Asia Tsunami

I know a lot of guys from deviantART and some of my friends from other forums are from some of the affected areas (one of those being MythrilNazgul) so if you have any spare cash lying around please donate it to one of the charity organizations involved. A big list of links can be found in the OCR thread at the bottom of this post or in the DA news story (also linked). Whatever you would buy with the money is gonna be there next payday so don't be selfish.

OCR Thread

DA News Story

Those of the button clicking nature can donate through SupportAsia.org. You'll find a button down in the sidebar.

Phone

So I said yesterday I had a new phone for christmas. I've been doing some serious work on it today.

Wallpaper

This is the one I set after uploading a few others. If you want to make me a wallpaper then the dimensions to use are 176x200.

Photos

Here's one of the photos I've been taking with my phone.

Ringtones
I currently have the ballroom theme from Final Fantasy 8 as my voice call tone, The invincibility theme from Sonic 3D as a video call tone and the stage intro jingle from Megaman X as a message tone. I got all my tones free from VGMusic.com and then uploaded them to my phone.

Music
I have a single mp3 on my memory card and that is Someday by the Sonic Underground.

Videos
I'm making sure to check out the latest news and sport on my mobile. I get both delivered every day. As well as that I've got music videos from Maroon 5, Dizzee Rascal and Kaiser Chiefs. I also watch the best of MTV.

Games
I have the whole Yeti Sports (aka Twat the Penguin) series and a cool vertical shooter.

So that's my mobile.



NJ's mobile is an NEC e616 and is powered by 3

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Christmas Presents

Want to know what I got? Here's the list.

Halo 2 (COME ON!!)
Halo 2 Strategy Guide (slightly insulting)
Webcam (slightly disturbing)
Mini Digicam (even more disturbing)
Lynx Radio Set (insulting)
Rollerball Edge Game (Gadget Shop = cool)
LCD Alarm Clock (more Gadget Shop)
3 Giftbox (oh yeah, free downloads for a month)
Liverpool Away Shirt (keep the love)
Liverpool Calendar (heh heh)
GLC Greatest Hits (COME ON!! again)
Beyblade Annual (someone was paying attention)
Mega Pack of Jaffa Cakes (I WAS TRYING TO GIVE UP!)

So now you know.

The Christmas Webcomics

I read 6 different webcomics (though I know people who read 10 times that number) which are all in the links to the right. I decided to do a round-up of how those 6 have tackled Christmas.

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida hasn't really done a christmas comic though it could be interpreted as the nightmare before christmas.

Penny Arcade
Tycho and Gabe round off their awesome year with The Last Christmas. A special book presentation depicting the destruction of christmas. Nice one guys,

VG Cats
Aeris and Leo take a break and make way for now frequent webcomic character Gordon Freeman. He's opening his presents and as usual finds a lump of shit from his pet headcrab. Christmassy and takes the piss at the same time. VG Cats is still my favourite.

Ctrl+Alt+Del
Tim Buckley really pushed out the boat to produce a heart warming comic. Ethan and Lucas mourn the destruction of their christmas tree and presents (as seen in Wednesday's comic) and find that their friends are all they need on christmas time. Brilliant and something I really didn't see coming from the CAD team.

Sore Thumbs
I really like this comic. Owen and Chris break off their ongoing storyline to let the cast and characters wish the readers a merry christmas. Apart from Fairbanks who's just a miserable asshole.

PvP
I'm kinda getting pissed off with this lot. They've had the christmas thing going on for a while now and it's just gone stale. For christmas eve they have a dog and a cat arguing over who plays baby Jesus in a nativity play *yawns*.

In general it's a good christmas for the webcomics and seeing as how all of them delivered on christmas eve (except PA) it's great to see their dedication to their public on show. Merry Christmas w00ters and don't get too smashed.

Merry Christmas!!

I doubt I'll be posting anything now until Boxing Day so thanks for reading over the past few months. For making this year memorable I'd like to thank all my mates, everyone on all the sites I work/post on (IfritRoms.com, UKGameshows, deviantART, Overclocked Remix, Blogger, HQ Software, Gmail Swap, Challenge) and everyone else who's contacted me for whatever reason. Have a very merry christmas and remember to stock up well on batteries.

Peace y'all
NJ

The Challenge Days of Christmas!!

On the 9th of this month the members of the Challenge forums banded together to create The Challenge Days of Christmas. This is a gameshow themed version of The 12 Days of Christmas. Please don't take the piss as it took a while to write, even amongst all of us.

The Challenge Days of Christmas
On the 1st day of christmas Challenge gave to me
Fort Boyard in the French sea.

On the 2nd day of christmas Challenge gave to me
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 3rd day of christmas Challenge gave to me
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 4th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 5th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 6th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 7th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 8th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
8 Krypton courses
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 9th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
9 P'ing students
8 Krypton courses
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 10th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
10 moles betraying
9 P'ing students
8 Krypton courses
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 11th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
11 4 choice questions
10 moles betraying
9 P'ing students
8 Krypton courses
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLIES!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

On the 12th day of christmas Challenge gave to me
12 Hot dog guzzlers
11 4 choice questions
10 moles betraying
9 P'ing students
8 Krypton courses
7 Rainbow Warriors
6 Gladiators
5 BENDY BULLYS!!
4 Folly riddles
3 strange straight lines
2 royal flushes
and Fort Boyard in the French sea

Yesterday JamesP (of the official Challenge team) came to the forum to inform us that he'd be singing it this year and BoyardQueen informed us that she'd accidentally sung it during a carol service. We're working on getting the Challenge bods to sing it on the channel over Christmas, I'll let you know if that happens.

Song Credits
Original Idea - deb03
Days 1+10 - BoyardQueen
Day 2 - bananaman_007
Days 3, 6, 9, 11, 12 and song editing - njsykora
Day 4 - BillyH
Day 5 - MPK
Day 7 - Porsmond
Day 8 - Games_Master

Change of Plan

I'll post the review of the year when I've finished it. That won't be today.

On a Mother-Fucking Roll!!

Wooo Hooo!! 2 done. The Fightbox article on UK Gameshows was written by me. I think I'm finally getting the hang of this Wikipedia business. Click the post title for the article.

Other Blogging

I've always kinda wondered why other companies try blogging services. Blogger does pretty much everything (and then some) so why other companies try it and then censor some content is beyond me. I used LiveJournal a while back (that site's still alive I think) but since then I've just developed w00tworld on Blogger. It'll stay here don't you worry, I ain't going nowhere.

Preparing for Emergencies

Web User called it the most irresponsible thing they'd ever seen.
The government didn't like it so they sued it's creator (not only in America people).
Betty Swallocks from Swansea didn't have anything to say about it as she's dead.

They didn't get it but whether you live in the UK or the US you'll find this site brilliant. One of the funniest things I've seen this year and the guy has shown me that he's one of the most versatile people on the net. He also works on the UK Gameshows site and on Defending the Fox. To complete his absolute perfection he's also been on Blockbusters! Check out his site and the fake Preparing for Emergencies site, they combine to be one of the funniest sites on the net.

Extract from the site

Welcome to the Preparing for Emergencies web site.

This summer we are sending an information booklet 'Preparing for Emergencies - What you need to know' to every home in the UK. While it won't panic people, it'll hopefully convince them to reelect me and all of my Labour cronies next year.

We are also launching a national advertising campaign letting you know to look out for the booklet coming through your letterboxes during August. In no way does this resemble the Reader's Digest Prize Draw.

Fake Preparing for Emergencies site

Thomas Scott's main site

In case the government sue me, the real Preparing for Emergencies site