Paranoimia

SYMA S018 Aurora & S026G Mini Chinook

Paranoimia — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:45 +0000

After a bit of a break, I recently started flying my Apache helicopter again, and enjoyed it as much as ever. So much so that I got fed up waiting for it to recharge ready for the next flight, and – yes – bought some more. First up, we have the SYMA S018 Aurora –…

Pick a card… any card… but not from Clintons!

Paranoimia — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:08:04 +0000

UPDATE – 22 December 2011: In the interests of fairness, I am happy to report that Clintons have put things right – and then some! Having already received a refund for the card and expecting no further action, yesterday I received a phone call from Tim Fairs, Clintons’ Marketing Director. He was extremely apologetic about…

I finally ‘jumped in’

Paranoimia — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:04:46 +0000

Well, it wasn’t so much a ‘jump’ – more a case of dipping my toe in the water, only to be grabbed by the lurking beast that is Forza 4 and held under until I was too weak to resist. But yes, I finally bought an Xbox 360. Better late than never I came very…

Vita game pricing will be interesting

Paranoimia — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:30:56 +0000

I’ve just been reading an article on the Official PlayStation Magazine UK website, which contains lots of PlayStation Vita launch information – including the pricing structure for Vita games. I found these comments very interesting… While it’s fairly safe to assume that AAA titles such as Uncharted will retail around this £40-£50 mark, there will…

My first published program

Paranoimia — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:30:06 +0000

Yesterday, I was looking through some old images on my PC, trying to tidy things up and maybe reclaim a little space, and found some scans I took a couple of years ago from an old magazine. I was going to upload them to my ‘old’ website, but never got around to it. Thought I’d…

Mika’s new ‘play station’

Paranoimia — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:00:30 +0000

Mika recently turned 2 and we wanted to get him something to encourage him to be a little more active outside, so we bought a new activity frame from Catplay Stations. We’d previously bought the Almond unit, and he loves running up the ladder and sitting on the top platform – so we thought we’d…

…but I already own them!

Paranoimia — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:48:22 +0000

Just a quick post regarding the PSN ‘Welcome Back’ package which SCEE have just detailed. Lots of complaints so far, and to be honest, I saw it coming, so I’m not really surprised. Personally, I own (or have owned) 4 of the 5 PS3 games offered, and 2 of the 4 PSP games offered. I…

Watch out for those crosswinds!

Paranoimia — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:40:57 +0000

Having endured the hell that is the first lawn cutting of the year, and with no sign of the rain which the MET office had promised us for the weekend, I decided yesterday that it was the perfect opportunity to get the batteries charged up and take my helicopters out into the garden for the…

A bit of a rant

Paranoimia — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:36:43 +0000

Earlier today, Twitter buddy and fellow PS3 user @ps3mutt brought to my attention the pretty shameless marketing of a certain online retailer. They had Tweeted that they had a number of copies of MotorStorm Apocalypse for sale, and provided photographic evidence via TwitPic. Besides ignoring Sony’s decision to postpone the release of the game for…

PSN Online Storage

Paranoimia — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:00:55 +0000

First blog post since December, and it was going to be a brief one. Didn’t quite turn out that way, though! The following are just some thoughts and ideas about the new PlayStation Network Online Storage feature, which arrived with firmware 3.60, and the future of PlayStation Plus. The new Online Storage feature (OS from…