I want to test this. but I’m going to need another hard disk to experiment with…

2 incredibly famous guys. Everyone on the planet knows who they are.

Who are they?

Kudos and an Atari 2600 to the first person to post the correct identities of these 2 fine fellows.

Stay crunchy

Stay crunchy – Cover by Alic Sibu

The original:

The Most Excellent Cover by Alic Sibu:

If you haven’t already purchased the brilliant “Disorganised Fun” CD by Ronald Jenkees, do so now – Ybeq Rexl Commands You! It is quite simply the best $12 plus postage that you will ever spend (to date).

Stinkypits/Chrome is photographed raising capital for trip to Syntax 2009.

In honour of the bottle of Chrome branded Falling Down Liquid

Style, along with help from a 3rd party, has managed to put together the following release. The genetic coding was quite pleasurable, but it took 9 months to link and release!

I finally made time to try and install Vista Service Pack 1 on my notebook.  Not because there was something specific in there that I wanted but because I got fed up with the update manager prompting me to install it everytime I turned on the system.

I’d read a lot of reports that people had been having problems with the upgrade, usually managing to corrupt their installation instead.  I’m not one for taking unnecessary risks so I made a backup of all my data first (I work in IT so I have to lead by example).  After an hour of backing up, I shut down the virus scanner and let the update manager do its work – expecting it to take an hour, I wandered off to watch some videos that had been piling up on the media centre.

An hour later, I come back to find that the notebook had reset itself two thirds of the way through the upgrade and that Windows could no longer boot.  An attempt by Windows to fix itself was unsuccessful.  In the end, I gave up and booted the backup CD to start the restoration process – not realising that the restoration is all done in legacy mode and as a consequence would take about three hours.

So finally 6pm comes and the restoration is complete – I restart and Windows goes all sulky again because some of the boot information is different (I backed up using Acronis TrueImage 10 but could only find my boot CD for version 9, released about 9 months before Vista came out).  A diagnostic screen and attempted repair later, and I’m back up and running again – albeit without the Service Pack, accordingly the update manager is prompting me to install it again.

I’m going to have to look into this again at a later date but for now, I’ll wait until I absolutely have to upgrade.

In the meantime, I’m going to spend a little more time in the company of my newly assembled Linux box, trying out Kubuntu 8.04 for size and waiting for ReactOS to reach a usuable state.

Well done Microsoft, you’re the only corporation I know of that uses a sniper scope to shoot yourself in the foot.

Just came across this photo on eric-singer.com. This took me by surprise, as these two gentlemen are my #1 and #2 absolute favourite drummers of all time. The order isn’t important, but let’s just say Eric lost points for wearing the stupid cat makeup

For those who are wondering, these two guys are Eric Singer from Black Sabbath/KISS/ESP and Mike Bordin from Faith No More/Ozzie Osborne…….I think Eric is techically the better drummer, but I just love Mike’s lanky spastic style.

[edit] and as per Kris’ request:

Work has started again on one of the games Chrome/Kitchen Sink Productions originally conceptualised back in 1994.

Erky published a preview chapter of the Space Taxi 2 novel that he is working on, to generally positive response, and that seems to have refreshed everyone’s interest in the project.

Style has been developing the physics engine over the weekend, though there is little to demonstrate at this stage. Erky will dust off his music editors and start to actualise the soundtrack he has been putting together during the intervening years. Yes, he will be doing so, won’t he?

Until Fade and Redback have time to devise new graphics, test work will likely be done with sprites ripped from the original game.

Most of the concept work is being discussed on channel so we can bounce ideas off of each other. Or just throw food around, sometimes.

More news as it comes to keyboard.

http://www.krisroebuck.com/

Came across this entirely by chance. A person apparently of the shiny skull brigade who writes music, designs games, takes photographs and lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Further investigations pending.