I’m a big grumpy ‘I don’t like iTunes’ type though, but I was a bit curious as to why some of my enclosures weren’t automatically downloading in FeedDemon and others were; it turns out that FeedDemon is initially set to refuse enclosures with the extension .m4a.

I think this is bonkers; that said, there might be some sort of compatibility issues with iTunes if they’re both trying to download the same thing.

Either way. To ‘fix’, load up your main FeedDemon window and do the following:

Click ‘Tools’, then ‘Options’;
Click the ‘Enclosures/Podcasts…’ button;
Add ‘m4a;’ to the big list of file extensions under ‘permitted enclosures’.

Either that, or instead of adding ‘m4a’ to said list, you can also set FeedDemon to allow any non-executable enclosures in the same options screen. (more…)

Hint: It’s me.

This is just going to be awful, isn’t it? Intrigued what the touted Guitar Hero Functionality might be in the forthcoming version, but…

Extreme Metal Racing? “Choose from 10 Evil Earache racing teams like Deicide, Morbid Angel, The Berzerker, Akercocke or Municipal Waste (driving the actual dumpster truck immortalised on their album cover is a blast!)Hurl your band’s vehicle around an assortment of ghoulish racetracks as well as the pulverising deathmatch arena”

Oh god.

Coming up in the next few days:

• Nokia N-Gage overview
• Microsoft XBox 360 overview
• A year’s supply of mayonnaise
• Flippancy

Brilliant!

As a comparison I spent a day out in Lincolnshire fixing computers, where the only cloud in the sky was far to my left, and it was randomly purple. This was at 13:10. The secret is aircon.

Derick and I have a little project that we’ve started running recently - you can view it here, Leek and Potatoes. We’ve both decided to adopt a football team to support as neither of us really follow a local team… you can read up about our EXCITING and ZANY exploits there.

Also, bought a Nokia N-Gage but I’ve been too busy playing FIFA 2005 on it to post any impressions. A sneak peak - “It isn’t actually all that bad”.

“You are a massive penis, Yugi”

The deluxe edition could consist of two satellites positioned facing each other with a clear perspex screen with the action overlayed on to it…

I’m thinking too much about this.

World Championship Club Football, or WCCF for short, is something you’ll find in a few arcades dotted around the country - basically a trading card game and football management crossover. Unlike most games of this ilk, like the MTG Online series where your cards are all virtual, WCCF requires that you buy a starter pack .This itself contains your club card and 11 player cards - which are actually made out of plasticy card rather than being something you see on screen only.

From here, you lay your players out on the pitch - that green bit on the console - in formation, do a few training sessions and then hit a match proper. This is where it gets really mental - to alter your formation in-game you actually move the cards around. Want to push a winger up the field into a useful crossing position? Slide his card upwards. Want to alter your formation from a 4-4-2 to a 5-3-2 by moving one of your midfielders into Central Defence? Move your four existing defenders out a bit and slide his card into the centre of them. Bonkers.

Shooting and basic goalie actions are also controlled by you - tapping the appropriate button when you want to shoot, for instance. In-game you also have basic tactical choices, from what direction to attack and whether to counter etc. All very strange at first sight but would see me traipsing to Meadowhall (my nearest machine) every weekend were it not for one slight issue…

A managerial contract lasts 100 games. One game per credit. £2 a credit? You might well get one whole free card after every game, but are they having a laugh? It costs roughly £1.40 for four credits in Hong Kong. £2 a credit?

…

£2 a credit…?

Unfortunately I was a div and forgot my camera, but anyhow. It’s changed a lot since I was last there about eight years ago - gone from the seafront are many of the quaint little traditional seaside junk shops that you expect from anywhere with a beach; in their place, rows upon rows of bars. The last time I went there was one whole bar on the seafront, now it’s packed with the things.

Of course, the last few years Brighton’s proximity to London has pretty much guaranteed a constant influx of Londoners and as a result, the city itself has changed somewhat, and property prices have unfortunately gone through the roof (which is a shame as I’d really like to move there… no such luck). On the other hand it is nice to feel that Brighton has grown up alongside me as it’s certainly more of an interesting place nowadays for those who can take or leave quaint seafronts… The Lanes have retained most of their tiny coffee shops and jewellers - and the inexplicable vintage armoury which will sell you a musket for a few hundred quid if you were that way inclined.

Either way, it’s still just as lovely a place as I remember - while we only went for a night we were never out of things to do (which also saw me venturing into a bar, gasp. The lovely Suga Qube), played the most epic games of Air Hockey ever and ran out of time to eat at all the places we wanted to.

One of the places we were slightly less keen on eating at served Shark Fin Soup and Stir-Fried Ostrich.

Really regretting forgetting my camera now. Sob.

What I don’t understand is why it’s so difficult to alter some of these things - it’s all very well keeping all your information in a CSS file which is referenced by hundreds of other pages, but why does the whole thing have to be so obtuse to understand? Part of the problem is working with other people’s uncommented code - I was looking for the section that stops image links from having a border around them, and it took me three passes of the entire file before I found it, and then two goes at editing it before I reached the desired result…

I get the feeling that a ‘real’ language would give me a heart attack.

If only Mark and Lard were still on the air, then I would be able to spend a lot more time listening to them nowadays!

At this point my train of thought was halted as the grille from the back of a fridge fell of the back of the lorry in front of me and started to approach at blistering speeds.

It’s not something you see every day. I’m quite glad.