – I would say that’s a pretty fair deal considering you spend nothing if you make nothing! Years ago, before I went full thrust into PHP programming I did a lot of game development work in the community spirit. Free mods for games, free 3D models, free … Continue reading →