At the Custom PC Christmas lunch the other week, we ended up chatting about when we first came to regard internet access as an essential component of a PC. For me it was fairly late, as it took ages to get a broadband connection set up when I came to London after finishing my MAContinue reading “Some thoughts on keeping track of things”
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This year’s Mince Pie Recommendation…
As promised, this year’s annual Custom PC Mince Pie Megatest is up at the CPC site, here. The whole magazine team took part in the testing way back at the end of October, and the article itself was then written up in fine, fine, funny style by Slacker Hack Phil. Enjoy!
Custom PC web reading
Finally – managed to do something I’ve had my eye on doing for ages. I’ve uploaded the first CPC webreading on the Custompc.co.uk site, a regular little article that rounds up five interesting, tangentially tech related links from around the web. You wouldn’t believe how long (and how tricky) it’s taken to do this… butContinue reading “Custom PC web reading”
Christmas time, Pacman and wine
Akane is making cards tonight – here’s Pacman wishing you a ghost-free Christmas and a dot filled new year! (Factlet: Pacman is called Pacman because ‘pacu pacu’ is the Japanese way of describing the noise people make when eating)
Lost In Translation: Translator Etiquette
Pretty much all the IT hardware I see at work comes from outside the UK, and while some of it is designed in the US, a good deal comes from Taiwan. Despite the fact that I’ve met plenty of Taiwanese through work, and the fact that my Chinese doesn’t really go beyond ‘ni hao’ (andContinue reading “Lost In Translation: Translator Etiquette”
Make Your Own GeForce
The Custom PC website is quite a focus for me and all the other members of the mag team at the moment. I say focus, perhaps obsession is a better description 🙂 What we’ve currently got is based on an very old framework and it’s definitely looking and feeling creaky. While we’re planning a revampContinue reading “Make Your Own GeForce”
The Mince Pies Are Back!
Shockingly, it’s that time of the year again. Well, actually, no it’s not. It’s not even been Halloween yet. But at Custom, we’re well into work on Issue 40, which comes out at the end of November, making it our Christmas issue! As well as reviewing performance PC hardware, every year we do a round-upContinue reading “The Mince Pies Are Back!”
Ghosts and Goblins and difficulty
Until now, fingerprints have been the most deadly threat the super-shiny PSP has had to face. Now, it is wrath. The frustrated wrath of a player of Ultimate Ghosts n’ Goblins. Man, it’s tough… but strangely compelling, too: “So why did I keep on playing? Partly it was because I didn’t want to write anContinue reading “Ghosts and Goblins and difficulty”
Oasis Masterplan video, directed (sort of) by L. S. Lowry
I’ve always had a soft spot for Oasis. Partly this is just becuase I was the right age when they first appeared, but I loved the music, too. I remember getting Definitely Maybe with money from my 15th birthday and sitting in the car in Milton Keynes while my Mum had gone into the station,Continue reading “Oasis Masterplan video, directed (sort of) by L. S. Lowry”
A Trip To A Real Army Surplus Store
The weather’s turned grim, so the following sentence already seems very old and dated, yellowing around the corners: it was a busy end to the summer. I went to loads of events at the London Design Festival and blogged about them for Treacle Down, including trying my hands at a massive paint-by-numbers installation and checkingContinue reading “A Trip To A Real Army Surplus Store”
The Wired Jester 