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Saving humanity isn’t a game… or is it? Pandemic reviewed
As a person who enjoys playing board games with friends, I though’t I’d review one of my favourite games: Pandemic Plot: You are a group of scientists from the Atlanta’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC), who must travel the globe to research, diagnose and produce cures for 4 deadly diseases that are gripping the worlds population. [...]
Carcassonne – a tale of Knights, Robbers and Farmers!
This article is about the 2-5 player board game Carcassonne and not a 19th century French city. If you have come expecting the latter I do apologise. Plot: Named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, players must strategically place randomly drawn tiles so that they can increase their cities, roads or farms; [...]
Blender: Mine Shaft
This was quite a quick render of an abandoned mine shaft I thought I’d start one lunch time. Its only my 3rd ever finished Blender scene render but I’m rather happy with the final outcome. Posted here to get some genuine feedback, preferably a little more than just ‘its nice’ or ‘I dont like it’. [...]
Film: In Time
— SPOILER FREE REVIEW BY REQUEST — The moment I saw the trailer for this I knew I’d end up seeing it at the cinema. The concept of the film is fairly cool and no similar films immediately jump to mind. In ‘In Time’ once you’ve reached the age of 25 your body stops growing [...]
FTP Connection failure with EAI_NONAME error
While trying to use FileZilla FTP client the other day, I copied in a clients details to the configuration panel, hit connect and was shown the following error: Status: Resolving address of XYZ Status: Connection attempt failed with “EAI_NONAME – Neither nodename nor servname provided, or not known”. Error: Could not connect to server Now [...]
Film: Contagion (Review of 4/5)
Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns home from a business trip in Hong Kong feeling tired and ill. Thinking its nothing more than jet lag she continues on as normal but hours later collapses in her husband’s hands (Matt Damon). Beth never recovers and quickly dies in hospital with a medical mystery hanging over what happened. [...]
Goodbye TweetDeck! Hello… umm TweetDeck?!
Okay so as a regular Linux and Twitter user, I have had to live with TweetDecks partially compatible program for quite some time. I’ve tried using the Twitter site (dull and featureless) and Hootsuite (didn’t agree, felt disengaged), but I’ve always returned to Tweetdeck. Don’t get me wrong, the boys over at TweetDeck have built [...]