Monthly Archives: August 2011

Happy Birthday TF2!

It’s hard to believe but Team Fortress 2 is really 15 years old! Well, strictly speaking the franchise is 15 years old but who am I to raise that point on such a day?

To celebrate they’re giving every player who plays today a free hat and other goodies. You’ll also see other birthday party related changes to the game like cake and presents instead of health and ammo packs. Check out the screenshots below!

Quite enjoying Multiwinia fun little game

Quite enjoying Multiwinia, fun little game. I’m playing it on Easy difficulty, but even on that I lost a game or two.

The “advanced topics” tutorial could be a little clearer. It’s easy to miss the “You must do this next to go on to the next step” banners. I spent a good 10 minutes attacking yellow on their island, defeated them, and suddenly they were firing salvo upon salvo of comets and airstrikes. When you follow the instructions it’s much simpler!

Saying that, it’s wonderful seeing your little armies advance upon the enemy and the pow-pow of laser fire mingled with the screams and shouts of the little stick men if you zoom in close is engaging. Fly up high and all you’ll hear is the lonely wind blowing. Up close is where the action is.

A really simple way to archive your Tweets

  1. You have a gmail account don’t you? Visit Google Reader now.
  2. Click on the “Add a Subscription” button.
  3. Type in the web address of your Twitter profile. Mine is http://twitter.com/donncha.
  4. Click Add.
  5. There is no #5.
Since Google Reader doesn’t have the 3,200 post limit that Twitter has you can always get access to your old tweets, even when you go over that limit. On the downside, your Twitter account can’t be private and Google will find out yet more about you (but they probably already indexed your Twitter account anyway so no loss there!)