Monthly Archives: May 2012

May
29
2012

Exporting attachments from your mailbox

by The Illusive Man

Readers may remember that a while ago I wrote a little utility which would allow you to export all the attachments on all the mail messages in a single folder in your Outlook mailbox, whether it was in an offline PST file, or located on an Exchange server. Well, I’ve re-written the application in its [...]

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May
27
2012

Mass Effect: The ending

by The Illusive Man

I mentioned in my review yesterday that the ending to Mass Effect 3 caused a bit of a stir. Whilst browsing YouTube for videos for my review I found a couple of videos which summed up the problems nicely. One video saying: “Three games and 5 years, and all I get to choose is the [...]

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May
26
2012

Mass Effect 3 – Reviewed

by The Illusive Man

Well. Where to begin? No one can have avoided hearing about Mass Effect 3 – the concluding instalment in BioWare’s epic sci-fi trilogy has been extensively marketed by EA, and had done a few laps of the controversy circuit before anyone actually managed to get their hands on a copy. I’d best deal with that [...]

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May
25
2012

Photo Phriday – Keeping cool

by The Illusive Man

With all this lovely weather we’ve been having, keeping cool is something we’re all going to be doing at some point, and these animals have got it down to a fine art! Personally, I’d settle for a whisky on the rocks, or a G&T in a tall glass with a stack of ice…

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May
22
2012

How did the Euro start?

by The Illusive Man

Baldrick: What I want to know, Sir, is before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there’s only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to [...]

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May
21
2012

Cosmic laws

by The Illusive Man

Fundamental laws of the cosmos: Law of Mechanical Repair – After your hands get covered with grease, your nose will itch and you’ll have to pee. Law of Gravity – Any tool, nut, bolt or screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe. Law of Probability – The probability of [...]

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May
21
2012

Europe finally awakes from its utopian dream

by The Illusive Man

Found this article from The Telegraph, by Janet Daly interesting: Let’s say this again, just in case a single sentient being on the planet has missed it: Germany cannot simply decide to bail Greece (or Spain, or Italy, etc) out of its debts. OK? However much Angela Merkel is nagged, berated, bullied and patronised by [...]

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May
20
2012

The 2000-year-old computer

by The Illusive Man

This natty looking thing is called the Antikythera Mechanism. I’ve just finished watching a documentary on it – you can catch it on iPlayer until 22 May. Designed and built in the 1st century BC by Archimedes, this remarkable device is capable of displaying the motion of the planets as they appear in the sky [...]

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May
20
2012

Superpower beat-down: Vader vs Gandalf

by The Illusive Man

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May
19
2012

Critical damage

by The Illusive Man

Well. Where to start. Was heading through Euston station to get my train this morning, when I reached THE ESCALATOR. I have defeated this encounter many times in the past, but this time it appeared to have Taken A Level In Badass and upgraded itself to a full-blown Boss Battle. This thing cast a Fumble [...]

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