tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36193852012-01-23T04:20:37.913ZI think you'll find I'm universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult.paperghostnoreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619385.post-59675359629270372402012-01-23T04:20:00.001Z2012-01-23T04:20:37.921Z

Oh hey, it's looking at pictures of food time. Read this blog entry when starving for maximum annoyance. There's no real way to take a picture of this without making it look like "some stuff on some chicken", but the KFC Ala King Supreme bowl is amazing. A ton of rice, two decent slabs of chicken and THIS SAUCE, MAN. Next up, I've been munching on this frozen yoghurt stuff from Red Mango. I

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My latest trip to Manila (via Dubai) went horribly wrong within seconds of arrival. Here's a picture of the departure lounge at Dubai, for no good reason whatsoever. Protip: if you arrive in Manila with a Visa, don't assume the guy on the booth knows what he's doing. I'd heard the usual horror stories of people sorting a visa out, arriving but not showing it to the immigration guy and being

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Zappos.com and 6pm.com are sending out the "we got pwned, change your info" emails. Not everybody can view them, however - if you're outside the US, then you have a good chance of seeing this:  Region locked infosec alerts? Uh, yeah I don't think that's the smartest thing I've ever seen. What if you're a customer of theirs but on the road, for example? You can't see the blog incident linked

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The above image speaks for itself really, but this time around I did damage to my wallet with the following: Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas, Mount & Blade Warband and Fire & Sword, Shogun 2, Unreal And Quake packs, Hacker Evolution Duality, Defcon, Left 4 Dead 2 and the Hitman pack. I also got Swords and Soldiers as a freebie from the coal crafting thing. Thank goodness it's over for

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No trip to Hong Kong would be complete without a visit to the below locations. Here's a handy diorama, or whatever you call them. No idea. The big round object is the Hong Kong Space Museum. The large building south of that is the Art Museum, and the triangle shaped thing that is clearly a Star Trek vessel in disguise is the Cultural Centre with a gallery, music events and a shop that has a

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I have no idea what ingredients make specific potions in Skyrim. At least that was the case until I heard about Potionapp.com. Enter your ingredients and it'll tell you what horrible mess will come out the other end. Sweet.

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I'm about seven hundred years late to the party but I've started playing Oblivion on the PC and am taking random screenshots of my journey through the place that isn't Skyrim. Link here.

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Given the choice of staying in Chungking Mansions or Mirador Mansion, the clear winner was Mirador due to it not popping up as often in the "something horrible has happened" news report stakes. Mirador is a huge slab of apartments all looped around a building that's seen better days. Slap bang in the most interesting part of Tsim Sha Tsui, dodging people selling fake watches and working out

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Recently I went to Hong Kong, and a fun time was had by all (apart from the bit where it was freezing up a mountain, that sucked). Here are some random shots of Istanbul airport, because look at this guy. Every now and again he took out a big metal stick thing and did something to the ice cream with it. I'd suggest "stir", but it all looked a bit more complicated than that. Elsewhere, I

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I decided to do a straightforward bounty mission in Skyrim: go kill a collection of bandits at Silent Moons Camp. Fortunately I saved just before attempting the mission, and so it came to pass that Save 348 is now my favourite save of all time. Stealth would be the name of the game here; kitted out in light armour, my silent sneaky boots and a shedload of invisibility potions I had this all

paperghostnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619385.post-9118429191467384922011-11-08T11:56:00.001Z2011-11-08T11:56:41.255Z

One of the most baffling changes I've ever seen made to a service. What change? Well, Twitter have canned the (shocking useful) Retweet column in favour of...well...this. Yes, you too can watch random pictures of heads pop up in a stream filled with messages about person x following person y. Hooray for the all new Activity column! Why would I care about someone following somebody else?

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I picked it up, only to find the much touted "Back to Karkand" maps aren't actually included as DLC codes - no, they're included as DLC "coming soon" flyers because they don't actually arrive until sometime in the future (as the flyer put it, "when it is released". Thanks for that). I mean crap, at least give me a horrifically overpriced statue, half a soundtrack or a set of night vision goggles

paperghostnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3619385.post-29845618698412057822011-10-28T07:51:00.001Z2011-10-28T07:51:04.454Z

Oh dear, it seems people with the expensive editions of Deus Ex are rather annoyed that the Augmented Edition version only has a handful of songs. I'm a little dissapointed at how limited the Augemented Edition's soundtrack is. It's missing a ton of good tracks, almost all of the ambient music, most of the combat music, the only boss theme on it is the weakest one (Yelena's track is fantastic

