Yesterday, I bought two 1GB PC5300-667MHz SODIMMs, and replaced the two 512MB sticks in my iMac. I was, understandably, somewhat apprehensive about opening up the iMac and putting in third-party components, but I’m happy to say that the entire process was incredibly pain-free and easy, and OS X runs more smoothly than it ever did [...]

The official Stardust trailer has just been released. I’m not quite sure what to think about this. Having recently read Stardust again, as well as listened to the audiobook read by Neil Gaiman himself, I’ve become particularly fond of the text of the book. The trailer clearly shows that the movie script deviates from the [...]

Penny Arcade alerted me to this trailer for the new Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix game. The last time Square released a Final Mix, I was sorely disappointed to discover that it did not have English text like Final Fantasy X International did, and ended up getting the PAL version of Kingdom Hearts instead. This [...]

Ever since hearing about Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey” on Net@Nite, I’ve been picking up Jonathan Coulton’s songs. I first heard him on the audiobook version of John Hodgman’s “The Areas of my Expertise”, and never quite realised what a great musician he was until I started listening to his music. He sells his songs cheaply, [...]

They allow -166 remaining spaces in their classes (maybe they’ll control class size during the official module selection). They allow students to rent stools to sit outside the classroom to listen to the lecturer. They allow students to rent stools to stand on in the classroom. They allow students to paste pieces of paper all [...]