Monthly Archives: October 2008

My Wii Wants Me Dead

A week ago, in a bout of fool­ish zeal for get­ting back into shape, I pur­chased Wii Fit.
I thought at the time that I had a pretty good idea of what I was let­ting myself in for. It’s a games con­sole, I told myself. How hard can it be?
As it turns out, the answer is very hard …

Fri October 17, 2008 – 13:20 | By seb | Posted in games, health | Tagged , , | Comments Off

The End of the Line

About 10 days ago we had our inter­net con­nec­tion activ­ated at Awesome Manor. It’s Be Internet’s (up to) 24Mb all-you-can eat buf­fet pack­age.
Problems, nat­ur­ally, began imme­di­ately. During the nor­mal period of line test­ing that the ADSL2+ products use to determ­ine the max­imum stable rate of the line, we saw massive instabil­ity and fluc­tu­at­ing speeds from …

Mon October 13, 2008 – 14:56 | By seb | Posted in rants | Tagged , , | Comments Off