We were having a conversation in the office about old computers and games and it got me wondering about my old ZX Spectrum and the hours of my life I wasted on playing games on that machine, so I popped off onto the good old interwebby and had a reminisce. Here’s the screenshots of some of the cutting edge games I wondered at…

Update: I’ve been and downloaded a ZXC Spectrum emulator

As a first off experiment they’re quite good, I shall post some more as I do them.

Update : Added 6 more photographs to the gallery from our other car.

Right, this is my Friday morning rant and it’s inspired by the stupidity of Facebook and factions that perpetuate the use of ‘English (US)’ and ‘English (UK)’.

I noticed it on the new Facebook settings and would like to point out THERE’S ONLY ONE ENGLISH it’s ENGLISH. The Americans don’t have another language, it’s ENGLISH, they speak ENGLISH. Why do they want their own language? The Australians don’t have English (Aus) and the Canadians don’t have English (Can). Or am I wrong? Do they have choices in the software they install? Do the Scottish get English (Scot) and the Welsh, English (Welsh)? I think not. So why are the Americans so important as to have their own bloody language? It’s ENGLISH, get over yourselves!!!

I blame Mr Gates, he introduced it.

Newton’s Cradle is another one of those apps that’s pretty useless as far as functionality goes but it’s just great fun. What does it do? It replicates the old 70’s office toy by using real world physics and clash detection to make a very realistic Newton’s Cradle. Cool!!

Ohhhhh and it makes good use of the accelerometer too.

This app doesn’t really do much except roll a number of dice, that’s it, but it does this beautifully. The animation and real world crash detection is simply sublime. Just shake your iphone and watch the dice roll around and come to rest on your score. You can choose how many dice and from a number of different patterns. This is the lite version of a poker dice game by the same company which I guess will be excellent. As I don’t know how to play dice poker I won’t be partaking in this app, I’ll just sit mesmerised, looking at the beautiful rolling dice for an hour or two.

The new wine warehouse, Majestic, on St Mary’s Road in Market Harborough has begun work. The ground has been broken and concrete pilings have been sunk.

But what does this mean for the town of Market Harborough? Well I’m guessing that this was one of the final nails in the coffin of the Threshers franchise, that and Bargain Booze and apart from that no adverse effect will be felt by other stores, maybe the supermarkets, but hey they make enough profit. Hopefully, having a store at that end of St Mary’s Road will help invigorate that area of town.

The only other worry that may arise is that if the under 18 policing policy of Majestic is lapse then there may be a few drunken minors on Symington wreck.