Photo by aidanbrooks Today’s idea is a terribly simple one – so much so, I’m astonished nobody else seems to have thought of it: Tamagotchi Gardening. Instead of looking after a pet, you tend a garden. Dig it over, choose what to plant, care for it, water it, and reap the rewards. But it’s not [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Games
Tagged: allotment, farm, iPhone, Software
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- March 29, 2010 – 11:36 pm
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- By dubber
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to New Year Resolutions for 2010, and of course, I came up with a lot of the usual stuff. I also came up with some stuff that was less usual, but not the sort of thing I wanted to spend a whole year doing. For instance, in 2010, [...]
Categories: Family,Food,Games,Music,Whisky
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- December 22, 2009 – 6:29 pm
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- By dubber
We’ve been back from Shambala a few days and it was, once again, a very laid-back and relaxed affair. Good music – mostly by bands we’d never heard of, but occasionally there’d be one or two that one of us had heard of (or, on occasion, met). Here’s a quick glimpse of some the bits [...]
Categories: Family,Games,Music
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- September 2, 2009 – 11:36 pm
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- By dubber
Jake summons his minions to lay waste to Hannah’s troops For some reason, after about a five year hiatus, Jake suddenly went digging through our never-unpacked boxes of stuff from New Zealand for his Magic The Gathering cards. He and I used to play and collect a long time ago and he’s got the bug [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Games
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- August 25, 2009 – 11:32 pm
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- By dubber
I’ve had a really busy few weeks since Christmas. A lot of it has been work-related – writing, mostly – and lining things up for the new year – and a lot of it has been festive and fun. A really good mix, actually. One of the better days recently was spent at the home [...]
Categories: Games
Tagged: Games
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- January 19, 2009 – 8:39 am
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- By dubber
Tah-dah! It’s a Spore creature Somehow, alongside a bunch of celebrities and A-list bloggers, I was invited to have a play with the Spore Creature Creator. Spore is a new game developed by Will Wright – the guy who came up with The Sims and Sim City. Watch this video to get a sense of [...]
Categories: Games
Tagged: Electronic Arts, Games, Michael Arrington, Personal computer game, Robert Scoble, Sims, Video Games, Will Wright
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- June 15, 2008 – 3:43 pm
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- By dubber
Go cat plays Go I played Go against Dan again last night. I lost quite catastrophically. The less said about that, the better. But his cat wanted to get into the game. There’s a LOLcat waiting to happen, I thought – and took some photos. But I’m coming up blank on captions. Ideas? Hury Up! [...]
Categories: Games,Music
Tagged: Games, Music
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- April 16, 2008 – 10:36 pm
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- By dubber
I played a Game of Go with my friend Dan last night. He’s slightly better at it than I am, so although he kindly made a few silly mistakes that allowed me to gain some advantage around the edges, he pretty much took out the centre of the board and ran away with the game. [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Games,Whisky
Tagged: Birmingham, Games, Whisky
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- April 4, 2008 – 11:17 pm
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- By dubber