No sign of the nipper yet.
On other news…bought a new mouse. My old Apple optical was on it’s last legs having already had a fault in the cable once and having been fixed by Kieran once but it’s not really usable. So, I plonked down 25 quid and bought a Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse. It’s a nice mouse – not as “solid” feeling as the Apple one and the scroll wheel – although extremely cool and something I have on my work PC – seems a bit wobbly. Can’t complain really. Mac OS X, despite being designed to work with a single mouse button, works great with the second and the scroller.
And while I was in Curry’s, I took 5 minutes and picked up the controller for their demo XBox. THIRTY MINUTES LATER I put it down. The game running was Halo – a game that was meant to be out for the Mac and PC two years ago but it has been delayed and had to be written from scratch for the XBox. It’ll not appear for the Mac til the XBox with Halo has sold well in every country in the world. It’s not technology holding it back…it’s Microshaft.
Anyway – it’s a good game – it’s not 360 quid good – but it’s fun. The controller is awful though as FPS games are meant to be used with a mouse. It just is annoying the way that it is. Made it a lot harder to play!
Also…the old Curry’s store is going to be turned into a PC World. That’s not much of a surprise. I’ve been harping about that for flipping ages.