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Or the dance tent if it comes to that. You get a right load of dodgy bastards wandering around looking for shit to rob.

Take solace in the fact that you (plural) are probably never going to be this plum: http://www.entertonement.com/clips/mcfrwvjtpw--ASDA-Customer-Services-Idiot-With-Pizza#abridged_text_-629568988

Castor - my previous job was fairly well paid, and am now in a great position. All I really need is money for food and bills. More cash would be nice, but at the moment having a job that I actually enjoy is more important to me than what I take home. I don't know I will enjoy it of course, I only know that I feel ridiculously more positive about this decision than any interview I've had over the last 3 months. So positive that I had to say it twice. Just finished the 'Supporting Info' bullshit for the app form as well, something which I hate doing! Thunder, I feel for ya. Broken hearts suck - it's hard to know what to say but only that no matter how bleak it looks now, you will bounce back.

I've decided to try a change in career. Still applying for security jobs, but am filling in an application as an outreach worker for a local charitable trust that works with learning disabled. The pay is 1/5 of what I'm used to but feel really positive about the decision, more positive than I've felt for years about a job. I might not like it, but feel I owe it to myself to give it a good go. Plus, I will actually doing something useful to other people, rather than enriching some CEO dick.

"A Book Full of Beans" by Richard Fowler. Was published in '78, sadly no pics can be found.

No idea, that's why I was asking

Is that kind of like Les Pieds Nickeles?

I was reading one dev forum, and they say it's already got that OpenGL ES 2.0 support - it's just that the CPU is too crap to run it fast enough. Moot point I suppose really!

I enjoyed it too. On a level that I went to see it on - i.e. there's going to be lots of big explosions and killer robots, it was great fun. The ending soured it a little, yes, but I also really dug the sinister robot 'conversation' sound effects and the big stompy thing. You can't look too deeply into it. It's a terminator movie. Analysing it too much is insane. In other news, The Wire series 5 arrived this morning. Hurrah!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8091605.stm Chased off by protestors!

Nope. It's historical fiction and follows the life of a character called Daniel Waterhouse, a puritan and one of the founder members of the Royal Society, back when science and the scientific method was first being thrashed out. The other major characters are Jack, a Vagabond, and Eliza, a concubine in Constantinople - or at least that where she starts. The major supporting characters are Newton, Robert Hooke, Liebniz, Wren, Charles II, Louis XIV, Cromwell and many other major figures of history from those exciting times. The books cover the Cromwellian revolution, the reformation, the great fire (of London) amongst many other things, all intertwined around the three characters as they influence and are influenced by the political and financial upheavals that characterised European expansion and World events in that time period. As I said, the first one starts off well, but bogs down... the 2nd and third are joys to read.

I tend to agree, but it's out there, 1st google result. It wasn't my intention to provoke an argument viz. the rights and wrongs of that, I was using it to illustrate why it was not surprising West Yorkshire an Humberside elected the idiots.

Nearly at the end of the Baroque Cycle from Stephenson. The first one was heavy going, but the latter two are fantabulous.

Yes, it sucks to live here sometimes. But not everyone is a facist! In fact, since someone kindly outed the BNP membership and posted it online, you can find out via a fairly up-to-date list (circa 2008 iirc) if there's anyone in your area. http://wikileaks.org.uk/leak/bnp-membership-list.txt There's quite a few in Pudsey, just up the road from me, also in Bramley, 2 in my area (all middle class areaa)... in fact there's a staggering number in Yorkshire. Sadly, I was all ready for this. I voted against, but I was not enough.

That animation is fabulous. It too reminds me of why I like Star Wars.

...and you lot can have first go if you like: Trauma Centre: Under The Knife Metroid Prime Hunters Hotel Dusk 215 Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Brain Training 1 Mariokart Let me know. They will be going up on ebay tomorrow.

Man, Westwood just makes me want to scream whenever I see him. You know when he got shot a few years back? That was him finally breaking out from underneath this protection racket some Brixton lads had him under for years. Fucking Lamer. He's a fucking prick.

Yeh, Nearly did the 10 days off thing when we went to Gent festival and North sea Jazz fest, but all the single day tickets had gone, and I didn't want to buy a block one.

By the way, has there been anything about 'The Outsider' from Braben and co.?

This generally, I agree with. Very few games keep me interested much now.

Jesus. This is why they don't usually let engineers do presentations...and why didn't they get a flunky who had good co-ordination? Nice tech though - the drawing looked good.

I was interested in Natal until, at the bottom of the EG write-up, Molyneux is reported as working on some shite or other,

I'm more interested in the Telltale stuff. I've played the originals too much so I can remember a lot of the puzzles etc, so there's no attraction for the special edition.