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I've done a lot of conferences, and I expect a lot of things to go wrong when I'm on the move. It just does. However, I expect the conference itself to be organised and have their act together. People pay a frankly terrifying amount of money to go to these events and listen to dancing monkeys like me ramble about things for 40 minutes or so. The way I see it, the best I can do is give them

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I got to take part in my first ever earthquake drill. It's basically a fire alarm drill with one entertaining addition but we'll get to that later. For now, all you need to know is some dude ushers you out of your room, then out through the fire escape door - slamming it shut behind you, with the sound of a lock catching. I'm not sure what would happen if I suddenly needed to go back the way I

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If you arrive in the Philippines without a Visa in advance, you get 21 days as a freebie before you have to clear off (and let me make something clear - they do NOT count the day of arrival as one of the days, it starts with your first full day). The web is stuffed full of contradictory and plain unhelpful infodumps with regards what to do during the visa application. Worse, the various official

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I think someone played a little too much Dead Space...

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I doubt I caught every strange / odd / humorous / wtf name in this place, but let's see what I did end up with. First, a vendor that clearly based their name on the WWE wrestling song from the 90s, Slam Jam: You can see what they did there (along with mashing up spam and jam in one terrifying mixture, hopefully). Taking it to the next level (literally, because it was on the next floor up) is

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While staggering around the SM Mall of Asia, a little food stall called Crazy Crepes popped up on the horizon and said "Eat some of our stuff". I hate to let people down, especially when they're throwing food like this at me: You can watch them make these glorious slices of nommage in front of you, and yes - the food you end up with actually does look like the items on display. In

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On the same day this dude hiked his way up the tallest peak in Indochina, I was wandering around one of the biggest malls in the World because that's just how I roll. A lot of these pictures are blurry to some degree, as a huge mall with anything up to 200,000 people marching through it in a day under poor lighting conditions isn't ideal (and my camera sucks - yes, I'm blaming the tools) but in a

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So hey, the seats in the cinema were the greatest cinema seats I've ever parked my behind in. The ones in the more expensive places are even better, aparently. The ones here were like big spongy things that tilted back and looked for all the World like they'd been ripped out of a jeep or something. The arm rests are amazingly hard and uncomfortable, though not enough to detract from the joy my

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I had a bit of a surprise when I wandered into a shopping mall, due to the escalators not having any steps. As it turns out, this is so you can move between floors with a large shopping trolley. In case you were wondering, the trolleys lock magnetically to the escalator so you can't "accidentally" squish someone below you with ten gallons of coke or whatever. They only get four stars out of five

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Or not. Probably "not". Apparently you have to walk slowly crossing roads, because if you speed up the drivers take that as the sign to speed up too. How about I just construct a cannon and fire myself across in that instead?

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I'd like to say I had the best flight ever with China Southern airlines, and that my stay at Guangzhou airport was the most fun I'd had in ages. I would. However, I'd be a great big stupid liar so let's get this failtrain rolling. It all started a few months back when I booked a bunch of longhaul flight ticket things. Three airports (well, four if you count the one I end up at), three planes

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I'm sort of "meh" on hacker games really, as they all pretty much do the same thing: reduce it to "click a box, watch a meter count down and then you've hacked it". Uplink is entertaining for a while, but hack one machine and you've hacked them all. Thought I'd try Duality - after ten seconds, I have a crazy mouse pattern onscreen and I've completed a level. I didn't do anything. Maybe I

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I've posted this elsewhere, but really - look at it. One of the best things with the stuff I've seen in a long time. I wanted more distance shots from the above, though - too many closeups. Let me see the whole thing already!

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I had a few whines about this game, and it seems a lot of other people have had the same problems. Step forward, useful forum post.

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I don't think anything needs to be added, really. Apart from "Wow".

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The acting isn't great, the guy playing the Joker seems to think doing a risible attempt at a laugh passes for characterisation and it has a nothing ending. Despite this, the fight sequences are straight up real life versions of those found in Arkham Asylum. And it has a Batpod. A very slow Batpod. All the same, a brilliant fanmade effort.

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15 hours in two weeks (less, actually) pretty much tells you all you need to know about Atom Zombie Smasher (£5.99 on Steam). 1) I like it. 2) It has zombies in it. 3) I get to kill millions of zombies. Atom Zombie Smasher is a cheap and entertaining top down “make the little dots move around and kill other dots” strategy / resource management effort. The pink dots are the zombies. The yellow

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http://www.humblebundle.com/ Now that you've clicked the above link, bought some games and donated your money to whoever you like (game devs, EFF, Child's Play and so on) I think this is worth looking at: We need to have a little talk, Windows users.

