http://www.steven-harrison.com Oh no - it's another WordPress weblog! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Book 14 has made it to Roheyrn today, and if you download the client with the Turbine Download Manager, you'll get the high-res textures. Release notes for book 14 are here. http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/30/book-14-on-roheryn/ Sick and tired of wasting money, time and resources to dye an article of clothing in LOTRO only to find out you didn't like the end colour? That's all about to change with book 14. http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/23/dye-preview-coming-to-lotro/ Toshiba have been promising hardware with a Cell-based processor inside it for some time now. An article on PC World (via digg) looks like this is one step closer to becoming more than just vapourware.read more | digg story http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/23/toshiba-unveils-laptop-with-cell-derived-chip/ In the market for a new keyboard, but can't justify the cost of the Optimus Maximus? At almost $2000, the Optimus Maximus is a bit spendy (but awfully pretty nevertheless). However, the soon-to-be-released Das Keyboard could be worth a look. As it uses mechanical switches, it should be just as good ... http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/20/in-keyboard-heaven/ Some enterprising young scoundrel leaked a pre-air version of ABC's remake of Life on Mars to Mininova. I liked the original, and thought I'd give it a try. I had to stop watching half way through. It was truly awful. Watch the original instead, you'll be doing yourself a huge favour. http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/19/please-call-off-abcs-mission-to-mars/ Love computer games and thinking of doing a gaming design degree? Pick your course carefully as the BBC reports that only 4 out of the 81 courses on offer at UK universities are accredited. This could end up being a huge problem for the current generation of students. The gaming industry ... http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/19/thinking-about-entering-the-gaming-industry-think-again/ As if driving a car wasn't expensive enough these days, the police force in Holly Springs, Atlanta are passing the rising costs of fuel onto their residents by making the speeders pay for the cost of fuel burned when catching them. Unsurprisingly, switching from the traditional Crown Victoria's to Dodge Chargers ... http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/19/speeding-drivers-bitten-twice-by-fuel-costs/ The NY Times (via Digg) has an interesting story on Paul Otlet, and his vision of a global network of information storage systems that predated the Internet by 30-40 years. read more | digg story http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/18/an-early-plan-for-the-internet/ This month marks the diamond Jubilee of the Small Scale Experimental Machine - the Manchester SSEM - the first computer to execute a stored program. More information here http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/18/the-diamond-jubilee-of-the-ssem/ Here we go - the first post on my new blog. Knowing me, I'll probably get bored within 10 minutes, hopefully it'll last longer! http://www.steven-harrison.com/2008/06/17/first-post/