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Knights of the Old Republic
I've been playing lots of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic recently. It's a great game, even though I'm not a huge fan of the movies (I like the original three, especially the first one, but the new movies left me totally cold).
The world is attractive, though, and the game has strong feel of the movies. It's set 4000 years before the events of the movies, so you're not going to see familiar faces, but I've already met Hutts, Jawas, Wookies, Jedis and whatnot. The script and dialogue is good, as is music. The game looks pretty good, too.
Even though it suffers from a world full of annoying absurdities (as most computer roleplaying games do - they simply fail to present a believable world), the plot has me hooked. I'm very curious. I also like the way the game lets you take different approaches to the problems you face. Of course, there's a strong good or evil -thing going on. Your actions count and your balance between the Light and the Dark side of the Force depend on how you solve the problems.
There's always the way of taking what you can and then there's the way of doing what's right. It isn't always easy to choose. And that's what makes the game so neat. I'm very curious to find out what's going to happen next and how can I react. That's pretty addictive stuff, you know...
30.01.2004 klo 15:33
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Interesting and useful
I've found few rather interesting web resources recently.
Let's start with del.icio.us, which is a social bookmarks system. Users can use it to store their bookmarks. Bookmarks are public and the front page is a never-stopping stream of interesting links, which you can easily grab on your own lists as well. You can categorise the lists with a simple tag system. All the bookmarks are available in RSS format (see the sidebar for my latest delicious links, for example). You can also subscribe to someone else's bookmarks within the system. It's pre-pre-alpha, but already really interesting.
I like! is another interesting bookmark-related system. It's idea is simple: when you hit an interesting page while surfing, you hit a I like! button in your browser (implemented as a bookmarklet). From your selections, the system builds a profile and recommends some links to you. At the moment the recommendations aren't too cool, but I expect the system to improve when it's databases grow. It's interesting, but still beta. It's slowish and doesn't really shine yet, but I'm curious.
Finally we come to Bloglines, which is a highly useful RSS feed reader. It's web-based, so you can check your feeds everywhere without installing any software. It's the best thing since rss2email, which still rules the field in my opinion. Bloglines has lots of interesting features, including the possibility to export a blogroll. You can see that in action on Gameblog, where the blogroll is taken from Bloglines. Check it out and subscribe me (I've included a handy subscription link button).
I notice the English side of this blog is highly geeky.
30.01.2004 klo 13:12
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Quality Link Building
A fellow called Raul just sent me a cross-linking proposal:
"I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in melankolia.net because it looks like it's relevant to a site for which I am seeking links. The site is about pet odor control and removal products."
His signature says he's from Link Builder, who are "Experts in Quality Link Building". Yeah, right.
16.01.2004 klo 15:23
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Linux box
When I told you about my Linux box, I said I was wondering if I had any use for the machine. Well, it turned out surprisingly useful. I've been using a lot, mostly for everyday stuff like web surfing, reading my e-mails and writing. Johanna has been able to use our main computer for her web surfing more while I haven't been shut from computer while she surfs. Everyone's happy.
I've been very satisfied with Linux, especially since I switched from KDE to WindowMaker. My only problem is with Galeon, which is slow to draw stuff on screen. But I think it's unfair to compare it to Firebird running on my other computer (433 MHz Celeron vs AMD Barton 3000+). However, I have to check if some other browsers are any faster. Reading my e-mails with pine is always a delight, even though I do miss my spam filter...
10.01.2004 klo 12:45
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Lovely software
For some reason I find MiniMP3 to be a very charming piece of software. It's an invisible MP3 player. It resides in the system tray, that's all user interface it has. It can load and save playlist and play MP3 files. It doesn't even show you the title of the current track! What beautiful minimalism! The program is just a single exe file, only 45 kilobytes.
1.01.2004 klo 17:44
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