DISQUS

bizarre indeed. thanks for the heads up dan. first off i thought you found my england match review was weird. :-) then again the game was.

The Lord works in mysterious ways Daniel. I certainly do hope that the Pontiff has an army of developers working studiously in San Pietro (actually they're probably what actually down in St. Peter's tomb) recoding Sims 2: Pope for Vista and making sure it doesn't need 'God rights' to run. Ooh..

I uninstalled the Beta Catalyst drivers for my ageing ATI 9700 Pro and went with the raw Vista ones and I've noticed no difference in performance. Although everything I try to play on my Vista PC that uses DirectX 9 says "are you mental? don't you realise these drivers are out of date!?". All being well come the end of the month when Vista (or 'Wista' as I imagine Chekov from Star Trek saying it) is released to the public most of these drivers will be finalised.

Now where did I put the rosary beeds?

Surely someone can't have taken the Transporter films seriously. Apparently a friend of mine is sort of related to Jason Statham and when he was dating Kelly Brook he made up a great rumour that they would have their wedding reception at our local pub!

The again my friends tend to be 'bullshitters' to say the least. Another friend tried to convince me when I was at school that his Uncle had a jet pack.

Well I saw the film the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. Craig was the bruising but convincing Bond I expected. Having enjoyed Matt Damon's Jason Bourne I wanted to see Bond be a bit more 'realistic' in terms of both stature, physique and technique. Strong, yet vulnerable to poison (aren't we all?). I'm glad he didn't actually sleep with the first girl and just seemed to 'want to get the job done'. It simply made me like the character more than the 'shagaminute' fest the last films had become. Yes it was long, (made worse by the fact that I'd drunk quite a bit before going in!) but as you say I think it all had merit.

The product placement was probably the only bit that annoyed me. How much stuff needed a Sony badge on it? Rolex watch? Of course not! But we've grown to accept this.

Ooh. Gods. 'Into the wonderful'.... Thing is I played most of these on the Amiga. So unless the insert workbench disk animation comes up before you start the game it wont feel like real nostalgia for me. :-)

That's the key isn't it? The untapped market. Gaming is coming of age. Board games aren't completely dead but were a 'family' existence. Blimey, even my Mum used to play Escape from Colditz with us when we were kids.

Computer and console gaming needs to break into that era. The backlash against 'unsociable' gaming will only increase unless someone makes gaming really fun and 'for al the family' like Nintendo have done in the past and appear to be continuing into the future.

Look at how arcade games have evolved? Shoot stuff, jump over stuff, drive stuff, fly stuff. Shoot stuff with others.. rince repeat. Then dance stuff, play musical instrument stuff, maybe even cook stuff. The tennis demo from Nintendo at E3 was marvellous. Nothing really new (and why do the new controllers remind me of paddles?) but exciting nonetheless. It's good, it's a bit different and it breaks the comfort zone of just bringing bloody sequels out! Games, movies, TV it's all freakin' sequels. My god brand has got a lot to answer for. Think Different! for crying out loud.. :-)

Anyway. Nintendo and Apple rock..

Digg was in last month's copy of Business 2.0 magazine which covered latest Web 2.0 sites and how the influence of Amazon recommendations, eBay rating etc.. defined by the user / customer group is changing how businesses approach the web.

Writely also got a mention. As did zimbra..