OK, so I made my first Podcast. The subscribe link is http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+nilespod. The link for the individual episode is here.
This would not have been possible without the detailed instructions ofTroubled Diva who wrote about how to make and listen to Podcasts.
P has heard it through and snorted. Apparently I’ll never get a job with hospital radio.
I’m happy to report that with the help of Stella’s walkthrough, I have caught up to the point in Tomb Raider I that I abandoned it years ago. After about an hour on the Fire Torch room, I finally got through it.
Lots of annoyances. I’m playing it on my laptop, and there are key combinations that are needed by the game that just make my laptop beep.
And of course, this is a Windows 95 game, which is, at best, flakey under XP. In particular, the game freezes at certain points, and the only way out is to kill the instance of the game, start again, and reload the previous saved game.
Unfortunately, these freezes come:
So I’m really having to keep on my toes and cross my fingers, and save frequently.
Last time I was playing this, I was under the impression that the Fire Torch Room was some key pin at the very end of the came. I was sadly mistaken: it’s pretty much exactly halfway through.
So, now that I’ve got this far with the walkthrough, shall I abandon it and play the game for myself? … Probably not…
I’m happy to report that with the help of Stella’s walkthrough, I have caught up to the point in Tomb Raider I that I abandoned it years ago. After about an hour on the Fire Torch room, I finally got through it.
Lots of annoyances. I’m playing it on my laptop, and there are key combinations that are needed by the game that just make my laptop beep.
And of course, this is a Windows 95 game, which is, at best, flakey under XP. In particular, the game freezes at certain points, and the only way out is to kill the instance of the game, start again, and reload the previous saved game.
Unfortunately, these freezes come:
So I’m really having to keep on my toes and cross my fingers, and save frequently.
Last time I was playing this, I was under the impression that the Fire Torch Room was some key pin at the very end of the came. I was sadly mistaken: it’s pretty much exactly halfway through.
So, now that I’ve got this far with the walkthrough, shall I abandon it and play the game for myself? … Probably not…
We popped along to the open day at Nottingham Cats Protection Leage — the photo is of just some of their many cute cats and kittens.
I hate mornings. I have especially mornings when there’s no bread or milk for toast or cereal. BleUrgh. Wake me up properly if something interesting happens.
Aha! Found some. In a councillor’s garden. Enough to fill a punnet, but not enough to jam, so I’ll be freezing them and coming back to them later.
Hmm. Interesting formatting, thanks Flickr.
Ages ago, and I’m talking about *ages* ago, I played a borrowed copy of Tombraider, which I sat up for hours, days playing. I’m hopeless at computer games. They take me weeks and I usually have to download a cheat sheet to tell me what to do because I can’t figure it out on my own.
What made me gave up on Tombraider was an evil room where you had to do everything at once: jump accurately in different directions within a tight time limit. I kept either falling off into some sort of shark infested water, or still being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting burnt alive.
I threw everything at that room, and never quite got through. How, I thought to myself, can I survive all those wild animals, even dinosaurs, for Pete’s sake, and get stumped by flames, sharks, and boxes at awkward angles. Now I’ve found Stella I know how to do it. And if I still can’t actually manage it, I could even download a ‘savegame’ to get me past it. Bless.
Still, that was years ago. I’ve long since lost my saved game, and my copy of Tombraider.
Now, thanks to the miracle of Amazon Shops, I have a new copy of Tombraider for under a pahnd.
I just fired it up. I can’t believe the graphics were that bad! It really must have been ages ago. I’ve been running around shooting things (an ex’s comment when we went to see the first Tombraider movie was something along the lines that hardly any bears, bats, wolves, lions, tigers or other protected species got unceremoniously shot dead. That and sarcastic comments about the backpack being full of rocks just to counterweigh the frontage) but otherwise not getting very far. Still in Caves II. Bah.
Two other things of note. First, I’m really glad I got to practice changing a tyre in the dry and daylight because tonight I had to do it again in the dark and rain–with the added frisson of having to do it at top speed before the bingo closed and locked up the carpark. Evidently the wheel needed replacing not repairing earlier in the week.
It was quite scary. I hadn’t clocked the fact that the tyre was flat again on the way into the car, and reversing and turning out of the space, the car handled like normal But when I came to go forward, it felt just awful. It didn’t feel like a wheel problem, it felt like the engine wasn’t connected properly. It felt very similar to the time the drive shaft dropped out of the Rover. I gingerly went around the carpark a few times trying to figure out what was wrong — was it just first gear, just second? No it does it in all forward gears, but not in reverse. Hmmm… I eventually got out to see if I was dragging something under the car, and immediately clocked the front tyre was not really properly attached to the wheel any more. Far worse than before, when it was just flat.
