A little late with a somewhat reduced linkage this week, but I have been busy. I’m almost at inbox zero (down from almost a thousand).

• Senny Dreadful has some advice on advice.
• Igor make an interesting post about the rectangle.
• Jamie asks what’s better than a beer after work?
• Mailwatch asks did the government really secretly plot to change the face of Britain?
• lonewolfrepose warns us to beware bead doorways and suggests we get rid of figure skating
• Remix64 has a new site structure

Hopefully back to normal on Friday.

A couple of things for you, firstly I’ve got a new blog called  crappyremix about my progress towards deliberately making some of the worst c64 Remixes ever.

Secondly a little update my lent fasting.

• Tea – I’ve stuck to having only one cup of Tea at breakfast time. This is a major achievement for me.
• Fizzy Pop – Not touched any pop despite being teased by Cherry Lucazade a couple of times
• Sweets/Chocolate – Had a one little sweet, as I forgot I was off them, but other than that nothing.
• Downloading Crap – This one hasn’t gone so well. I wanted to keep the downloading to the weekend, but haven’t managed it.
• Naughty Films – I never would touch such evil things anyway, so no problem.
• Staying up Late – Doing well with this have gone to bed early (by my usually standards) every night.
• Chips – Had some in the Town on Saturday, well nobody is prefect.

The family has been supportive, and by supportive I mean they’ve been asking me to make Tea and sending me to shop to buy them chocolate.

It’s the last Monday in February so it’s the last Amiga Music Monday. I’ve saved the best until last, composed by my close personal friend Allister Brimble (we’ve never met) it’s the title tune from the Team 17 classic Alien Breed.

I’m full of flu today.

• Look it’s Scambaiter SandraThompson205 Part 2 
• The question “I wanna make music? Where to start?” is answered by moonove.
• This is The *ULTIMATE Productivity Blog*
• and this is srslyawesomestuff
• Leoni has a Job Interview April 2009
• lonewolfrepose goes to the-apple-store  says that chocolate-is-overrated and a food scale is required.
• Jungian-poohl can be found in Igor’s darkened corner
• mountainmanjunior has more fun in white stuff.
• Charlie Brooker is an eBook convert.
• It’s valentines day for mercuryvapour
• What really? exclaims Anton
• http://www.chickyog.net/2010/02/15/humanitarian-intervention-revisited/ has a rather sad story to tell.
• Merman and Doctor Mowinckel talk about the Winter games
• Minute44 has move movie recommendations.
• Finally Lemon Pillows explains the burden of being sensitive.

Bleh, more next week.

Good Times Comics is a webcomic, and it’s funny. What more do you need to know?

Link: http://goodtimescomics.com/

It’s the time of year that Christians, and a few non-believers like myself, indulge a large amount of pancakes and then see if they can give up something they like for forty days.

I have no shortage of things to give up for, and I’ve even been given some suggestions (shared by the person named in the brackets)

• Tea – Well I can’t give up Tea completely, but I could try and cut it down to one cup a day.
• Fizzy Pop (John) – I don’t drink pop that often, so I’ll go for this.
• Sweets/Chocolate – I have the occasional Chocolate, but I can go without.
• Downloading Crap – Will I can’t go with downloading my crap, but I can keep it to the weekends.
• Naughty Films – I never would touch such evil things anyway.
• Staying up Late – Yeah, I need to knock the late nights on the head anyway
• Chips (pramblingpaul) – Well, they are very bad for me, so why not?
• Internet/Computer (darren) – Absolutely no chance.
• Sarcasm (matthewthompson) – Again absolutely no chance (I did try, but only lasted a few hours)
• Procrastination (Bill) – I wish I could give this one up.
• Cheese (lonewolfrepose) – Why? I like cheese to much to give it up, also it’s in most of the stuff I eat.
• Transformers (jim) – They are all boxed up and hidden away anyway. I think the terrible films ruined them for me.
• Pointless exercises in self improvement that last a few days under a religious justification. (Pete) – NEVER!!!

So I’m giving up a few things and reducing some others. Lets see how long this lasts, do you think I will be able to manage the full 40 days for any of them?

You may have noticed this rather dramatic image. However don’t fear, I’m not acting out for the attention (well, at least not anymore than normal). It’s just a little note to say I’m going to be reducing the amount of time I spend on the internet, as I want to prioritise other areas of my life.  I’m going to try and manage my internet time more effectively so hopefully you won’t see a big change in the number of blogs posts.

One thing I want to be doing more is hitting the town on a Saturday night, and this I’ve been arranging nights out with my old mates. They are particularly hard bunch to pin down, but we enjoyed a great night out together and the end on last month. I’d forgotten my camera, so sadly I’ve got no pictures, but it was a really great night. We’ve got another night out planned for the end of this month.

I’ve recently knocked out some new ObscureInternet Posts, including a new three part scam baiter. Part one is available now and the next couple of parts will be up in the next two weeks.

Gaming wise, after playing Saints Row 2 almost to death (I’m about 82% complete, but all the stuff that’s left isn’t as fun as the rest so I’ll leave it for now) I’ve picked up a couple of new (and more importantly cheap) PS3 games, they are GTA IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Cut scenes of the Patriots. Conor bought himself Lego Indiana Jones 2 for the PS3 and we also got Let’s Dance but I haven’t had a proper go of it yet.

The Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games is again taking place at Teesside University, and as part of this Conor got two tickets to see UP and the Cineworld in the town.

While we were at Cineworld we bumped into Darth Vader and  a few other Star Wars characters and I even managed to say the ‘Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?’ line and it was in context as he was about the same height as me.

The film itself was brilliant and despite seeing it in 2010 it is definitely my movie of 2009 (beating even District 9) and my been getting old and sentimental but those scenes at the beginning of the movie really got to me, also Russell is awesome.

For this weeks Amiga Music Monday I share the Introduction tune from Lotus 2 composed by the often under-rated Barry Leitch.

I’ve got links you’ll never believe

• This week top link is the brillant Scambaiter – SandraThompson205 – Part 1 even I do say so myself.
• Stormkeeper is Star Trekkin’ across the universe… oh and reminiscing
• Grandmaster Flash was the original DJ explains Igor
• LoneWolf Repose has a facebook-survival-guide, the Twitter bongtia method and loads more good stuff
• Anton’s Enemies of reason has moved
• and so has Andy’s Retro Computers
• Anna Black is attaining hampstead.
• Jesus and Mo celebrate Valentines’ day.

And that’s your lot.

The System is a daily comic-strip style mess starring iconography and graphics most notable from street and wayfinding signage.

Link: http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/