Bill “Mr Burns” Gates for President

Posted on November 30th, 2006 in General by Jim Prince

Bill GatesIt was entertaining to read on Scott Adams Dilbert Blog about his recommendation that Bill Gates should be president of the United States.

He would probably make an excellent president, certainly better than Mr Bush, but I doubt he would want the job. It’s such a shame so many people slag him off, and that Steve Jobs gets all the good press.

Keep an eye on billgatesforpresident.net to see how the campaign progresses and yes I also think he looks disturbingly like Mr Burns from the Simpsons.

[tags]Bill Gates, President, Scott Adams, Dilbert, Mr Burns, Simpsons[/tags]


Damn retarded n00bs!

Posted on November 28th, 2006 in Games, General, Technology, Work by Jim Prince

Second LifeAfter the recent announcements from Talis regarding our sponsorship of Cybrary City in Second Life I thought it was about time I had a gander. So I activated my account and ‘Jim Olbers’ was duly born.

The controls and interface are a little unwieldy, and compared to the likes of World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 it’s not nearly as slick or as good looking, but I suppose I’m comparing apples with oranges. It’s also a little, well, seedy. Kind of like the lawless dark days of the Internet.

While the majority of people are friendly and chatty there is an undercurrent of resentment towards new users, who seem to be getting the brunt of the blame for the recent performance problems.

I was sat on a bench in one of the open areas when one n00b flew down straight into one of the people I was talking to, he was dragged from one end of the screen to the other, at which point, he uttered the words I used for the subject of this post.

I logged off shortly after that. I think I’ll stick with FPS games and the occasional dip into a MMORPG. Sorry Second lifers, I’m afraid I just don’t get it, but kudos to Talis for experimenting with something so bleeding edge (or bleeding rubbish depending on who you talk to).

[tags]Second Life, Talis[/tags]


Switching Blogs

Posted on November 28th, 2006 in General, Personal, Technology by Jim Prince

I’ve been meaning to ditch MovableType and switch to Wordpress for ages and now I have. It’s faster, slicker, easier to post to and has a much larger selection of plugins, themes and support.

I really like the theme I’ve chosen but I’m not sure about the colour scheme. I’ll probably change it when I get chance. Hopefully using Wordpress will encourage me to post more regularly, MovableType was getting increasingly slow at rebuilding pages and regularly crapped out on me.

Happy blogging.

Jim

[tags]Blogs, Blogging, MovableType, Wordpress[/tags]


Nice one Oz

Posted on November 24th, 2006 in General, Personal, Television and Radio by Jim Prince

From Oz Naughten who contacted me presumably after reading this.

Do you hate “Quote Unquote”? Really hate it? Enough to tell Mr Tony Blair?

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NoMoreRees/

If this works, I’m going to petition to have Nigel Rees hanged. Live on T. During the Lottery draw. On ice.

[tags]Nigel Rees, Quote Unquote, Radio 4[/tags]