Alex – Page 33 – The Wired Jester

It’s My Birthday!

Happy Birthday Me 🙂 Thanks to everyone who remembered, my phone has been buzzing all day with text messages (cards are SO passe!)

Custom PC Issue 36 (September 2006) is out in the shops now. The cover story sees us building a PC for the insanely low price of £250, trying a variety of methods to get half-decent components together. We scoured computer fairs, trawled eBay and checked out B-grade stock from various manufacturers. If you’re interested inContinue reading “Custom PC Issue 36”

In My Life

A lot of the time, I use this weblog to keep track of my articles, or to ramble through whatever idea is currently knocking around inside my head. So it never gets too personal, something I’m going to remedy with this post. I’ve recently bought a very shiny computer, a MacBook Pro, and as wellContinue reading “In My Life”

A Worm’s Eye View: Some site updates and more

Some brief site updates: thanks to Blogharbor support, I’ve fixed the site’s URL so that http://www.thewiredjester.co.uk works properly (i.e. it no longer just does a simple re-direct). This was done using a CNAME setting at 1 and 1, where I bought the domain from, and a quick e-mail to Blog Harbor’s support department to sortContinue reading “A Worm’s Eye View: Some site updates and more”

Who owns your virtual life?

Article number three is up at Bit-Tech, entitled ‘Who Owns Your Virtual Life?’ It’s all about the thorny issue of intellectual property rights in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, and how popular titles like World of Warcraft are engaging – or not engaging – with user-generated content. "MMO players play a significant role in creatingContinue reading “Who owns your virtual life?”

Robots, Monsters, Etc.

All my travelling recently has given me an opportunity to do a lot of reading, so the big list of books I have recently bumped off has been updated. One that doesn’t show up, becuase you can’t really ‘read’ it as such (it’s more for appreciation and chuckling purposes), is the lovelywonderful ‘Robots, Monsters, Etc.’,Continue reading “Robots, Monsters, Etc.”

Custom PC Issue 35

Issue number 35 (August 2006) of Custom PC is out now, which means the content from last month is now online, including my column. Already feels a little dated (or perhaps it’s just that I change my mind quickly?!?) – but I think I would describe AMD’s launch of AM2 differently if I was writingContinue reading “Custom PC Issue 35”

Time Is Never Time At All

Spaceman Originally uploaded by Sifter. At long last, I think my body clock is back on GMT; at the start of the month I did a week long trip to Houston, got back to the UK on Saturday morning, and then Sunday evening flew off to Taiwan for the Computex trade show. HoustonContinue reading “Time Is Never Time At All”

Nostalgia versus Final Fantasy

Column number two is now up at Bit-Tech: this time, it’s about nostalgia and whether old, great games can still be discovered in the way classic albums or films can. "If something is great, it should be great whenever you pick it up buy a fresh copy of Pepper or Kane now and they’ll stillContinue reading “Nostalgia versus Final Fantasy”

How To Make Good Coffee

The next issue of Custom PC (#34 – July 2006) is out soon and it features a wealth of good stuff (plug plug!), and one of the pieces I’ve written is a guide to Creative Commons. I’ve tried to avoid going into the morals, the whys, the wherefores of Creative Commons, IP law, DRM etcContinue reading “How To Make Good Coffee”