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You are an 80s expert You never confuse New Order with the Pet Shop Boys You know which classical musician Falco rocked When it comes to 80s music, you Just Can’t Get Enough!

How Much Do You Know About 80s Music?

XBox Live Arcade have just added my favouritest game from my teenage years - Gyruss.  Many hours were spent in the arcade, not really getting very far with the game, and many 20 cents went the way of the machines.

Funnily enough, at the moment I’m getting to roughly where I used to get to all those years ago.  I guess now I can learn all the patterns and progress all the way back to Earth…

For those young’uns with a games console, have a look at this article which gives a bit of history of consoles from 1979 to today, and also some of the adverts used to promote them. (Mainly from an American perspective.)

PCWorld magazine article

You can also see a similar article about computers, including the classic 1984 Apple advert.

PCWorld magazine PC article

The current craze that’s sweeping the web… Qwyzzle

I have all the answers but I won’t spoil it for anyone.

Have some fun with The Boneless Girl

No humour this Thursday, just a good optical illusion.

Check it out!

Found this quiz at Quiz farm (link at bottom) - via the freespurge blog

You scored as Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye. The Mechanic. You are a natural mechanic, and you are far too sweet and cheerful to live out here. How you can see the good in everyone around you boggles the mind occasionally. Still you don’t seem to be any crazier than that, and it is a nice kinda crazy.

Which Serenity character are you?
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An old term still being used….
A current advert that struck me, Star Wars - Revenge Of The Sith - The Video Game. How old a term is ‘Video Game’? It must date back to when games first came out. Funny how 20 years later it is still being used - albeit not very often. Usually computing terms come and go very quickly, so it’s odd how one term can stay around for ages.

Just added a new ‘toy’ to my website - a guestmap. Kind of funky, and I still need to tweak it a bit, but feel free to give it a go! Removed - too limited.

Since I got moaned at for not posting as often as some blogs…

While off work this week, I managed to watch The Rutles. It’s basically a parody of the pop career of the Beatles, the Rutles being known as the Pre-fab Four. It closely follows the release of the Beatles songs, albums and their films, but obviously puts a humurous twist on them - eg Let It Rot, Tragical History Tour. Of course as it was made in the late 70’s, many of the stars look very young - eg Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd! While it was funny in parts, I don’t think it was one of the best by half of the Python team (Eric Idle, Michael Palin). Also this week, Forza Motorsport is out for the XBox, so if I don’t post for a while, you know what I’m doing . With over 200 cars to unlock and race, it’s gonna take forever. After an afternoon of playing, I’ve only done 3% of one part of the game.