Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
For those of us unable to make it to Germany for Oktoberfest I may have stumbled across the next best thing… Brewfest. One minor problem though, it’s in Azeroth, so you’re going to need a World of Warcraft account. Once you’ve got that sorted, head to the beer garden outside the dwarven capital city Iron [...]
Friday, September 25th, 2009
The one thing I really love about looking after a website is checking out the visitors statistics. Since the dawn of the pickle, people have found many weird and unusual ways to make their way here, and to date, 2009 has proven to be no exception. Here are ten of the more bizarre search terms [...]
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
It’s common knowledge that World of Warcraft is crack for nerds, which is why this video is so LOL I think it caused me to LMAO. I actually think this scene may well have played out, somewhere out there in the real world. Pause for thought while I got AFK. WPvideo 1.10
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
If you are in, or around, Melbourne this weekend you may want to head down to Federation Square for the global launch of the latest driving game for the iPhone. Unlike a lot of iPhone applications doing the rounds at the moment, the CityGT game is available for free. In what is being billed as [...]
Friday, July 24th, 2009
For some reason this afternoon I started singing “Cities of Gold”, my own interpretation of the “Mysterious Cities of Gold” theme song. Raise your hand if you watched Cities of Gold as a kid… Cities of Gold was one of my favorite cartoons from the 80′s. It was set in the 1500′s and followed the [...]
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Raise your hand if you remember the 1980′s cartoon Silverhawks… Even though it wasn’t the longest running series in history, it still occupies a special place in my heart. As a young fella, I wanted to be able to sprout metal wings and fly. Amateur psychologists can make of that what they will. For those [...]
Monday, July 6th, 2009
I’m currently investigating a number of options for setting up a basic e-commerce site. My first inclination was to try and push the limits of WordPress. There are a number of shopping cart plugins that I could use to make it happen, however, recently I’ve discovered another open source e-commerce solution, Magento. The advantage that [...]
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The first Left 4 Dead first person shooter on the Xbox 360 was a cracker of a game. Stupid, mindless, fun. If the teaser trailer for Left 4 Dead 2 is anything to go by, it looks like its makers have upped the ante in terms of splatter and potential for gore. The apparent introduction [...]
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
So you spend all day in a stuffy office, it’s hot, you’re hungry and you need to tell the world all about it. You need to “Tweet” it… but you don’t want your boss to bust you on Twitter. Here’s a more than handy solution – Spread Tweet. Basically Spread Tweet allows you to follow [...]
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Today I have some late night TV infomercial gold to share with you. If you’ve already seen this, please feel free to skip straight to the parody version. For those unfamiliar with the Snuggie, it is an innovative powerhouse of a product, it’s a blanket… with sleeves! Glorious. The Snuggie is designed to keep your [...]
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Here’s an interesting little bit of information I stumbled across while randomly surfing through wikipedia this evening. It relates to World of Warcraft, so nerds can rejoice. For those unfamiliar with the game, your character can pick up diseases and/or curses when battling the enemy. Like in the real world, these things can be a [...]