Grand Theft Auto IV – Trailer 2

This October I’m going to Liberty City to see the sights.

Welcome back Indy

We have been waiting for you for quite some time.

Star Wars baby stroller

This must be the coolest baby stroller ever.

What a lucky kid… gotta get me one of those for my son even though he might be a bit old for it already…

[via Thingamababy]

Spore is sliding away

Spore has been delayed again… this time it is apparently “indefinitely”.

Come on goddammit. Just finish the game already.

[via Digg.com]

Weird comment spam

I get a lot of comment spam on this blog… a lot. Most of it is about shady medicine and online casinos, but this one really got my attention.

15. juni 2007
Stilling som regnskabsassistent
Hermed fremsendes mit CV med henblik p? ans?ttelse i Deres virksomhed. Jeg er uddannet HA p? Handelsh?jskolen. Jeg har erfaring indenfor regnskab og kan have ansvar for nedenst?ende opgaver:

? Finansbogf?ring
? Kreditorbogf?ring
? Moms og Intrastat
? Intern og ekstern rapportering
? Jeg har kendskab til Navision og C5

Jeg er selvst?ndig og har et godt hum?r. Jeg ser frem til et m?de, hvor jeg kan pr?sentere mig selv n?rmere.

Med venlig hilsen

[Name and address deleted]

CV
Ans?ttelser
2006 Regnskabsmedarbejder hos [Company name deleted]
? Kreditorbogf?ring i Navision

2003 Regnskabsmedarbejder hos [Company name deleted]
? Butiksregnskab
? Kontering af fakturaer til betaling og l?nbilag
? Afstemning af instituttets konti
? Fondsregnskab
? Kontooversigter

2001 Regnskabsassistent hos [Company name deleted]
? Kontering og indtastning af kreditor- og debitorbilag i Navision Stat
? Afstemning af bankkonti
? Assistance til udarbejdelse af projekt- og bevillingsregnskaber
? Kontrol og registrering af timesedler samt udarbejdelse af l?nindberetning

2000 Kontorassistent i bogholderiet hos [Company name deleted]
? Daglig kontrol af salgskasser
? Bogf?ring p? edb-programmet Navigator i finansmodul
? Udarbejdelse af salgsstatistikker i edb-programmet Excel
? Afstemninger af kreditorer og likvide beholdninger

1993 Regnskabsmedarbejder hos [Company name deleted]
? EDB bogf?ring og statistikker i Navigator

1990 Studentermedarbejder hos [Company name deleted]
? Fakturering og kunderegistrering i Navigator

Uddannelse
1993 HA Den almene erhvervs?konomiske eksamen, Handelsh?jskolen i K?benhavn

IT
2005 MBS Navisionudvikler og -konsulent, Teknologisk Institut

1998 Lessor-l?n til Navision kursus

1994 Informatikassistent i Navigator, Niels Brock

1994 Navigator kursus, AOF

1993 Navigator Kursus, PC Gruppen

Interesser: Roser og krydderurter.

I didn’t bother translating the whole thing, but will just say that it’s a complete resume from someone who wants to apply for a jobs as accountant in my company. My what?

I’ve deleted the womans name and address and the names of the companies she has worked for in the past because I wouldn’t want to display her information to the whole internet, just the things she writes.

What I really really like is the interests she states in the end of the application: “roses and herbs”. Right. Instant match. I don’t know if I should mail her back and offer her a job interview or I should just let it be and not unravel the fragile fabric of the universe.

Oh, and BTW the post that the comment was posted on was this one about coffee (again in Danish, bottom line: don’t drink anything else than coffee). More mysteries.

No flickr censorship with me!

Click the image and read the reason for this post.

Scaling geometry difficulty

The last few days I’ve been playing a lot of God of War II and thoroughly enjoying every last moment of it. That is, up until now.
I’ve just gotten to some of the last levels I presume as the story arc is nearing its end (the Phoenix Champers) and the difficulty have just risen so steeply in the last few levels that the game is becoming more frustrating than fun to play.

Let me explain. In the last few years I’ve steadily gone from being a hard-core gamer to a somewhat ex-core gamer due to high level of time consuming elements of my life (such as university studies, wife and son). And that has some clear effects on my timing and aiming skills. These skills only stay good if honed continuously, and I simply don’t have the time for that.
And in the case of God of War II many of the later sequences of the game requires just these skills. As I’ve become an ex-core gamer I tend to play on the easy setting just so that I have time to complete the game without using too much time on it and still see the parts of the game that everyone is talking about. The problem is just that the geometry don’t scale. The difficulty of making a jump in a 3D environment is just as hard on extreme difficulty as it is on easy. And that’s no good.

When games moved into 3D, however, the jumping puzzle became a more difficult task. In addition to requiring the player to control their jumps in an extra dimension, the problem of viewpoint reared its ugly head. Games with fixed cameras sometimes made it quite difficult for the players to see where they were landing, while manual control added another control to juggle. #

I would really like to see that if I choose to play on easy setting that the jumping and timing puzzles gets scaled accordingly, else I’ll end up in the position I’m at with God of War II currently; I’ll just stop playing and all the hard work and godly greatness being purred into the levels to come will forever be lost on me.

This is living

I don’t really care too much about the ongoing fanboy flame war between XBox 360 fans and Playstation 3 fans, but Sony wins the television adds war hands down.

I have always found the Playstation adds more interesting and containing more of an edge, but this one is just over the top. I really really like it and at the same time applaud Sony for having the balls to produce such an add campaign in a time when they are clearly fighting an uphill battle for the home console market.