So, I changed it for the spare for the second time this week. Only this time, as I said, in the dark and wet, kneeling in a puddle, unable to see whether the nuts were hitting home or not. Somehow, I’ve managed to bend the tool you use to take the nuts out. (Tyre iron? Spanner?) But I eventually got home safely.
Secondly, I’ve had to replace my router again. I don’t know what I do to them to kill them so fast. Firstly a cheap but well specced USR router used to overheat and then fail to route unless you turned it off for an hour. Finally stopped using that in favour of a Sweex G wireless router, generously donated by a friend who somehow found himself with two. That died suddenly last night. So now, I have a Sitecom G wireless router instead, and a slap on the wrist from Visa who told me to pay down the balance on my credit card, not spend even more on kit. Well, it was an emergency. I can’t have half the network unable to see the outside world! And Sitecom have a 10 year warranty. I must keep the details safe, I’ve a feeling I’ll be needing them.
Ages ago, and I’m talking about *ages* ago, I played a borrowed copy of Tombraider, which I sat up for hours, days playing. I’m hopeless at computer games. They take me weeks and I usually have to download a cheat sheet to tell me what to do because I can’t figure it out on my own.
What made me gave up on Tombraider was an evil room where you had to do everything at once: jump accurately in different directions within a tight time limit. I kept either falling off into some sort of shark infested water, or still being in the wrong place at the wrong time and getting burnt alive.
I threw everything at that room, and never quite got through. How, I thought to myself, can I survive all those wild animals, even dinosaurs, for Pete’s sake, and get stumped by flames, sharks, and boxes at awkward angles. Now I’ve found Stella I know how to do it. And if I still can’t actually manage it, I could even download a ‘savegame’ to get me past it. Bless.
Still, that was years ago. I’ve long since lost my saved game, and my copy of Tombraider.
Now, thanks to the miracle of Amazon Shops, I have a new copy of Tombraider for under a pahnd.
I just fired it up. I can’t believe the graphics were that bad! It really must have been ages ago. I’ve been running around shooting things (an ex’s comment when we went to see the first Tombraider movie was something along the lines that hardly any bears, bats, wolves, lions, tigers or other protected species got unceremoniously shot dead. That and sarcastic comments about the backpack being full of rocks just to counterweigh the frontage) but otherwise not getting very far. Still in Caves II. Bah.
Two other things of note. First, I’m really glad I got to practice changing a tyre in the dry and daylight because tonight I had to do it again in the dark and rain–with the added frisson of having to do it at top speed before the bingo closed and locked up the carpark. Evidently the wheel needed replacing not repairing earlier in the week.
It was quite scary. I hadn’t clocked the fact that the tyre was flat again on the way into the car, and reversing and turning out of the space, the car handled like normal But when I came to go forward, it felt just awful. It didn’t feel like a wheel problem, it felt like the engine wasn’t connected properly. It felt very similar to the time the drive shaft dropped out of the Rover. I gingerly went around the carpark a few times trying to figure out what was wrong — was it just first gear, just second? No it does it in all forward gears, but not in reverse. Hmmm… I eventually got out to see if I was dragging something under the car, and immediately clocked the front tyre was not really properly attached to the wheel any more. Far worse than before, when it was just flat.
So, I changed it for the spare for the second time this week. Only this time, as I said, in the dark and wet, kneeling in a puddle, unable to see whether the nuts were hitting home or not. Somehow, I’ve managed to bend the tool you use to take the nuts out. (Tyre iron? Spanner?) But I eventually got home safely.
Secondly, I’ve had to replace my router again. I don’t know what I do to them to kill them so fast. Firstly a cheap but well specced USR router used to overheat and then fail to route unless you turned it off for an hour. Finally stopped using that in favour of a Sweex G wireless router, generously donated by a friend who somehow found himself with two. That died suddenly last night. So now, I have a Sitecom G wireless router instead, and a slap on the wrist from Visa who told me to pay down the balance on my credit card, not spend even more on kit. Well, it was an emergency. I can’t have half the network unable to see the outside world! And Sitecom have a 10 year warranty. I must keep the details safe, I’ve a feeling I’ll be needing them.
Troubled Diva has some info on how to make and listen to Podcasts. I am intrigued. Perhaps this is the perfect way of accompanying my recent wittering about scrobbling. I don’t immediately have 3 hours to spend, and I’m not sure I can record things in the middle of the night with disturbing those around me.
I have just agreed to take part in “I’m a Councillor, Get Me Out of Here”. I don’t know what this entails. Perhaps I should have found out more before agreeing.
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