A few quick links for some retro-style gaming: OpenTyrian, an SDL port of the classic Tyrian game, and ProtoRPG, a web-based RPG using the Prototype and Script.aculo.us.

Super Mario in 14kB Javascript. Very impressive little browser game that recreates some of the first Super Mario game.

If anyone is interested in discussing the Australian versions of QuickBooks then check out QuickBooksForum.com.au which was recently launched by Fontis.

You wanna know how to tell if you’re downloading a slow torrent? I now get excited when it tops 1.0 kbps. There’s only about 5MB left but I’m starting to think it would be quicker to swim to the single person seeding and ask them to just copy the file onto a disk for me. That or wait for continental drift to create Neo-pangaea so I can just walk.

I quite like the new styling of Spencer Street Station, I think the renovations were long overdue and the whole station is much easier to navigate. What baffles me is the name change. “Southern Cross Station”? I’m pretty sure having the street name is far less confusing for everyone and allows us all a little more alliteration in our lives. Still, what’s more puzzling that original change is the fact that they can’t seem to ditch the original name! See, it turns out that all the signs read “Southern Cross formerly Spencer Street”. So what was the point of the name change?

I predict that within 10 years time it will be renamed “The Station”, only to realise that’s idiotic and change back to “Spencer Street”.

I just bought a new keyboard/mouse combo today to act as inputs for my laptop when I’m at work. I went with the Microsoft Wired Desktop 500 set and it’s pretty nice. There is one, glaring, problem though: the keyboard has a PS/2 connector. Pretty useless on a laptop that doesn’t have a PS/2 port!

Why Microsoft would even make non-USB keyboards anymore? I guess I should have gone for the more expensive wireless set. At least the mouse is usable.