Jasp's Blog

As the gaming media turns all eyes towards L.A. for E3 2009, many blogs and news sites go into overdrive. While I’m not at E3 myself, and have absolutely no way of finding out information that isn’t already published elsewhere, I thought I’d still do my best to produce stories that I can guarantee you [...]

I first played around with the political compass a few years ago, and was vaguely worried that I may have betrayed my old self, and have darted to the far right without quite realising it. As it happens I haven’t, and indeed I think the score is somewhat more extreme in the other direction than [...]

In attempting to ‘combat terrorism’ the British government has been promoting fears of its own, namely fears of terrorism. All too often this has been in the form of encouraging the British public to be suspicious of everything around them, even going as far as promoting fear of photographers. Most disturbingly, this has been accompanied [...]

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Bah, something is very tragic about blogging about twitter on a Friday night.

You find yourself referring to friends as @twittername
You find yourself constrained to speaking in sentences of a maximum of 140 characters.
Before recounting an interesting fact you read in the newspaper you find yourself saying RT @guardiannews
When in an accident, you reach for a [...]

Anyone who has played a game on the Xbox 360, or has looked at a growing number of PC Games, will be familiar with the concept of achievements. Achievements are a way of meta-gaming, giving the player a reward outside of the game, for completing various in game tasks. These tasks can vary from simply [...]

Oh dear, and to be frank this post isn’t going to make things any better. I was playing arround on the website Wordle, which generates a tag cloud from any text. I ran my blog through the program, and company names seem to dominate somewhat. I’m not quite sure how MOO became so prominent, I’m [...]

My last blog entry briefly mentioned the game Dwarf Fortress, and as promissed I thought I’d go in to a bit more detail.
Dwarf Fortress is a freeware indie game, that comes in at just 5.3 MB, that’s just 37 centipeggles for those familiar with Rock, Paper, Shotgun. However inside this small package you have one [...]

Inspired by a messageboard meme:
Wallet:
* University ID Card (in Date)
* University ID Card (Expired)
* Work Access Card (Disintergrated)
* Work Access Card (Intact)
* Misc Student Discount card (Never Used, probably expired)
* Virgin Student Card (Always forget to use. Probably expired as Virgin are now Zavvi)
* Buisness Card for StarHotels Florence (18 months since I stayed there)
* [...]

Today I managed to rope myself into going to see a ballet, and despite it being ‘Edward Scissorhands’ I still half expected something pretentious, inaccessible and dull. Still, I thought, you’ve got to try these things once. Although I doubt anyone has been on their deathbed thinking, ‘Damnit, if only I’d seen a ballet,’ I’m [...]