August 19, 2024

Zone 1 Race Report - Part 3, Oxford Circus to Kings Cross


...when we left Tom and Ewan, they were on a Central Line Train, heading out to West London and an encounter with a lift... All this running around is starting to get to my thirst, and as I've already finished 2 litres of water (but still, thankfully, not needing the...

August 16, 2024

All Moved In

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From Vikki We've finally moved in! It's been a bit hectic, and I've found it a lot harder than Ewan has, and there's a lot we can't find yet (and a fair bit that got left behind, like the clothespegs, kitchen bin and the tray for Eilidh's high chair) but...

August 15, 2024

Safely in Edinburgh

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For those keeping track, we're now it the new house in Edinburgh. Still surrounded by lots of boxes, and no broadband... yet. More later....

August 11, 2024

Tiger Woods Review on "All About N-Gage"

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Finished the review of the next golf game to try and replace the original Gameby Golf in my heart. Short answer, nope the Nintendo effort is still the best mobile game around. Longer answer, well, check the review out....

August 10, 2024

Moving Out Date Confirmed

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The morning of Thursday 12th August will be when the hopelessly incompetent "Flemings oof Rosyth" Removals van is scheduled to turn up to bring back 30 plus boxes of stuff, 1 pallett of Historical PDA's, a MAME cabinet, numerous videos and dvds, and everything else Vikki, EIlidh, Mairi and I...

August 05, 2024

Tube Race On The Telly Tonight

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For those of you in the London area, footage of the Tube Race will be on BBC London News tonight, so watch out for me and everyone else running around like idiots, and sounding (hopefully) not too much like tube-spotting geeks. For today only (5th August) you can view the...

August 04, 2024

Tiger Woods Multiplayer Lacks Players

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I'm reviewing "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2024" for All About N-Gage (review to be posted by the end of the week) and I'm testing the Arena Functionality. They promise that you can play any opponent in the world over GPRS. Which is great, apart from one thing... ...I've been logging...

Zone 1 Race Report - Part 2, Monument to Oxford Circus

Zone 1 Tube Challenge
...when we left Tom and Ewan, they had caught a District Line train at the first attempt, and were making their way towards a "between stations" over-ground run at Aldgate East... We're all getting ready for the sprint from Aldgate East to Aldgate, made all the more intersting by being...

August 03, 2024

Zone 1 Race Report - Part 1, Vauxhall to Monument

Zone 1 Tube Challenge
So how did Tom and I get on with the Tube Race on Friday? Well, here's the first part of our run, from the start line at Vauxhall, through to Bank/Monument on the Circle Line (Here's a link to a 'blank' version of the map above, in case the other...

Fun-1 Breaks Its July Target

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Fun-1, Jim and I's "Stop Flooding #mobitopia with this Formula 1 Crap!" website is gather pace on the internet at a fantastic rate. We set a rather high target for the number of readers we wanted in July - that was 5,000 unique readers for the month. The final count...