Palin’s first time driving a 360 degree excavator

I’ve got some landscape gardeners in from Landcraft Designs to put in a new patio this week, and they very kindly let me have a play with their 360 degree excavator. All that yellow and black JCB steel and throbbing engine, how could I resist. Unfortunately the video doesn’t show it, but I carefully place [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Palin's PadPosted on June 23rd, 2008

Checkout our cool new Messenger Bag!

We’re all excited and full of bubbles in the XTR office this morning, as our swanky new XTR Ogio Hip Hop Messenger Bag landed in our little mits. Within an hour our marketing team had the photographer in for a photo session. Seven and a half minutes later, the image was in our shop. [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Palin's Pad, XTR stuffPosted on June 12th, 2008

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

I was reading an article on Games Radar about the new game, Lego Indiana Jones: The Orginal Adventures and was amused by a comment under the image…
“All images in this article are from the 360 version, so don’t expect it to actually look this good”
Have you seen the boulder?!! My Speccy produced better graphics than [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Gaming Stuff, Palin's PadPosted on June 9th, 2008

Windows Vista - a view on stability

Is it my imagination or has Windows Vista just become a little more stable with the release of Service Pack 1? As an IT bod I get a little play-time with OS’s, and my opinion has been pretty much the same as 80% (made up stat) of the IT community. “Vista is not stable”. So [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Palin's PadPosted on May 22nd, 2008

Beer fans develop Peeing Game

Oh dear, it’s finally happened. Two Belgian beer fans have written a game which is controlled/driven (er, not sure what adjective to use here) by peeing on a sensor. I’m wondering if they got the idea from the Wii?
Source : Reuters

No Comments »Filed under: Palin's PadPosted on May 22nd, 2008

Welcome to Palin’s Pad

Welcome to Palin’s Pad. Another place for gamers, nerds and geeks to hang out whilst resting from their RSI-related injuries. I hope you enjoy your stay. If not, only a tardis can help you. Talking of which, in 1976 (I think), I owned a Doctor Who tardis toy. It was great. You put Dr Who [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Palin's PadPosted on May 20th, 2008