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Monthly Archive October, 2012

Once Again, Terrorism Is Used to Justify Spying… And Worse

Even if these news pieces are about a week old now, I just noticed them yesterday, when I checked my e-mail and saw them linked to in the Access newsletter, and they’re definitely worth drawing more attention to. If such things are allowed to slip past, we’re not even talking about trading privacy for security […]

HDD Issues Again…

One of my HDDs is quite clearly about to bite the dust, making very worrying sounds and twice freezing my system intermittently while it sounded like it was trying to get unstuck. It’s possible that it’s the old one, which I only put in for backup purposes, meaning that I won’t need to go through […]

Project Eternity, Other Big Kickstarter Game Projects and GOG.com’s Latest Announcements

As the title suggests, this post will deal with multiple recent events that have to do with gaming, even though they may not necessarily be directly related to each other. Most of them are connected through the use of Kickstarter, but I’ll also mention the latest announcements coming from GOG.com, since they were only made […]

It’s All Downhill from Here…

The latest studies I heard of state that, on average, human bodies start to degrade, both physically and mentally, at the age of 28. Supposedly sustained training can make this degradation practically unnoticeable until around 35, and mental abilities that have been developed at a young age and rely on performing repetitive actions are an […]

Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We

Even though I’m clearly not up to making enough sense to participate myself, so didn’t register this year, I would like to remind everyone that Blog Action Day is tomorrow and that this year’s theme is “The Power of We”, so it makes perfect sense to participate if you think you’re able because, well, being […]