• Sony PSP purposely flawed

    Friday, Jan 28th 2005
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    I’ve always been a great fan of Sony, but after reading today’s news, I’m starting to wonder if the success and money has got the best of their egos.

    It turns out that the Sony PSP has a problem with the ‘square’ button. Because it’s positioned so close to the screen, the microswitch underneath – the thing that detects you’ve actually pressed the button – has been shifted to the side slightly. This causes the button to be less responsive than the other buttons, and it also apparently causes the button to stick occassionally. So far 0.6% of the PSP units sold (of 800,000) have been returned as faulty.

    Mr Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, says that it’s a feature and end users and developers should adapt. Good on him, I say. If you’re rich enough to be so arrogant that you believe the world will adapt to your whims, then by all means, do it.

    I would love it if I was in such a position of power. I would stop people from smoking, drinking, and eating tomatoes.

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  • posting pix

    Tuesday, Jan 18th 2005
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    I finally got Flickr working. I was using the wrong URL before, which could be the result of my being a giant gonad. Either way, it’s working now, so you can go down to my previous post to have a squiz.

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  • January update

    Thursday, Jan 13th 2005
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    It’s been over a month since I last posted, so I’ll give you a breakdown of what has happened:

  • New Year
  • Massive tsunami in some gook countries
  • I found out my mate Richard, who’s in Thailand, survived.
  • I’ve decided to start playing Warhammer 40,000 and I’m building an UltraMarines army.
  • I’m starting a pop culture/geek/gaming magazine

    The Wave

    Everybody knows about the wave that has killed over 125,000 people in Asia. Well, a friend of mine, Richard has been living in Thailand teaching English and doing IT work for the last few years.

    I was too scared to ring his mother and see if she had heard from him, so I didn’t bother. A few days ago, he updated his blog and it turns out his family went over there from New Zealand. THankfully, they went to Bangkok, so they were quite safe. Woohoo! Good on ya Rich.

    40K

    I’ve spent about $500 in the last couple of weeks on a new Space Marines army. After a lot of painting of test models, I came to the conclusion that I would just paint UltraMarines.

    My first idea was to start a chapter called Stormtroopers of Death. They would have been all white with black undersuits – a lot like Stormtroopers from Star Wars :) But white is a really difficult colour to work with. So I gave up on that.

    The 4th edition of 40K has just recently been released, so I’ve put aside my fantasy battle Undead army, and I’ll focus on building up some Marines.

    We’ll see how I go.

    The Mag

    I’ve got a name for the mag, but the dot-com name is taken and the gmail address is taken. So I’m either going to have to rename it or fork out fuckloads of cash for a .co.nz domain.

    So far I’ve got about seven people helping out, so we will probably make the projected release date of 1st March.

    More info on that as it happens.

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