Portfolio

Just a quick one,

Over on http://chrishunt.termisoc.org you can find my brand spanking new portfolio site.

Hope you like it. I'll try to be a bit more proactive with the updates over here in the future, but don' forget to follow me on twitter in the mean time.

Errrmm...

Hair

It's Gone. It's Just Gone.

Hair
Originally uploaded by ThisIsTheChris

The Most Popular thing I put on the Internet...

At nearly Two and a Half Thousand views it's this image from my Flickr account, which made an appearance on TUAW:


Flickr Link

TUAW Story, which links to the Picture

[UPDATE 1 - The Picture's hit count is now pushing 3,200]

[UPDATE 2 - The Picture's gone up to 3,600, and this picture has over 1000 hits]

RE: Ridge Racer Type 4

Just a Quickie Today (Or a shameless plug for a new Business in Plymouth). I was in the recently opened Computer Exchange and to my delight, sitting on the shelf was an original copy of one of favourite games on the original Playstation, the afore mentioned Ridge Racer Type 4.

For One Pound.

So, with Giddy Delight, I proceeded to the desk, and quickly ran home with my new purchase. I admit, the game has dated a lot, but the soundtrack is still as great as I remember and the stories of the Race team mangers are still as compelling as ever.

Proper Blogging to resume soon!

Chris

[A] I [B] Part 1

[A] Podcasts
[B] Listen to..

In the First of a new series of continued internet whorage, a list of all the podcasts I Listen to (or Watch, in some cases)

• Best of Chris Moyles
• Best of YouTube
• Cool Hunting Video
• The Digg Reel
• Diggnation
• Digital Planet
• Doctor Who: The Commentaries
  
• Experiment of the Week
• The Kojima Productions Report
• LOGin - The TermiSoc Podcast
• MacBreak Weekly
• Mahalo Daily
• New Yorker: Fiction
• One Life Left
• Pets
• PlayDigital
• Radio One Chart Show
• Radio One Mini Mix
• Rocketboom
• Science Weekly
• Skeptoid
• Stephen Fry's PODGRAMS
• Tech Weekly
• this WEEK in TECH
• Tiki Bar TV
• The PSP Show
• Windows Weekly

I Haven't Yet added links for all these (that'll follow in an update), but they should be 'Googleable' just now.

Enjoy

Chris

RE: Gladiators

So, just finished watching the first episode of ‘new’ gladiators and I bet you’re itching to find out what I make of it. Well find out in this completely unbiased (honest!) can’t-really-call-it-a-review-but-oh-well blog post.

Things I liked:

• The Glad’s are suitably Camp, as is always the case in this program
• Ian and Kristy are good substitutes for John and Ulrika
• Art and Lighting design where both suitably up to date
• John Anderson Still In it. Wouldn’t be the same without him!
• Still not lost any of the aggression, violence and wince factor from the original.

Things I didn’t:

• The commentator is utterly woeful. The Sponsors before the show are all read out by John Sacs, making you think he’s doing the whole show, but no, you get this nameless tit that can’t describe a paper bag to Einstein.
• There’s only 4 events + the eliminator. I’m sure there was more than that originally?
• The whole things flies along at a terrific phase. A Shame, because there’s no time for any real banter and the like.
• The Set is TINY. Where’s the whole sense of epicness that accompanied the original version?
• This directly affects the eliminator. It just feels feeble.
• And what’s with the pool?
• Also, while it’s coming next week, wasn’t the wall the only event apart from the eliminator that’s always a part of the show?

So in conclusion, the New Gladiators on Sky One is perfectly watchable, but most of the problems come from comparisons with the Original Series, which as a massive childhood fan (I still remember Saracen visiting my primary school to warn me not to play on railway tracks) are inevitable. Still, despite all this criticism, I enjoyed the Glad’s Return.

Now, to vow to hunger strike until they bring back The Crystal Maze!