Jan 142010
 

I liked my little Samsung NC10. Bought just before Christmas 2008, it was mostly everything the reviews said it would be: small, reasonably powerful, reasonably easy to use, good battery life, and most importantly cheap – especially as I managed to get mine for £250 from Amazon, at a time when the RRP was about 50 quid more.

It lasted until a whole week after the warranty expired before dying on me. The reason for its untimely demise? Bad Lid Design (probably).

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Jan 062010
 

In general I like Amazon, but this made me chuckle. Would I like to accessorise my oil heater with this fine range of… other heaters?

Amazon email - accessorize your purchase

They’ve never asked me to accessorise anything before. Good place to start…



Dec 012009
 

asciiportalASCIIpOrtal, the free and funky game by Joe Larson, has been entered for the Independent Game Festival (IGF) 2010 awards.

Why do I/why should you care?

  • ASCIIpOrtal is a very playable little puzzle game with a great sense of atmosphere
  • It’s free and has some nice little game mechanics and suchlike
  • I did the sounds and music

Check it out at  www.cymonsgames.com/asciiportal and if you have any strong positive opinions, make noise about it and let’s see if we can keep the profile nice and high and IGF judge-visible :]

For more info about the music, go here (work in progress page with some additional downloads).

Nov 132009
 

Put through my door today. I wonder. Is it just Essex, or most of England?

“We are all aware and fed up with the theft of bags of clothing from your doorstep. These thefts are usually conducted by gangs of foreign nationals”, it says.

b2b-clothing

I hope they’re swamped by bags and bags of unwanted “foreign national” attire.