All quiet on the Blogging front. I should be getting on with my MA - correction, WILL be getting on with my MA very soon. In the meantime, am wasting my life awaiting the delayed-in-the-UK release of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for the Xbox.

Strong Bad rules. :)

Being a games geek, I tend to follow the development and release of certain titles via their forums service. Amongst the two or three I'm keeping an eye on at the moment - in the name of Media and Cultural Studies as much as geekery, of course (*ahem*) - is the new Tomb Raider game at Eidos Forums - Tomb Raider - The Angel of Darkness.

Lara, it seems, is in a certain amount of trouble. The game has been released to poor reviews and reports of bugginess in the US, and with UK ane European gamers - including myself - clamouring for its release, a firm date is yet to be announced by Eidos.

They're planning a trilogy of next-generation games for Lara, and, having been a fan of the series since the original, I've been looking forward to ths immensely. But there's a lot of anger amongst the fanboys against Eidos, for a) being so tardy in releasing the game, and b) allowing it to end up in such an unpolished form.

In the UK we face a dilemma - part wishing for the game to be released ASAP so we can get out eager mitts on it, but now partly hoping they'll hold it back to clean up the problems it seems to be hitting in the States.

Check the link above for more fanboy ranting...

I was alarmed to find an apparent disappearance of this page... or at least a slowdown... related perhaps to Lycos' new Ads policy?

I only wish they could trust us to incorporate the ads into the body of our sites. The text-only blog-related ads are an improvement, but the frame does naff up the look of the site. I'd be happy to build in a text-based ads bar. Maybe you can change the colours and so on... I'll check it out.

Phew, little posted for a long while. As always, this has been due to my involvement in theatrical endeavours, playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger.

Today, been working on somewhat stereotyped pictures of figures to represent academic theories, for the A2 level Comms course. Check 'em out:
The Feminist
The Postmodernist
The Marxist
The Postcolonial

Wahey! Star Wars geek fun with Star Wars Kids: Arena: Who Said It?

I got the first few wrong and then hit my stride... Mwahahaa! Fear my Geek Skillz! 8 )

Hurrah for Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahaf, your friendly Iraqi (mis)Information Minister! Since the 'end of the main combat phase' in Iraq, Mr Al-Sahaf has been absent from our TV screens.

Since the war started, and we started to see his cheerful denials on various news stations, I've been wondering what would happen to him. His possible death at the hands of the 'Coalition' forces struck home the consequences of war more than any other carefully-constructed human interest stories about civilian casualties.

A website has been started - ostensibly called We Love the Iraqi Information Minister dot com, though the domain name seems not to be registered. They, of course, are also interested in following the fate of Mr Al-Sahaf:

-- Still no reliable evidence on the fate of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf (M.S.S.)... Iranian newspaper Mardom Salari reports rumors of MSS suicide, but no substantiation.

Check out the site for some great quotes and ongoing information as to his whereabouts.

Whilst waiting for geek mates to play Dvorak with, and/or before I pressgang my girlfriend into playing :), I've developed Dino Dig - a Solitaire Dvorak Game... so I can play with myself. Hmmm....

Following on from discovering Dvorak (see below), I came across The Games Journal, with an archive of many articles on games and gaming. If you wonder why so many writers are German, there's an article on that, too...

BTW, if anyone I know is looking in, take a look at Dvorak... I'm itching to try a game...

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