Comments on: Sorry

By: Amirul B Ruslan

Amirul B Ruslan — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:52:05 +0000

Heh. I finished NaNoWriMo, making it the youngest Malaysian ever to do so. It was a pain, yeah, but damn! the satisfaction.

I forced people to read my book. My godmother’s doing it now, in its printed-binded glory.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:07:04 +0000

You've seen real info on Defcon. You bastard. :) I'm on the fence until I see it in action - Introversion has yet to put a foot wrong, but I've been burned by missile-trading games before...and their AI programming's not exactly famous.

By: JohnMid

JohnMid — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:35:31 +0000

Tom, it’s a shame you’ve hit a wall with NaNoWriMo (stupidest psuedoacronym ever), but I’ll admit to being secretly relieved in a way that even professional writers (as you are now, officially, and gratz, wewt and all that to you) can stumble, if not fall, at the same hurdles that defeated me every time I tried to do something similar.

So I’d say. If you’ve got 20k-30k that would make a story you’d actually like to read youself, stuff the 50k target. Don’t let the means become the end just for the sake of it.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:53:28 +0000

I slog on with NaNoWriMo, hopeful that the ultimate satisfaction of hitting 50,000 words will be enough to offset the pain and sacrifice it’s taking to get there.

As for the BBC story, aren’t you slightly miffed that while you got your forehead in shot, Graham managed to get his whole headphone crested noggin in there?

By: Sindre

Sindre — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:56:28 +0000

Thank you for the Realplayer alternative. Finally!

I friggin loved the PC Gamer planting, man. That’s deliciously cruel of you, but still very funny.

PS:If it’s groovy with you, can I link to your blog from mine?

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:48:36 +0000

I’m settling in well!

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:50:12 +0000

This is probably too late to help people who've already read the post, but I can try! I don't have a link to your alternative media file, but I do have one to Real Alternative, which allows playing all RealMedia files without the stuffing-a-tapeworm-in-your-RJ45 bit. There also exists a "Quicktime Alternative". Though Quicktime is nowhere near as buffoonish and fascist as RealPlayer, it does like to grab some file extensions and QuickAlt allows no nags and full-screen playback. Both also include Media Player Classic - MPC is one of the top two or three video player programs available on Windows.

With a forehead like that, you should be on Star Trek.

By: Rossignol

Rossignol — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:12:59 +0000

Greatest forehead on TV!

By: craigp

craigp — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:28:30 +0000

I feel linked to.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:21:49 +0000

I could address the question of why they were interviewing Margret, but I’m still not convinced I know myself. It was in ‘relation’ to the story I cover in my This Is Hardcore column in the mag next month, in which I also explain that it’s a bit of a non-story. Eat it, BBC!