Ok, maybe not, but at least I'm trying for once. By the way, I've got a week's break comming up, so if I can fit it in around moving house, I'll try and fix up the site template a bit so the images actually work...
I did promise news, so I guess I'd better provide. If you head across to eb games australian website, you will probably notice a few minor changes once you look around. For a start, we have an official release date for Wii Mario Kart - 24/04/2008. Bad news is that Brawl has been confirmed for June 2008, with no official day listed. Kinda crap, really, considering the game will have been available in Japan for more then 4 months by then.
Also, a bit on the unofficial side - well, actually a lot on the unofficial side, 'cause I don't even know who the source is. That is, I know what the source does, but have never met them. Make sense? Rumour has it that the Apple iPhone is being planned for release by Telstra in Australia some time this year. A friend of a friend, and all that crap. To be honest, it's the kind of info you could probably just make up and still probably get right, but it makes my blog feel that bit more authentic when you've got a hidden source. Despite the slight (ok, huge) flaw in the reliability, it's probably true. Feel free to guess away as to whether there will be an iPhone v2.0 with 3G, or whether Telstra will get screwed with edge.
So if I suddenly disapear, you'll know that Steve has sent Apple legal to "deal" with me :P
In terms of Apple - why can I not update to 1.1.4 of iPod Touch firmware? I've downloaded it 4 times now, and when it finishes downloading, it says "network timeout error" or some such crap and then itunes craps itself. What's with that?
Anyway, that should keep you update vultures off my back for a while :P
EDIT: And for all you nerdy arty types out there who want a change in windows decorations, check this out.
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Thursday 6 March 2008
First off, here's a little insight as to the reasons NOT to censor internet traffic. It doesn't work. Period.
While governments around the world try to regulate internet access by enforcing ISP level filtering, Pakistan has taken it to a whole new extreme. It seems that the government decided that the content of youtube was too blasphemous to bear, and so had the country's largest ISP block access to it. Problem being, is that they simply redirected traffic to one of their own servers containing a more "appropriate" website.
So now you have the world's busiest website being redirected to some outdated computer server in the back room of a Pakistani ISP. What followed was what is know as a "Denial of Service", or DoS attack. There was so many requests for youtube that it crippled the ISP to the point where they had to be taken off the internet. From what I understand from the link above, they also managed to make youtube entirely disappear from the internet for an hour or so.
Also, in other news, I have just found that palgn have the much awaited smash bros brawl listed as a 9/07/2008 (Postponed) release. I swear I should have just imported a Japanese console. That makes the release MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER JAPAN!!!
Meanwhile Wii Mario Kart is down for a 1/5/2008 release date on the same site. Guess I'm glad I also own a 360, then. For those that are interested, Wii Fit is down for 28/5/2008.
I think Nintendo need to lift their game a bit. More and more consoles are being sold on ebay, for the simple reason that there's no games for it. If they don't bring some more stuff out soon, they'll find those console shortages will clear right up. Super Mario Galaxy is a brilliant games, but it does not have infinite replay ability.
Anyway, hopefully we'll see those games soonish.
While governments around the world try to regulate internet access by enforcing ISP level filtering, Pakistan has taken it to a whole new extreme. It seems that the government decided that the content of youtube was too blasphemous to bear, and so had the country's largest ISP block access to it. Problem being, is that they simply redirected traffic to one of their own servers containing a more "appropriate" website.
So now you have the world's busiest website being redirected to some outdated computer server in the back room of a Pakistani ISP. What followed was what is know as a "Denial of Service", or DoS attack. There was so many requests for youtube that it crippled the ISP to the point where they had to be taken off the internet. From what I understand from the link above, they also managed to make youtube entirely disappear from the internet for an hour or so.
Also, in other news, I have just found that palgn have the much awaited smash bros brawl listed as a 9/07/2008 (Postponed) release. I swear I should have just imported a Japanese console. That makes the release MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER JAPAN!!!
Meanwhile Wii Mario Kart is down for a 1/5/2008 release date on the same site. Guess I'm glad I also own a 360, then. For those that are interested, Wii Fit is down for 28/5/2008.
I think Nintendo need to lift their game a bit. More and more consoles are being sold on ebay, for the simple reason that there's no games for it. If they don't bring some more stuff out soon, they'll find those console shortages will clear right up. Super Mario Galaxy is a brilliant games, but it does not have infinite replay ability.
Anyway, hopefully we'll see those games soonish.
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