Jubilee Xbox 360 Celebration Pack: Union Jack Skins

May 052012
 
 May 5, 2012  Posted by at 09:39 Machiavelli Id goes digital , , , , , ,  No Responses »
Jubilee Xbox 360 Celebration Pack: Union Jack Skins

Just seen that the leaked news last month about a special edition Union Jack Xbox 360 package has been confirmed by Microsoft. It’s the same white hardware and extra stuff as you get in the older Xbox 360 Family Pack: a white 4GB Xbox 360 S console a white Kinect sensor 2 white wireless controllers Kinect Adventures Kinect Sports 3 months’ Xbox Live Gold membership The only extra to what they’re calling the “Celebration Pack” is that it comes with free Union Jack skins for all the hardware, so that you can make it look like this: That means you [...]

Join Us for Battlefield 3 Realism: 28/29 April, Xbox Live

Apr 242012
 
 April 24, 2012  Posted by at 13:00 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The 4nim4l , , , , ,  No Responses »
Join Us for Battlefield 3 Realism: 28/29 April, Xbox Live

From Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th April 2012, I will be taking advantage of my trial month’s Rent A Server subscription to host a day of Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 with a bit of added realism: No mini-map No HUD Friendly fire allowed Why Switch Off the Mini-Map & HUD? Machiavelli has been going on about how the HUD (Heads Up Display) makes games like Battlefield 3 much less realistic and she says it just turns it into a game of follow the lights. And it would be interesting to see how the death count and kill:death ratio change [...]

Battlefield 3 News: Xbox 360 Update with Rent Your Own Server

Apr 052012
 
 April 5, 2012  Posted by at 09:48 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The 4nim4l , , , , ,  No Responses »
Battlefield 3 News: Xbox 360 Update with Rent Your Own Server

A big new update to Battlefield 3 for Xbox 360 has just been released. The news they’re making the most of is that you can rent a server to play on via Xbox. Yes, PS3 has been offering this for a while and it is out for Xbox 360 at last. This means you can rent your own server and create your custom Battlefield 3 gaming space. OK, you could already do this by privately renting a slot on a server if you knew how, but now it’ll just be easier for those of us who don’t know. What Can [...]

Depressed Scots Told to Talk to their Computer

Mar 162012
 
 March 16, 2012  Posted by at 10:39 All psychology is amateur, Machiavelli Id goes digital, The science of Machiavelli Id , , , , ,  No Responses »
Depressed Scots Told to Talk to their Computer

This is a guest post by Anthony on behalf of Janet Stones Counselling.  In a confrontational move, thousands of people suffering from anxiety and depression are being moved from the therapy couch and placed in front of their own keyboards. After facing cuts in the NHS budget and high levels of stress and depression in the population, Ministers in Scotland are considering different ways to reduce the amount of scheduled appointment times. In order to reduce NHS expenditure and waiting times, patients who visit their GP with moderate symptoms may be referred to a new website. The online service will [...]

And Here We Are: WordPress Guided Transfer

Mar 012012
 
 March 1, 2012  Posted by at 17:01 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The word of Machiavelli Id , , ,  2 Responses »

Well, that was painless. I got an email when Hew started moving stuff over, another when he was done, and Lo! it’s all here. My theme is still here, in its free-for-WP.org version, my sidebar and footer widgets are still basically the same, and they’ve added some plugins to replicate some of the features of WordPress.com that I was used to. Visitors probably don’t notice the minor differences on the site from yesterday to today. Slick! I’m sure I could have done it myself, but by the time I’d looked up how to do everything found and installed the right [...]

Here We Go: WordPress Guided Transfer

Feb 282012
 
 February 28, 2012  Posted by at 14:49 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The word of Machiavelli Id , , ,  2 Responses »

So it’s all been arranged – a “Happiness Engineer” called Hew at the WordPress.com guided transfer service is going to take all of this stuff and move it over to a WordPress.org installation hosted by HostGator. That’ll happen between 02:00 UTC Wednesday and 02:00 UTC Thursday this week. [That's the wee small hours in the UK, evening in the US, and lunchtime in Australia.] When I wake up in the morning, I’ll have to wait up to a day before I can see the new site. So it may look weird at first, but I’ll get things all how I like them [...]

Being Lazy: WordPress.com Guided Transfer to WordPress.org

Feb 252012
 
 February 25, 2012  Posted by at 21:27 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The word of Machiavelli Id , , , ,  No Responses »
Being Lazy: WordPress.com Guided Transfer to WordPress.org

I just bought a “Guided Transfer” service from WordPress.com to move all the stuff on this site to, essentially, another site that looks roughly the same and has the same web address but is delivered to your screen from a web host that I pay, rather than from WordPress.com. If that meant nothing to you and your eyes have glazed over, feel free to wander off. There are some naked girlie photos here, or a few recipes. Anyway, what it means is that if you come back in a couple of weeks’ time, this blog may look slightly different. No [...]

Kinect for Windows is here!

Feb 022012
 
 February 2, 2012  Posted by at 21:15 Machiavelli Id goes digital , , , ,  No Responses »

Not that we have it yet, you understand. It only came out on the 1st of February, and in America, but I’m looking forward to the day I can edit blogs and sort out spreadsheets just by talking and waving my hands in the air. Check out the basic info on the Microsoft  Kinect for Windows website, if you’re curious.

How My Boobies Got Involved in Canadian Politics

Jan 202012
 
 January 20, 2012  Posted by at 01:25 Machiavelli Id goes digital, The Picture of Machiavelli Id , , ,  No Responses »
How My Boobies Got Involved in Canadian Politics

Like I said the other day, I had this organic search traffic spike.  Lots of people looking for Mike Crawley showed up, the majority of them from Google image search. About 20 hours later, I saw the news that Mike Crawley has been named as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada…. What this essentially means is that a whole lot of people were doing a quick spot of internet research on Mike Crawley, maybe looking for a picture of him to include with their blog post or news story, when they crashed into a couple of my [...]

WTF Happened There?

Jan 162012
 
 January 16, 2012  Posted by at 00:26 Inside Machiavelli Id, Machiavelli Id goes digital , , , ,  No Responses »
WTF Happened There?

I just had one of those mad traffic spikes: not a StumbleUpon flashmob, not a run of Facebook click-throughs, but a burst of activity that comes mainly from organic search. Look: As it turns out, I had a lot of hits from people searching for Mike Crawley. Which isn’t surprising, because he’s a superstar and because he does nudie photos. There were a couple of hours there when it was all just busy, busy, busy – for this place, at least. I’m used to pootling along at no more than a hundred or so views a day most of the time, so this [...]

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