Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Can’t Say ‘Thanks’ for ScummVM?

Posted September 6, 2006 0 Comments

ScummVM violates [Paypal's] Acceptable Usage Policy, as it allows games to be played on systems for which they were not originally sold. #

Paypal have written a letter to the creators of ScummVM (Wiki) telling them to cease using their services for collecting tips and donations… its in a gray area concerning the law, but bugger that. ScummVM is an emulator of the engine required to run classics such as “Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis“, the SCUMM system was developed by two individuals; Aric Wilmunder and Ron Gilbert in 1987 later to be picked up by LucasArts and used in some of the first PC Games I owned and played. Today the source code is open but doesn’t appear to have progressed into the OS X(P) world.

This is where ScummVM comes in - it is the only (decent) way to play the games you owned or purchased back in ‘94 on your Dell, Mac or Mobile Phone. If you want to say ‘Thank You’ to the ScummVM team Paypal won’t help you do it.

How about you send them an e-mail with your thoughts on the matter: aup@paypal.com.

“Go Away, No Jumpers Here”

Posted September 4, 2006 0 Comments

…at fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky—falling through time as well as through space. The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame—the Falling Man—became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew’s photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment… #

New Job, New City

Posted September 3, 2006 2 Comments

well tomorrow i start my 9-5 life, validating the selection i have made for years in drop-down boxes for all manner of sign-up forms. tomorrow my occupation really will be “print & design”. that’s enough about work i still have my weekends free, and what a town to be free in.

Edinburgh is one of those pretty cities people come from miles around to walk around and be touristy in. i invite you to do the same and know i have a flat(share) you’ll have to come stay with us. the flat is pretty cool, and located not 10 minutes walk from Prince’s Street. we have a record player and some bobby dylan along with many, many more classics. everything’s fairly spacious and really quite affordable compared to the horror stories i’d heard about living in our capital. i have a view of the castle, arthur’s seat and carlton hill… also a pretty good overview of a grey parking lot and some of the nicest re-developments Leith has to offer.

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