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New Banner and Comments Now Open

ian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:57:01 +0000

Below is a banner which I had made for this blog. I will be adding it to computerforum.com in the future, to help promote the site.

Also, this blog will have more of a stand alone element, in that I will not be linking to posts at computerforum.com for discussion, but instead will be leaving all new posts open for comments.

Latest Forum News – 11th January 2009

ian — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:59:24 +0000

1. The site was down for a short while today while I upgraded the forum to the latest vbulletin version 3.8.0. If anybody notices any errors, be sure to let me know.

2. mep916 was appointed as a Super Moderator today. Nobody likes spam on the forum, so having an extra person on hand who can delete spam, especially some of the obscene material that sometimes gets posted, should definitely come in handy. Thanks mep916 for volunteering.

3. The following three members were made VIP members, Scout, Calibretto, and TFT.

This post can be discussed here.

Favourite movies of 2008

ian — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:18:30 +0000

Well, there was no poll, but I did a rough count of the movies that computerforum.com members voted as their favourite for 2008 and the results were as follows:

1. The Dark Knight, with 23 votes, no surprise here.

2. Iron Man, with 9 votes, my last minute vote bumped it into second spot.

3. Wall-E with 8 votes. Personally I did not like this movie.

The vote thread is here.

War Games – The Dead Code

ian — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:01:38 +0000

Well I spotted this in the video rental store, the fact they had only one copy of it, suggested it would no doubt be a b-grade movie. Sure enough it was an average movie, but for fans of the original War Games, made 25 years ago, this movie was a must see.
This movie was made in 2008 and billed as the sequel to the original War Games. Personally I would have preferred if they had remade the original for today and tried to add a degree of realism to the movie. But alas, that was not to be. The highlight of the movie was the appearance of WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) with its 5.25″ floppy drive. One downside of the movie, was that at times, it looked like one big advertisement for Pringles Chips, when you see the movie, you will know.
I would rate the movie 5 out of 10. Discussion Thread here.

Christmas Presents

ian — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:34:02 +0000

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, all I got was cash, but then I bought my own presents a couple of weeks before Christmas.

I just read through all 15 pages of this thread to see what fellow CF members got, looks like Santa bought mep916 what he wanted.

But the coolest christmas present ever, that I saw anyone get was this present Shoemoney received from Intel.

Full details on exactly what he received can be found here. Hey, I am a fan of Intel as well, computerforum.com has over 1,000,000 posts and they have not send me even a free mousepad. That monitor he got in the photo is the exact same one I want to buy next. the samsung T240R. I am a big Samsung fan, I recently bought a 32″ Full HD LCD Samsung Series 6 TV that was excellent, but the 22″ 2243BW monitor I bought, I was extremely disappointed in.