The Qwertyrash Blogs

You’ve heard about ‘em, and I’ve got ‘em too. Lots of aches and pains from playing on the Nintendo Wii. Surprisingly though, the most painful injury has been a strained muscle in my backside from ever stretching playing bowling. Not the sport you’d expect an injury.

The Wii, if nothing else, will tone up my upper body (as best it can) and increase my fitness a little.

If you haven’t got a Wii, get one, it’s worth it - injuries and all.

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Stumbled across this recent interview, Disposing with Disposability, on Utne which really struck a chord. It’s worth a read.

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If you’ve been on another planet for a while, you might not have heard of the next generation games console from Nintendo, the Wii, which gets you off the couch.

And even if you have, check out these cool videos of average person playing the Wii for the first time.

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I’m back from a few days holiday at the beach and I’ve got to tell you about my new watch. It’s magical.

I haven’t worked out how to harness its magical powers, but when I do, look out!

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Peter Wright, an accomplished author who has been writing about Microsoft technologies since Visual Basic 3 (including some best selling Visual Basic books), recently decided to drop Microsoft completely and switch to Macintosh and Ruby on Rails. In this blog posts he details the circumstances that led to his decision.
This is one of the best […]

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One user gives a nice run down of the value of using a Mac for making music.
“After years of putting it off, I finally succumbed to the world of Apple and bought myself a new MacBook. Two months after buying it I feel it is time to give my fellow musicians the heads up on […]

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I was just reading an interesting piece on the greatest years in video game history. They start with 1980, talking about Pac-Man, Space Invaders and others. You look at the basic graphics and smile with a warm nostalgic feeling, you realise the graphics are no match for a game that came out that same year, one that they also mention.

It is in fact a game who’s graphics have never been surpassed since.

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Sooner or later you need a font. So I’ve put together this post which is a lists of a few sites dedicated to free fonts.

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I read with great interest about a study in the USA that found that road accident deaths on highways went down over the last 10 years after the increasing of speed limits.Read about it on the Wall Street Journal: Safe at Any Speed Here in Victoria, Australia there has been a very questionable campaign featuring the slogan “Wipe of 5 and save lives”.

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The Web page that started them all, created by Tim Berners-Lee.
Check out a bit of history. It’s not often you can see the first of anything.
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