Tuesday, January 31, 2006
In PSP terms, the moment I've been waiting for arrived this week.The hacker, coder, and all round PSP hero Fanjita has again, found a way around the psp firmware's blocking of homebrew programs, and opened the doors to a mass of emulators, home coded games, and utilities.
So I spent much of yesterday playing megadrive, snes and atari games on my psp. It's an entirely silly thing to want to do with a modern handheld games system, but I like using things in ways they weren't intended.
Labels: consoles
Steve 10:22 AM [+] (0) comments
Monday, January 30, 2006
This sunday was the first aniversary of Andrea and I meeting.To celebrate, we spent the weekend back in Milton Keynes, staying at the Cock Hotel, in Stony Stratford.
The Cock is a famous place, though you may not know it. Ever heard of the 'cock and bull story', or "We'll ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross"?.... that's The Cock Hotel in Stony.
Saying that... the quality of service, and general level of maintenance in the place left something to be desired. Some of the staff were great, but jeez, some were really miserable bastards... and the faults and safety issues in the place... if they'd had a surprise health and safety visit, they'd be shut down in an instant.
This didn't matter hugely to us though, as we'd booked into the place on a discount online bookinjg scheme, and weren't even paying half of full price. Had we been paying full whack though, I suspect we'd have left and gone somewhere else.
Anyway... not wanting to go on about the hotel, coz it wan't a biggie really....
So, did we have fun? Yup, very much so. I can't say we did anything unusual, exotic or out of the ordinary... we just enjoyed the time going to places we used to go to when I lived there, like down to the river, or for drinks in the Vaults Bar while they had a folk workshop.
Oh yeah.
After 5 months, I got a haircut at last. It's kinda funny, coz I could get it done here really easilly, but I waited to travel 105 miles before I had it cut, so I could go to the same place I always used to have it done.
We'll definitely go back again, and next time, we'll probably go see some friends and family too. We decided not to do that this time, coz.. well... being a special occasion for us, we just wanted the time to ourselves.
A year eh? How'd that happen?
Labels: hotels, Stony Stratford
Steve 3:54 PM [+] (0) comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Wow.Ages since I posted.
Oh well.
I haven't really known what to write, to be honest. Since quitting college, I don't really know quite where I'm at, and with the distractions of christmas and new year, I'm only this week starting to take stock of where my life might be going.
Anyways, while not thinking about such serious things, I've spent much of my time playing around with my psp.
Last night I upgraded the firmware, and lo and behold, was presented with the wonder of rss feeds for streaming podcasts.
"Do whatnow?"
Er... it's like recorded radio shows in mp3 format that you'd normally download onto an ipod and play later... but on the psp, you stream them.
Streaming is both good and bad, depending on your perspective. You don't have to worry about having enough storage space to keep the podcast on your psp, but you're limited to only being able to play them when you're near your wi-fi connection, or a hotspot.
So, I found this really sick and twisted podcast called Distorted View.
To say the content is 'adult' is putting it mildly... but it's SO funny. The guy sits there reading sick porn, or playing fucked up recordings of god knows what, and then proceeds to take this piss out of them.
Yeah, it's pretty juvenile, but it's way entertaining.
Go take a look... or not. You'll find the mp3s in the archives, so I'd imagine you can play them just fine on a pc.
Labels: consoles
Steve 11:13 AM [+] (0) comments
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