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Aside from playing the odd drunken game of 21 with friends I'm not much of a bball dude. I'd say I'm more BBS nerd.

my account name is "stewball38@hotmail.com" because in the first steam beta your email was your username and when it was released to the public no-one told me (Â¬_Â¬).

I wouldn't be surprised if this little marketing ploy paid off. I guess I don't want to fit in as I've never used the supplied iPod earbuds nor the Apple firmware, replacing them with a nice pair of Sony Dj Headphones and Rockbox

Excellent I've been looking for something like this for a while although I'll carry on using SIFR for title typesetting as it's not exactly superduper resource hungry and search engine friendly.

Seeing as it's the Jap spec car it may not be released officially here and may only be available on import only like the Levins in the 80s, and S15s. Still it'd be pretty dope if it were released. Quick estate cars are the mutts nuts.

I don't really see the big deal and I personally find them rather uncomfortable but my cousin, my ex-gf and quite a few of my friends have been raving about them for the past few months.

On a side note, I'm sure Kate Middleton is Prince Williams on/off ex-girlfriend.

For quite a while I've been a proud Linux user and as much as I thought "OMG ITZ PHOR NOOBZ!!!11" when I first saw the Ubuntu project pop up a while back, it's really grown on me and I think it's a bloody great thing. The other day I stumbled across the multimedia creation flavour of Ubuntu linux named Ubuntu Studio so I downloaded it and installed it and it's excellent. All the userfriendlyness of Ubuntu but with amazing multimedia support and a great suite of apps preinstalled and configured.

So, here's the challenge:
Try using UbuntuStudio as your main OS for your creative and web work for 30 days and then post back with your delights and your letdowns and times when you had to just hop back onto Windows or OS X.

Hehe too bad he broke into her house again and stole the game again. I guess that kinda nullified any sense of good will.

Adium for Mac OSX is also a good IM client although has a community made xfire plugin but I've had nothing but crashes from that.

MirandaIM is another good windows IM client that takes a modular approach to styling and can take a bit of getting used to but looks great once you've got it customised exactly how you want it.

Dude did you ever play the original Shenmue? It was absolutely fucking awesome Shenmue 2 wasn't as good but was still a bloody great RPG they were produced in rather limited quantities and so of course it wouldn't have sold to shit like Halo or something. Really, you should have tried to get hold of the games and played them for a few hours each before writing a list based on what rather opinionated articles on wiki and around the net said.

Pidgin/GAIM is brilliant the only drawback for it at the moment is the way file transfers are handled which makes them rather slow but it's the best free multi network IM client out there imho.

You could give writing your own MSN client a go with the dotMSN library.
http://www.xihsolutions.net/dotmsn/generaldesign.html

With multiple monitors it's a breeze just have your browser fullscreened on one of them and have the other for whatever.

The iPod touch is so going to get skype access added to it in the form of a 3rd party app or hack.

I find vidcasts (vlogs?) in the sense that it's some dude (or chick) talking at a video camera are not only slightly patronising but rather boring and pretentious. I mean why do all these people assume I want to listen to them moan about how they don't like the place the work, the new shapes of the cuptops in Starbucks or how they can balance a spoon on their nose. The only time I'll watch something like this is if I'll be learning something in the process. I wish I could speak for the general population of our small planet but I want to expand my mind not numb it by watching some idiot moan about completely abitrary day to day nonsense.

Now screencasts on the other hand, now they ARE usefull (usually) I can demonstrate a bug or a new class implementation in action without having to be at a computer with all the nescesarry framework runtimes installed.

SOH CAH TOA is how I was taught it and is the one I'm most familiar with. I ended up just remembering them for the course of my GCSEs and I keep a notebook now of useful 2d and 3d trig functions that I use when doing graphics programming.