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What Happens When You Don’t Vaccinate. 27 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
So there’s a lot of diseases in the world, ones that were responsible for a lot of human death, that we’d pretty much eradicated. The primary mechanism for this is has been vaccines as they’re the onl...
My Hotel Ritual. 26 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
Whilst I’m not a jet bound workaholic like I thought I’d be when I was this age (ah the naivety of teenagers) I have done my fair share of travel for work. I’ve come to find out that I’m not in either...
Gone Home: Words Seem Like Such Crude Tools. 23 Aug 2013 | 05:20 am
This is the part of my game reviews where I usually wax philosophical about the genre, developer or some other aspect of the game I’m about to review. I’m not going to do that with this review, instea...
I Want To Believe, Soylent. 22 Aug 2013 | 05:58 am
I’m absolutely terrible at cooking. It’s not that I can’t follow a recipe or anything like that, more it’s to do with the fact that I don’t particularly enjoy the cooking process all that much, seeing...
Water From Air. 21 Aug 2013 | 06:01 am
We all know of the moisture contained within air, commonly referred to as humidity. Where I am it’s typically on the low side which has its advantages (evaporative cooling works a treat here) although...
Finally, Games For Windows Live is Going Away. 20 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
Ever since Steam reached a certain level of functionality any game that was distributed on it was kind of expected to make use of it. This isn’t a hard requirement from Valve or anything like that, no...
New Server, New Theme, New Beginnings. 19 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
On the surface this blog hasn’t changed that much. The right hand column had shifted around a bit as I added and subtracted various bits of social integration but for the most part the rest of the sit...
Papers, Please: Arstotzka Welcomes You. 16 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
I’ll have to be honest when I say that when a game comes at me out of no where I have a tendency to shoot them down. All those hours spent shuffling through the Steam store looking for games to review...
Moon Sand (Contains No Actual Moon). 15 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
I’m sure I’m not alone in being someone who loves playing around in the sand at a beach even though I’m pushing 30. My friends and I always seem to end up building some kind of sand castle whenever we...
Microsoft’s Surface RT: It’s Nice, But… 14 Aug 2013 | 06:08 am
Just like any new tech gadget I’ve been ogling tablets for quite some time. Now I’m sure there will be a few who are quick to point out that I said long ago that an ultrabook fills the same niche, at ...
