SiCKO is the new documentary film by director Michael Moore.
The film is an investigation into the American health care system, and the large health insurance companies which control the care in the US contrasting with our own NHS and other countries with universal health care coverage....
Read the rest of this entry »How to make Facebook and a diary application of your choice work together. Although I am starting to get queazy Déjà vu feeling about the new Facebook "Applications", there are still nifty little features that keep me in a warm happy glow. Read the rest of this entry »
They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.
From one landmark game, to another. Max Payne was created by Remedy Entertainment and set free into the world in July, 2001.
Unlike Doom, Max Payne is a third-person shooter, (the camera floats behind the character), and follows the escapades of Max, a fugitive undercover cop framed for the murder of his wife and daughter by some junkies high on a new designer drug called Valkyr. His investigations lead him into the seedy underbelly of New York's crime world. On the run from the mob and the police, he desperately tries to find out who was really behind the murders and why he was set up for a fall. Read the rest of this entry »
So as an update to my post yesterday, Apple released the final details for Leopard. Quite a lot of disappointment really, there isn’t anything new in Leopard that makes me go "Wow! I must have that".
Like I said on Paul's site, mostly it seems just glitzy stuff, although the Automator "record actions" bit is pretty neat. Apple have got a complete features list of Leopard, but generally it is mostly eye-candy, and not much that seems to be truly innovative and useful. Read the rest of this entry »
Update: Only two of my predictions came true, Vista virtulization and GUI update. Find out more on my OS X Leopard post.
Later today, Steve Jobs will deliver the Keynote address of the 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference, in San Francisco.
This is the event where Apple fanboys and fangirls get to see all the lovely new stuff that Apple has been working on. Last year we were given a preview of the new operating system, Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard. At the time Steve told the assembled masses that there were one or two things that they had up their sleeve, and hopefully today, we'll find out what they are. Read the rest of this entry »
The daddy of all 3D computer games; Doom.
I was 8 years old when Doom was released in 1993 by id Software. The company was responsible for many of the games I played as a child, among them Commander Keen, Quake and Doom. I probably shouldn't have been playing such violent games as a child, but there have been no ill effects other than a warm fuzzy feeling and an itchy trigger finger when I hear the word "Doom". Read the rest of this entry »