My new toy

After hesitating for a while I got my self a PicooZ helicopter from Amazon. I only had it for two days now but I'm already hooked. It's a great little toy to relax with. It is difficult to explain but soon as you start flying it is like you're consumed by it. Shame you can only fly it max 10 minutes at a time aa the little Lithium battery does not last longer than that. However you can fully charge it in around 20-30 mins so you can get around 20-30 minutes flying in a evening in three sessions which is a great excuse to have a break from a boring essay ;). All in all well worth the £15 I paid for it.

Outlook 2007 spelling not working

Last week Outlook 2007 decided to crash and I got a message that spelling is a problem and that it will be disabled. I thought fine, reboot should enable it back. But no, reboot did not help. So I tried Control Panel/Add Remove Progs and Repair for Office 2007 and did not help. After this I uninstalled Outlook and reinstalled it but no good. The solution (at least temporarily until it crashes again!) was much simpler:

• In Outlook 2007 go to Tools and Trust Center
• Choose Add-ins on the left pane and then at the bottom of the right pane next to Manage label choose Disabled Items
• Click Go and it should display a list with one of the items disabled the speller
• Enable it, click OK and that's it! Fixed!
  

Lantern Procession Photos

Some photos from the Lanter Procession in Ulverston 20/09/2008

Tomb Raider:Legend

One of latest games I rented and I must say even though I did not expect it I really enjoyed it. The game is smooth, relatively good story and some of the puzzles are very cool. Finished the game on hard and collected most rewards in just under 10 hours gameplay. It would have most probably took me twice as long if I did not have the following walkthrough handy which helped enormously. I read some comments that the game is short but I don't think it's short at all. I think if it was longer I'd get bored, not finish it and get disappointed. It was similar with COD 4 single player. I thought it was long enough and I read many people saying that the single player was short. I guess I like "shorter" games.

The Why Are You Here Cafe by John P. Strelecky

Recently had a pleasure to read The Why Are You Here Cafe by John P. Strelecky and I loved it. It is an eye opener and a book you want to go back to again and again. A small book in number of words or pages which ever way you want to look at it, but a book that will make you think about your priorities in life. If you read The Celestine Prophecy by J. Redfield you will most probably like this book too.

Ulverston Lantern Procession

Today was 26th Ulverston Lantern Procession a showcase of my town's imagination, artistic creativity and community spirit. There was a grand finale with magnificent fireworks. I took over hundred photos and will post a few here very soon.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Open game covering relatively tight missions in cities and rural areas, various weapons, land, water and air vehicles sounds like great features for a unique game. To a degree they did it but fell short on some important points. The story is not that good. Starts ok but does not follow very well (at least to 40% I completed until today). Acting is just shameful and very very very... did I say very?... very repetitive. How hard could have been to use more phrases and randomize it a bit??? Anyway, all in all, I think it is ok game, entertaining at least for a week IMO but can't see going back to it much after that. Probably will trade it in when I get Fifa 09 beginning of October.

P.S. You can download game single free for a limited time from http://www.pandemicstudios.com/mercenaries/downloads.php. Cool and catchy song! :-)

Almost there with the Open Uni

Right! The last two TMAs done. Mighty proud of myself :-). Now I need to write two more essays which are my end of course assignments and that's it for this year. Got my 60 points and the certificate which I think it is enough for this year. Next year might take it further and get a diploma but that's too far ahead to plan for me <grin>. For now I'm looking forward Fifa 09 and Gears of War 2 in the beginning of October and November. Happy times :-).