the mini Blog

Sorry I haven’t been posting for a while, due to my exams. They have now finished; well the last one was on Monday and I took some time to relax from the past 2 years of stress! Anyways that burden has now been lifted, and I think it’s safe to say I think they went [...]

An employee of a UK games shop has managed to sneak out a black DS Lite and take a few snaps of the thing, which he promptly let Joystiq know of. He has preferred to remain only under the name of Spudstercool, probably because the shop would have his ass! The shop was also nnamed [...]

This is an unusual and unlucky story about the fate of an iPod Shuffle. The story goes like this; Francis’ friend had a buggered Shuffle. It was out of warranty and he looked around the good old interweb for guides to disassemble it. He first checked to make sure it was ‘dead’ by plugging it [...]

This morning I woke up at around 9:30 with a nasty headache (I went to a party last night :)) and I couldn’t go back to sleep so I went downstairs. Just as I stepped into the living room the phone rang. The Sky Technician was calling to say that he’ll be here between 10AM-2PM. [...]

That’s right ladies and gentlemen. 18,000 DS Lites, that’s almost $2.3 million worth of DS goodness (18 million Hong Kong Dollars). The DS Lites were swiped — the whole truck sized container — en route from China to Europe to be sold on 23 June. Hong Kong officials fear that these were swiped to be [...]

My Dad decided to jump at the chance of getting Sky HD (the first available HD in the UK - comes over satellite), and well we don’t have it yet. We should of had it on May 27th, but sadly due to Sky HD’s overwhelming popularity they haven’t been able to make enough boxes. Thompson, [...]

Today’s short links are:

Green fliud found oozing from the backside of a number of G5’s (above) [link]
600 PowerMac G5’s used to digitally re-encode and master the Ultimate DVD Collection of James Bond [link]
Hilarious recording of an AOL user trying to cancel the account which he doesn’t use, but the rep tries to say that he [...]

It has been spotted by a number of people that piraters (is that even a word?) have been making bootleg copies of DS games. 4 color rebellion has some photos and pictures to illustrate how you can recognise these fakes and avoid paying a bunch for fake and malfunctioning carts. They make a few main [...]

Thanks to Joystiq for the image
JAL, Japan Airlines, is offering a in-flight DS Lite campaign during their international flights between June 1st and August 31st 2006. Granted this is only for First Class and Executive passengers but it is still a rather cool idea. So all you need to do is check whether your flight [...]

This is a very interesting story, and the first of the sort that I’ve heard of. Some pictures on Flickr really clear the point up so rest assured, this is not because of greasy fingers. Apparently this has been reported by quite a few users, so it maybe a batch problem, or worse (eg, total [...]