http://www.johng.co.uk John Griffin is just another media junkie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:56:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shawn Elliot sums it up nicely.I was literally screaming at my iPod listening to this week's 1up Yours podcast. I think I spent half an hour venting to my brother about it and Metal Gear yesterday. I should have recorded it because I am struggling to write it up here.Suffice ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/06/16/mgs4-reactions-and-opinions/ I have been shopping around recently for a network attached storage device to see if I can come up with a better solution than my current linux server. One of the main features I am interested in is automatic volume expansion. Basically if I insert a new hard drive the ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/06/03/shopping-for-nas/ It's a huge undertaking but the Windows UI Taskforce are trying to detail every single UI bug in Vista. Just looking through the list serves as a reminder to how half arsed and rushed out the OS was.The fact that there are still Windows 3.1 style widgets in Windows Vista ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/06/02/windows-ui-taskforce/ The time was right for a new venture so here it is, my new collaboration with Andy Griffiths is a site dedicated to Steam news and information that we like to call Steam Report. Steam is where the most exciting things in PC gaming are happening right now. It's where I ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/05/16/announcing-steamreportcom/ I have been running this blog for several years now and it was starting to show. In short upgrade after upgrade to wordpress had built up a ton of bloat making it fairly unusable for me and eventually led to the RSS feeds braking. To this end I have spent ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/05/07/blog-do-over/ As much as I hate Sky, I hate ITV even more. And today is no exception with the announcement that ITV HD will be a Freesat exclusive. So rather than rolling out their channel to the largest established HD platform in the UK (Sky HD) they choose to go with ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/05/07/itvs-rampant-stupidity-continues/ Here is my progess so far. Been hitting it hard :-)ShareThis http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/04/30/gta-4-stats/ I have been saving this rant since last week due to the blog issues. I still think it's relevant.When I read this blog post by the BBC's Darren Waters last week I started to get very angry. Now that I've had some time to think about it I can make ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/04/15/iplayer-on-wii-makes-mockery-of-ps3-and-360-says-bbc/ Warning! This review of Mario Kart Wii might be considered pretentious, overwritten, unreadable and harmful to your health.Bad Journalism! As written by Edge Magazine.It's Mario Kart people, not Bioshock.[via Andy via IM]ShareThis http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/04/15/bad-journalism-alert/ Since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 this site seems ok from where you are looking but is rather messed up behind the scenes. It has been widely documented on the Wordpress forums that there is an issue with TinyMCE and the WYSIWYG interface. I have the issue and like many ... http://www.johng.co.uk/2008/04/14/blog-issues/