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Posted on March 8, 2010 by jonners99
So this morning I got around to picking up Adobe CS2 from the post office. On the way home I opened it up, I found that the disc was two tones of white and the image on the disc was slightly compressed. Expectations were therefore not that high when I got home and chatted with Adobe via their website. I gave them the product key and they informed me that the key was not valid. Yey for more non-official products on ebay.
Posted on March 5, 2010 by jonners99
Back in November Craig gave me a phone to sell on ebay, a week after that I tried placing it on the site only to find that the adding process would not complete even though all required and some non-required fields were filled in correctly. I put this down to a small bug that would be fixed and left it – granted Craig would have preferred I didn’t leave it as long – until two weeks ago. This time the item added fine and I was happy enough with the ebay fees of £5 or so for listing the item on the site as we expected it to go for a lot more money. I’ll just say I am sure neither ebay nor paypal used to take such a large share of the monies generated.
Posted on February 14, 2010 by jonners99
You may or may not know that several months ago my friend Craig and I launched (well almost) our own hosting website. I’ll tell you more about that in another post in the future when we have finished tinkering. Part of that process meant signing up as being self employed, I thought that I’d take the opportunity to earn some extra funds and build websites for people in my spare time. Well the first of those websites has now been launched.
Tapovan
Posted on February 9, 2010 by jonners99
All I did was post an innocuous little comment on the BBC website about how Peugeot and Citroen should evaluate the 107 and C1 respectively because the accelerator has a habit of sticking and I get a call from the BBC asking me to be on the radio that night. Well, as nervous as the idea of being on radio may have made me, I couldn’t exactly say no to that kind of opportunity, could I?
Here is an audio of my radio debut… I don’t sound too retarded.
BBC Kent - Jonners asked about his car
Probably only works on jonners.org
Posted on January 26, 2010 by jonners99
This is a list of the games that have already been announced that I am excited about in the next five months. The fact is that it appears that most of the good games coming out this year are coming in this period due to the Modern Warfare 2 effect experienced at the end of last year.
In relative chronological order then:
Mass Effect 2 – Xbox 360 – 29th January 2010
Posted on January 16, 2010 by jonners99
The votes are in. Four of the nine shortlisted films failed to garner a single vote, these were:
- Juno
- Atonement
- Wall-E
- In Brugges
The Dark Knight and The Bourne Trilogy were next receiving just 9.5% of the vote each. This leaves the top 3 films of the ‘noughties’ as voted for by you.
We have a tie for second place:
Posted on January 11, 2010 by jonners99
This last decade saw us grow up, when it started I was 12, this means my memories of the previous decade are slim, the ‘noughties’ then will be the decade that film took over my life. The last ten years saw Cathy and I doing degrees in the subject, neither of us are now working with anything to do with the industry but we both still have a love for the medium. Certainly the overblown special effects that have come in this decade have often come at the expense of plot but that is not to say that there have not been some great films. Film is an entertainment medium and the fact that 8 of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time came out in this decade shows that audiences have been entertained. Our lists are not ordered by preference but chronologically. My wife could not pick 10 and so has 11 instead and the nominees for film of the decade will be voted for by you from that shortlist.
Posted on January 10, 2010 by jonners99
Having sent a call out to my usual partners in crime I did not know what to expect from their top five films of 2009. In the end I managed to get three out of five of the opinions I hoped for. This year has been an odd one with no huge standout film that blew people away… until December when Avatar arrived.
Jonathan:
5. Avatar
4. Up
3. Star Trek
2. Gran Torino
1. The Wrestler
Posted on January 6, 2010 by jonners99
So to the list of sporting achievements of the decade. Again by Trefor Little and again in no particular order here are the athletes who shone in their chosen fields.
- Tiger Woods (USA – 12 Majors, 56 Other PGA Event wins)
- Roger Federer (Switzerland – 15 Grand Slams)
- Ricky Ponting (Australia – 9,458 Test Runs (including 32 centuries) at an average of 58.4)
- Michael Schumacher (5 world titles in the noughties)
- Joe Calzaghe (19 Defences of the World Super Middleweight Title – All won)
Posted on January 3, 2010 by jonners99
2009 has not been the best of years for video games in my opinion. Modern Warfare 2 seems largely to blame for this in that it gave developers an excuse to postpone and tighten their news games. Therefore the first three months of 2010 are going to be pretty manic. That being said though, there have been plenty of very good games this year and now that I have an Xbox 360 I have experienced my first taste of HD gaming… and it is good.
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