Surly Wombat

End of the line, all change!

Paul — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:57:50 +0000

Tickets please… ok enough with the railway metaphors, started a new blog in the base directory of this old bucket. so head on over to www.surlywombat.co.uk if you missed it on the way in.

Hellboy 2

Paul — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:22:49 +0000

Hellboy 2

Off to see Hellboy 2 tonight, they running one night only previews couple of weeks before it offically opens. Dunno why but YAY. Loved the first one, hope this one is as good.

Empire movie votes, and top ten time!

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:10:26 +0000

Empire magazine is running a “best 500 movies ever” vote. They ask for the top ten, and since its a suitably “bloggy” type of thing to do I’m also putting mine up here.

Sometime I might say why they are what they are :).

DOSBox

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:24:30 +0000

As i write this I’m playing Warcraft, and no M not World of Warcraft. I’m playing Warcraft 2 in a little dosbox, running DOSBox.

Tides of Darkness

I’d heard about DOSBox of course, but I didn’t realise how good it is. It was really straight forward to set up - easier in fact than dos was back in the day. Get this - war2 found my sound card first try!!. I’ve got buckets of games and it’s nice to be able to dust them off.. now I just need to find my Syndicate Wars CD.

Update!

Paul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:01:08 +0000

It’s another bi-decadely update! Decided to update wordpress, have been hugely disappointed with the speed of this site, least on the admin side. I run another site on this hosting and it runs along nicely so I don’t know what the trouble is. Maybe it was just the massive amount of spam comments the db was having to keep track of, i’ve cleared them out a bit now. Frankly that is the thing that puts me off blogging the most - the admin. Maybe its time to try something other than WP or find plugins that will deal with the comment issues.

Carling Black Label

Paul — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:32:48 +0000

Cloverfie…..

Paul — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:47:07 +0000

Went off to see Cloverfield tonight, and while the film is good, I can’t give a proper opinion since I went with my brother and he got struck by “Cloverfield flu” about an hour in. While it didn’t strike me so hard, some sequences were pushing the limit on my queasy-scale, and not knowing how long was left I wasn’t about to let my brother sit on the odeon sofas indefinitely.

For people who don’t know what I’m referring to, the film was made to give the impression it was filmed by an amateur with a camcorder, complete with hand held shake. When in a cinema, that can be one hell of a big shake. Frankly I think they pushed it a little too far. Who knows, this could be the first film to get a “Special Not-as-shaky” dvd edition. Although I doubt the effect is quite so severe on a small screen.

Fancy Pants!

Paul — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:35:32 +0000

Fancy Pants 2 is a hugely addictive web based platformer, enough talk go play!

Yet another

Paul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:31:18 +0000

Another pointless video

Paul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:24:34 +0000