Uncle Andy's Blog

Oh, Hello there!

Andy G — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:25:39 +0000

After many, many months of neglecting my blog I’ve decided it deserved my attention again.
There isn’t much to put in this tiny update but I thought I’d best get the ball rolling.

My good friend recently started drawing a lot and the work is coming out very impressive, looks like this is the next step.

So, there you have it.

A nice short film that is sooo true.

Andy G — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:05:23 +0000

Watched this a short while ago from Reddit.com (as usual) and thought it was worth blogging about so more people can see what it seems to be like when you’re old and very computer illiterate.

Great piece of film, highly recommended.

OS-X Box

Andy G — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:11:32 +0000

Found this pretty cool video linked on reddit.com of a guy who’s made a lovely OS X booting pc system in an old school developers Xbox case.
Really nice work on both the PC and the filming.

EDIT: Copyright restrictions disable linking of this file, just watch it on youtube instead.

Modern Warfare 2 – Potential Fail?

Andy G — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:20:46 +0000

It’s pretty obvious that the console version of this game will be a big hit, and it’s also becoming increasingly obvious that Activision already realise this by somewhat appearing to boycott the PC version.

A number of petitions have surfaced (including one 180, 000-strong against infinity wards lack of dedicated server support in the game) against some pretty odd choices made by the developers concerning multiplayer. The main issue in my opinion is the fact the game doesn’t use dedicated servers like we see on the more popular pc games such as Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, and Call of Duty 4.

Instead people are now getting the impression that the game will be using a system not dissimilar to how Xbox Live handles multiplayer and PC gamers will not be able to choose the best servers on location and ping.

I guess only time will tell if this issue will be rectified or whether it’s actually a good idea anyway, perhaps to reduce hacks etc? who knows.

Facebook chat emotes (slightly different than usual)

Andy G — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:27:36 +0000

Some little and different chat emotes for facebook chat (when it works) just type the stuff in bold to get them to show.

– Robot - : |]

– Shark – (^^^)

– Penguin – <(“)

– One of the Beatles? - :putnam:

Mmmm plastic food.

Andy G — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:45:27 +0000

Just saw a video on BBC news about plastic food, it’s used instead of or along side a standard menu in a restaurant so the customer can see exactly what they’re ordering. What an ace idea i’d love to be able to see how big my steak will be or my massive pie, England needs to adopt this idea.

Link Here

Or check out my flickr feed to the right for some pics of plastic food sent to me by Tat!

“Yeah, i’ll probably watch that next month or something…”

Andy G — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:25:02 +0000

I’ve recently found a cool app that allows you to download DRM free television programmes from BBC’s iPlayer website.

The app is created by a clever programmer/developer chap who’s programme makes the iPlayer website think that it’s being visited by an iPhone or ipod touch and therefore serve up a DRM free .mov version of its programmes. The beauty of it is the .mov files will play straight on your PC (and also ipod touch or iphone) with no 7 day limit.

Check it out here.

Darth Vader has feelings too

Andy G — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:50:45 +0000

Fancy dress and party website, www.Escapade.co.uk, have recently posted a funny as hell video advertising their fancy dress outfits. It shows a romantic scene between Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper …. lol , watch it here.

ROBOGEISHA trailer!!!!

Andy G — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:14:10 +0000

Well folks the film we’ve all been waiting for will be here in 2010…Robogeisha.

Just watch the vid, and worship the movie delight that is Robogeisha!!!! (with what sounds like a lawsuit from paul mccartney for the sound track)

Will’s Rant – Radio 5 Live

Andy G — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:11:29 +0000

My long time uni friend Will recently carried on his usual antics and rang in a BBC Radio 5 show and did an in character rant of some Norwich fella The animation is someone elses work and it compliments it great, so well played! Great stuff!