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Marple

Update on my iPhone puzzle games post: There is actually a remake of the Palm OS game Hercule, and it is called Marple (Universal app for both iPhone and iPad). Shockingly, this post was made possible by the “Genius” app … Continue reading

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Zoë Keating – Into the Trees

Ever since I’d stumbled upon her live performance of Escape Artist for Wired, I’ve been looking forward to be able to actually buy the song. Now the album it’s on, called “Into the Trees”, is out. =) It’s full of … Continue reading

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Joe Abercrombie – Best Served Cold

It’s as enjoyable as the “First Law” trilogy; he stills has that fascination for broken / crippled characters (but as every reviewer mentioned them it’s only natural he sticks to what’s been working) — and unsurprisingly this book is quite … Continue reading

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Regina Spektor – Far (+misc)

Piano-pop music (a bit similar to Ben Folds). Really like the album, but the incessant repetition of some of the lyrics goes on my nerves, as do the Hallelujahs. Stand-outs: Dance Anthem of the 80′s, Eet, The Calculation. Other music … Continue reading

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Solid-State Drives and You

While solid-state drives (SSDs) seem to be all the rage in net-/laptops at the moment, most of their advantages (mostly negligible access times) also make sense for a desktop system, whereas their disadvantages (price / small size) are not as … Continue reading

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iPhone Puzzle Games

PuzzleManiak €3.99 – includes a lot of Nikoli puzzle games (in fact most of the ones from here are in there), all are randomly generated with different difficulty levels and includes a daily Web Challenge where you compete against other’s … Continue reading

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Richard Morgan – The Steel Remains

Fairly short book, and about 3 quarters of it feel like exposition (although there’s plenty of things happening) and build-up, but it covers a lot of ground; a fair amount of it in flashbacks. Nevertheless, it ends in a nice, … Continue reading

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Dan Simmons – Olympos

This is gonna be a bit of a rant… First off, it’s not as good as Ilium, but it’s still a fast-paced page turner. If you skip all the useless prose. It isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Future Fantasy or something. … Continue reading

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Alastair Reynolds – The House of Suns

As usaul, hard SF-ish. Gives a very good impression of time- and space-implications of galaxy-wide colonisation using relativistic travel. There’s a reveal about two-thirds in (complete with “sit down for this”) which on first thought is a bit “meh!”, but … Continue reading

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Tekkon Kinkreet

An amazing movie. Very enjoyable, but slightly fragmented (with many fades to black separating scenes) and very surreal. I’m a bit sad that many people won’t bother with the film because it seems to make very little sense in the … Continue reading

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Alastair Reynolds — The Prefect

I finished reading Alastair Reynolds’ “The Prefect” yesterday. It’s set in the Revelation Space universe (in the Glitter Band, before the Melding Plague) and comes in fairly short at ~400 pages (which I read in two suitably epic evening sessions). … Continue reading

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My PS3 impressions – End of Day 1

Hardware – Heavy, although it doesn’t seem much bigger than my 360 when horizontal. Although upright it seems much more massive. I won’t be lugging this back to my parents’ for the weekend. The form itself is odd, and always … Continue reading

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