Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Free Sounds

Gawd bless 6Music and the marvellous Andrew Collins.

Once again I've won a stack of CDs from them for answering a ridiculously easy question - how cool is that?

This time around they've sent me:

  • Incubus - Megalomaniac [Promo]: Only the single track on this one, but an absolute corker. Sounds like I'm going to have to invest in the album when it comes out.
  • Razorlight - Stumble & Fall [Promo]: I'd never heard of this band before, but from the single track on this CD I'll keep a look out for them.
  • Lambchop - Selections from the albums AWCMON and NOYOUCMON: Absolutely brilliant stuff. It's a bit different to 'Is A Woman' - the sound is much more expansive and string laden. If the rest of these two albums match the quality of the six tracks here, they're going to be classics.
  • The Bumblebeez - Red Printz EP: I don't know quite what I was expecting with this one. I suppose with track titles like "Pink Fairy Floss" and "Fluffy White Rabbit", something from the Warp stable sprang to mind. Unfortunately its not. Messy, incoherent sub-par pub band stuff.
  • Paul Jackson & Steve Smith - The Push (Far From Here): Obviously produced on a shoestring, this seems to be an attempt at an indie/intelligent dance crossover. Not half bad.

Right, now lets see if there are any more competitions to win...

 Thursday, January 15, 2004

Hamster Ball

OK, it's official. This is the best Marble Madness inspired game ever. Truly awesome!

One of the threads over at www.remakes.org has a link to the beta version of Hamster Ball which I tried out last night; jesus it's addictive. Do yourselves a favour, download the beta version and give it a try. You won't regret it.

 Monday, January 12, 2004

Blank Expression

It's all happening today; my new FX5600 Ultra card has just decided to give up the ghost. Great.

Luckily I've still got my old Ti4200 card that I hadn't got around to selling on eBay just yet, so I'm still up and running. Hopefully the FX5600 can be repaired/replaced in time for Half Life 2... ;-)

First Steps

Bec just called me to say that Zak has just taken his first steps on his own. Why is it that things like this always happen when I'm not around? :)

The Naked Coder

I hope to God that Don Box isn't suggesting that he's going to be coding in his birthday suit in public!