Sniper: Ghost Warrior is one of those quiet games that probably passed you by. Yet it’s a hidden gem. Sure, it doesn’t have any major innovations or ground-breaking elements, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t clever and fun to play. Stealth and guile is the name of the game. You spend the majority of the [...]
Archive for May, 2011
LA Noire – talking heads and gunplay
Posted: 27th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in ReviewsTags: faces, gta, LA Noire, people, places
There’s been plenty of hype and chatter around the new Rockstar game LA Noire in recent weeks. The critics gave it rave reviews and thoroughly good reports all round and you can easily see why. However, I’m not jumping on the “LA Noire is amazing” bandwagon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad game, [...]
Pound pinching with thetrainline.com
Posted: 24th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting DiscoveriesTags: saving money, £££
I’m just about to start a new job which requires an hours worth of commuting on the train. This is fine, as I’ll happily blog, tweet and game the time away. However, the cost is rather a pain. Monthly season passes directly from National Express are priced at around £350 a month. If I bought [...]
Site Speed and SERPs
Posted: 19th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: seo, SERPS, site speed
Google believe that site speed is important. It was recently announced that a site’s load speed can have an impact on search engine ranking positions. Many designers and ‘web’ people are aware of this. Interesting articles over at Distilled (Site Speed For Dummies Part 1- Why Bother and Site Speed For Dummies Part 2 – [...]
Do you know Becky? She’s chubby and rides a bike…
Posted: 19th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: random
Yesterday while I was beavering away waxing the car, a people carrier pulled up and parked across my drive. I gave them a look that says “WTF are you doing?” assuming they were something to do with our neighbours (whose friends always inconsiderately park across our driveway…) A young women gets out with a bunch [...]
BRINK – it’s not just fancy hats and parkour
Posted: 15th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in ReviewsTags: BRINK, fun, objectives, team game
BRINK was released on Friday. I was so enthusiastic about its release that I stayed up until 3 am, just to wait for the launch and get a taste of the action. Up again at 8am, I dashed to the PC to get back to the action. That’s the short story, over the last 3 [...]
I’m not loving 2011 so far…
Posted: 10th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: having a baby
We’ve just come back from the hospital and further (intimate) scans. Poor wifey has been poked and prodded and given blood like it was going out of fashion. All current signs are we’ve lost our baby (if you could call it that at this stage). One of those things I guess. Could happen to anyone. [...]
Humans.txt
Posted: 10th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting DiscoveriesTags: http://www.google.com/humans.txt
You’ve got to love Google. They’ve got a good sense of humour, even with serious things like hiring new staff. Google.com/humans.txt currently contains this little nugget which would appeal to geeks out there… Google is built by a large team of engineers, designers, researchers, robots, and others in many different sites across the globe. It [...]
Is superstition nonsense?
Posted: 6th May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: ectopic pregnancy
Is superstition nonsense? Of course it is. However, sod’s law probably isn’t. Once we found out we were pregnant, I was rather excited and wanted to tell everyone. My wife said we shouldn’t in case anything happened, then you have the heartache of telling everyone. I dismissed her as superstitious and daft. That sort of [...]
Eccentricity at its finest
Posted: 2nd May 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: bob the budgie
This is our budgie, Bob. He likes to sit on heads. He loves to preen hair. He’s loveable, bless him. Of course, it does make you look a tad eccentric with a budgie sitting on your head, but then who would know? Unless someone posted a picture of it on the internet…