What does it take for a blogger to be recognised as a journalist?

Or: What do I have to do to get press passes to industry conferences?
I’m planning on going to the Edinburgh Interactive Festival next month, if I can a) convince the wife that the £120 fee is worth it in the long run, or b) convince the organisers that I’m a member of the press (which […]

Chaos is beginning to descend…

I think I might have too many drafts sitting on my dashboard. Do I really want to get rid of them? Or should I take some time to finish them off? I also have a reader full of feeds I hardly look at any more. Should I remove them completely or file them away in […]

Why UC2?

This site has been UC2 for a while now, I’d like to address why I changed it from ‘Under Construction’.

Microsoft is antipiracy? Yeah right…

Read this post which I stumbled across. It seems that some of the .WAV files used in Windows XP were created by a pirated copy of SoundForge. Laugh? I nearly died.
If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that I don’t really think much of Microsoft, especially Vista with all the resource eating DRM shit that […]

Writing is hard

Don’t let anyone tell you different. I apologise to the few regular readers that I have for not posting more regularly but there are mitigating circumstances.
You may remember that I posted a couple of months ago about my new job, writing for a gaming blog, well I’ve been sloggin away at that for a […]