Ian RentonBlog Archive — Page 28
These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
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Endings and Midwinter
Winter has well and truly closed in, with black ice laying in sheets across the roads, scarf and gloves on, and “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” stuck on a permanent loop in my head. I had Cliff Richard’s “Mistletoe and Wine” in there this morning, though, so John and Yoko...
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So Farewell, Psion 3a
No idea why the hell I bought a Psion 3a a lottery ticket? Check out my previous blog post, “Coming of Age”. It wasn’t a good sign, I suppose, when I switched the old Psion on this evening and discovered naught but vertical black bands on the display. It took...
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Coming of Age
The other day, while excavating the depths of our airing cupboard-turned-junk pile, I discovered possibly the oldest gadget I own: a Psion Series 3a… thingy. Time has obscured from my memory what we actually called these things when they were new. It certainly wasn’t ‘netbook’ - was it ‘palmtop’? After...
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Overpackaged Much?
The phone company Orange appear to be giving out free headphone adapters as part of some promotion or other. So, naturally, on the bandwagon I jumped to see if I could grab some that would work with my phone. I filled in the form, clicked Submit, and thought nothing of...
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Dishing out Google Wave Invites
I’ve tweeted this already, but just so it goes out to LiveJournal and other blog-followers too: The great Googly gods have blessed me with a bajillion Google Wave invites. I have 20 left right now. First 20 people to send me their e-mail address get ‘em. I’ll send out the...
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Dial M for Mandelson
I can’t be the only one thinking along these lines right now, so… have blog, will rant. I think Peter Mandelson has too much power. First off, he’s unelected, not having been a Member of Parliament since 2004. So how come he manages to be such a prominent figure in...
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Cold November Rain
The rain here is not falling or even pouring. It is constant, pervasive. As you look into the grey mist a hundred metres away in all directions, if you’re lucky, you can make out the merest hint of an angle to signify the way the squally wind is buffeting the...
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To Run, or Not to Run, That is the Question
Right, having pitched a roleplaying game setting with the caveat that I wouldn’t run it, I appear to have acquired four potential players. So, here’s the deal. With four or possibly five committed players, I will run an online game. It will be run on a wiki rather than on...
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Changeling 2: The Anti-Changeling?
I have thought up yet another setting for a roleplaying game that I will probably never get to run. This may be of interest to my former “Changeling: In Love and War” players since it’s in the same world, though the feel of it is completely different. Pretty much the...
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Oh Look, a Totally Normal E-mail
Ahahaha WHAT. I feel that the order of the Universe has somehow been challenged. And defeated. Note: The account is @fakerupe, so er, yeah.