All entries for December 2006
December 22, 2006
Slow Motion is Fun
I particularly like the way the water keeps its shape for a moment after the balloon is popped…
22 Dec 2006 13:00
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December 21, 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6200745.stm
If you don’t want to know what the final Harry Potter book will be called, don’t read this post’s title…
21 Dec 2006 20:57
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Gadgets!
I want all of these!
21 Dec 2006 13:00
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Decimalisation
Are there any currencies that are actually decimal – where the main unit is divided into 10ths rather than 100ths (a “centimal” currency?), or 1000ths in some cases?
21 Dec 2006 02:07
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December 20, 2006
We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident
I’m sure I’ve seen this before, but I can’t for the life of me think where; I want to say Bowling for Columbine, but I’m not sure…...
20 Dec 2006 13:00
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Wii Played
Follow-up to Wii Play from The randomness of tomorrow, today!
Wii Play is a lot of fun, especially since I can now have two players…
“Find Mii” is a bit tedious, and I’m just crap at “Pose Mii”, but the Duck Hunt and the cow racing ones are lots of fun. The fishing was a bit awkward – I need some practice on that one. The tank one is quite good and, although possible with just a Remote, it’s definitely easier with a Nunchuk. “Table Tennis” is fun, too. The pool game is great, and makes a nice relaxing game because it’s pace is very much set by you and not the game. I also quite like “Laser Hockey”, even though I’m crap at it…
So, in conclusion, and in no particular order:
| Mini Game | What I think | How I do |
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| Table Tennis | Good | Decent |
| Laser Hockey | Good | Crap |
| Fishing | Awkward | OK |
| Find Mii | Simple, but not always easy… | OK |
| Pose Mii | OK | With the speed, I keep changing the wrong way… |
| Shooting | Very Good | Very Well |
| Billiards | Very Good | Decent |
| Charge! | Fantastic | Who cares how well you do? It’s hilarious! |
| Tanks | Good | I keep getting killed, but it’s fun |
Basically, if you don’t have Wii Play and you want another Wiimote, buy it; it’s only a little more expensive than just a Remote, but it’s a decent amount of fun for your trouble…
20 Dec 2006 00:40
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December 19, 2006
Word of the Day
Follow-up to Word of the Day from The randomness of tomorrow, today!
Compos Mentis, n, insane fertiliser.
19 Dec 2006 17:16
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Wii Forecast Channel
I woke up this morning (well, this afternoon technically…) to find my Wii pulsing blue with a message from Nintendo announcing the launch of the Forecast Channel.
The update worked fine, and the Forecast Channel itself is brilliant. I haven’t read much about it, but I assume it uses the Wii’s 24-hour Internet access to download details as they become available, rather than the Shop which downloads them as you request them.
I’ve just spent a few minutes playing around and it’s a brilliant interface; nice clear layouts and other such factors you’d expect from a Wii Channel. The globe is a lot of fun; it’s surprisingly smooth; you grab it and drag, and it just glides beautifully – no jerks and no thinking.
One minor annoyance is the menus at the top and bottom; you hover over them to stop them being transparent and get them in a state where you can use them (although many of the features can be performed with Wiimote buttons (zooming, for example, using the obvious buttons). This can get a little annoying if you’re wildly dragging the globe around, enjoying just how damn well it works, and accidentally clicking on things….
This wouldn’t be that much of a problem with gentle, measured use, but since I don’t recall the B trigger being used, holding it to bring up the menus would solve this.
One thing I was really impressed with is that I can actually set my location to Durham. Durham very rarely seems to appear of wider-area maps despite being both a County and it’s “capital”, which is annoying, and it’s great that it’s available here.
Finally, I think I’ve been doing physics for too long, because I was looking in the settings and I was disappointed that the temperature doesn’t have an option for Kelvin; although, to be fair the them, Kelvin rarely seems to appear in weather forecasts, so I think I can let them off…
19 Dec 2006 17:12
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Wii Play
Follow-up to OK, so I lied; I couldn't help myself… from The randomness of tomorrow, today!
Wii Play has just arrived from Amazon, so I finally have two Wiimotes (Gamestation had distribution problems wth both Wiimotes and Wii Play).
I’ll let you know what I think of the game when I’ve had a chance to play it…
19 Dec 2006 13:32
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Now that's how you build a plane…
You know it makes sense…
19 Dec 2006 13:00
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