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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.

Rewarding Loyalty, Nintendo Style

So, Nintendo have finally given people with a way to convert their star points into wii points to spend on the virtual console. Great, free games! Only there's a catch: there's a limit on how many points can be converted by one person in a day. Not that that's going to be a problem for anyone, because they've also put an artificial limit on how many people can convert points over a certain (unspecified) time period, and they've already sold out.

I can't imagine any possible reason why they'd want to do this ...

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Ok, that's annoying

Picture the scene. I've been stuck in a complicated telephone system, for 5 minutes, and have finally navigated my way to the option that I want.

I am put in a queue, and my other line rings. That's the line that's only ever for work or urgent stuff, so I reluctantly hang up on the queue, and pick up the work phone.

"Marks and Spencers and John Lewis have their Christmas decorations up", an automated voice says. I cannot repeat my side of the conversation, for this is a family-friendly website, but suffice it to say that ...

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That Special Time Of The Year...

Yes, that's right. It's that time of the year again. We both know you've been counting down the past 334 days, pacing up and down impatiently. I can see you in my logs, sitting there hitting refresh.

For the 9th year in a row, it's Christmas time at radiac.net. See, it's true, some things really are too good to miss.

And what do I have in store for you this year? Well, although I won't have time to do a new advent calendar, I will be running some of the old ones from ...

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Google Books

Ok, I must have missed the memo about this one, but this is cool. O'Reilly, for example. Well, as long as you're only after the first few pages of each chapter, otherwise you're back to googling for dodgy russian sites. But it's a start.

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