BBC NEWS | Technology | Rockstar scores with Table Tennis

See, I realise that they are probably just demonstrating some of the new features of the xbox but don't you think it is a bit crazy that people are playing table tennis on a games console. I mean table tennis was meant as a cut down version of tennis you could play in your garage, beacuse a real court was too big. In ten years time will there be a video game of people playing Space Invaders.

Why not go and play a fucking table tennis for crying out loud.

Grizzly, grizzly grumble.

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Chuff Biff Pow

Oooof

DaylightMap Beta

Ooooooo this is good.

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Questions, questions, questions ...

I have been doing a few all nighters of late trying to get a system finished. Last night at around 3am I had the urge for comforting 70s prog and found myself purchasing a Supertramp album on iTunes.

Can this be normal? is it sleep deprivation? a cry for help?

Secondly, after exercise, can a pint of Stella and a bag of dry roasted peanuts be considered an isotonic sports drink?

Thirdly is opera good or is it a load of fat people shouting?

Beats me.

Javascript - bang to rights

Norman Stanley Spugster, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual programmer, who accepts the coding as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts testing in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences — you will have to program in Javascript for five years

In wee hours

In the dark dark hills in the dark dark forest there was a dark dark cabin and in the dark dark cabin there was a daft daft computer programmer. Up for all for nighter trying to get the system into test for the morning.I am told that young'uns in silicon valley would eat pizza and drink jolt cola. Here we are just having coffee and victoria sponge sandwich.When I say we I mean myself and our senior operator, aka Betty the dog.Change the tapes Betty, we're going in.

Chutney 2.0

There is a lot of talk about Web 2.0 at the moment. People in the mobile community have now started banging on about Mobile Web 2.0 and what that means. Podcasts are rammed with people droning on and on and on about essentially, bugger all. In fact the only point of it all this is to generate more book sales and conference invites for someone.

Meanwhile the two problems for the Mobile Web 1.0 remain:

1. It doesn't work - mostly.
2. No one knows it's there.

Solve these are we are rocking.

As for people droning on at speaking events, the only thing to do is to follow Spug's first law of conferences:

1. Sit at the back with your coat on.

If you follow this you can always slip out for a pint, or as I did once at a Brighton conference; go buy an ice cream, silly glasses and rent a deck chair.