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Harry Potter scams, everybody! Click to Enlarge Not a fan of Harry Potter myself, but whatever. Go here and see all the stupid stuff your kids shouldn't be doing. If they are doing it, Expulsior Slapify them round the ear and send them on their way.

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Two awesome ways to shop: 1) Shopping cart with tablets built in that work with an app you download to your phone. Lots of real time shopping frolics commence! 2) Photographs of items on subway walls that you can scan with your phone, and have Tesco deliver to your door once you get in. Notice how most of the items are duplicated - they don't have to be, but then it wouldn't look like a

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Click to Enlarge Marshall Alexander does all sorts of amazing paper work. The above Bladerunner piece is the one that got me hooked, although the Monolith is my favourite. Check out his Tumblr, too. Then print stuff out and make things!

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Latest tracks by Little Dragon I'm very impressed by this band. There's a lot of additional music here, too.

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So, this is awesome.

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It's pretty rare to get both good audio and video for an Asobi Seksu gig, as they're usually covered in darkness with flashy lights or the person recording made the horrible mistake of standing within about a mile of the stage and then wonders why it sounds like a thousand ants being run over by a tank. Additionally, it contains a bunch of songs that don't typically get an airing online - in

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Or extensions or whatever you call them. Anyway, I noticed my PC has been dying a death recently, and with the launch of G+ things just got worse. I had it pointed out to me by my rather awesome co-blogger that apps / extensions / whatever all had their own processes running, even the ones that weren't on your app bar but were still enabled. Come to think of it, I had gone install crazy with the

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Everyone loves Batman. Not everyone loves a Batscam, though. You can see what I did there.  

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White Sea: Cannibal Love (School of Seven Bells Remix) by hardcandymusic This song is so awesomely awesome words fail me.

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Free music - Pink Light Probably the best song from the last album.

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Sometimes these things just come to me.

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Today we're going to talk about my ass.Stay with me on this one.See, you may think I'm an indestructible fist pumping God of destruction, but you'd only be halfway right. Bits of me get injured, damaged and occasionally fall off like everyone else.A month or so ago, I made the horrible mistake of sleeping on an airbed for a few nights placed on a hard laminate floor.Never sleep on an airbed

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News to me, but then I gave up caring about referral logs years ago.That's right kids, I JUST KEEP ON BREAKING THE RULES. Anyway, Kotaku.com.br covered my experience with a surreal glitch in Fallout New Vegas here.I also found this in my referral logs:"Why gamers opinion on FF13 is worthless". Is that you, Yoshinori Kitase? 

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A few years ago someone made a game called Lose / Lose that deleted system files if you played badly. Here's a title which slowly kills itself every time you lose a life, eventually breaking the game forever.

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Okay, so if you don't want to keep visiting the G+ website every time something remotely interesting happens, you should install this extension for Chrome. It places a little notification box on your app bar, and lets you post from anywhere on the web too which is the main plus point for me. Works like a charm so far.

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Oh look, it's a Chrome App roundup post. Because if there's one thing the world needs, it's another one of those. For anyone still awake, here comes the trainwreck. 1) ActiveInbox for GMail Organises your email brilliantly, makes it easy to keep track of everything, adds a nice "to do / waiting on / done" box on the left hand side and also reminds me to use labels for mails. 2) AdBlock Plus

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Not a very long hunt, because here they are.No Light.This Machine.Stupidly cheap, and easy to download. "Dadada" is particularly brilliant, but you can listen to everything and judge for yourselves. These are somewhat tricky to get hold of if you're not in New Zealand, because they only seem to appear on their iTunes and nowhere else. The alternative is the 3 album CD, but (like me) you probably

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If all goes well, this has autoposted to Paperghost.com from Posterous.If not, I've posted it to the GFI Labs Blog by accident and will have some serious explaining to do come Monday.Or I might just laugh about it on Twitter, who knows.

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Wow, I changed the template too. It almost looks tolerable now.

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Or, to be more accurate, lots of places. About.me Twitter Tumblr G+ Flickr Linkedin Formspring Posterous GFI Labs Blog InfoSecGamer.blogspot.com Paperghost.net Paperghost.org Paperghost.co.uk

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....yes, I know I bring the site back for a while, get bored, delete the thing, then bring it back again six months later. It's back for good this time, I swear. Honest.....

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I’ve just returned home from Boston, having taken part in one of the most interesting, original and awesome conferences I’ve ever seen. Step up Hackidcon, a conference geared towards “providing an interactive, hands-on experience for kids and their parents which includes things like staying safe online, how the internet works, manipulating hardware / software for fun, meeting law

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