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Here I am reviewing an MP3 player. That doesn’t sound particularly special, but I never thought I’d buy an actual, dedicated audio player. Not because even tennis balls these days support audio playback, but because I don’t really care for music that much.

I do go through bouts of listening to music – loudly; typically vocal trance and that sort of thing. What’s changed is that I’ll be doing a lot of gym work at some point and I hate to chuck weights around without music blaring. Using this flimsy excuse, I decided to buy a new toy.

Let me just quickly mention something before I start. This review has the potential to be gigantic, so I’ve restrained myself somewhat. I’ve not really mentioned the company, the history of their players, and so on.

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The last few posts seem to be reviews. This one is going to be no different. I blame Twitter, personally.

Here we have the Veho VSS-002w Mimi Qube 2.4 GHz WiFi Speaker System Including Transmitting Dongle. That is seemingly the official name of it. Most of it, anyway. I’ll refer to it as the Mimi from here on out as I’m not clinically mental.

I’ve wanted a speaker in the bathroom so showering is a less tedious affair. Wiring a speaker into the bathroom would take a lot of time, effort, and money. Then I stumbled up on the Veho Mimi Qube. Yay me, guys!
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As a brief continuation of my EAP post, I got a mail out of the blue from Notion Ink offering me a chance to buy an Adam tablet (running the Android OS). So I went ahead and bought one. Obviously they didn’t actually have the one I wanted, so I ended-up getting the Pixel Qi+WiFi version, sans 3G.

This post contains my initial impressions on the device.

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I began shaving when I was 12 (and a half, fact fans) and started off with a BIC disposable. Saying it was crap was quite an understatement as each cut was like being open-hand slapped in the face by a drunk Freddy Krueger.

I worked my way through the 10-pack quick enough and I was glad they were gone. My memory gets a bit hazy at this point, but I ended-up with a Gillette double-edged razor, also known as a safety razor due to being marginally less deadly than a straight-edge. It had a butterfly opening top, and it was a cheapo in that the handle was plastic and a bit pants. I still cut myself quite a bit. Well, at least it wasn’t nearly as bad as the disposable shite.

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Update: Added three photos of the stand with the Notion Ink Adam.

A stand for a Notion Ink Adam? If you’ve read my previous post on being in the Early Access Program for the Notion Ink Adam and then bailing, you may be wondering why I’ve got a stand for the Adam. Well, my tablet will be arriving around the 1st of March or so, and I’ll post about that later.

This is a very quick sort-of review of the above stand, mainly for any Adam owners that are looking to buy something to keep their tablet at an angle. This post will be updated when I get the tablet, and in the meantime will contain thoughts and pictures of the stand itself.

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This would probably be better suited to a review, but I haven’t taken any photos or anything like that. So a blog post it shall remain.

My nVidia XFX 9800GT has been annoying me with its fan for the past year. I don’t play games often, but when I do, it likes to remind me by doing something even more annoying than just merely being loud. The card, like most cooling systems, has a threshold where the speed of the fan will be increased when the detected temperature gets to a certain (higher) value.

That’s generally a good thing, but not here. While running a game (not often, but it happens), the temperature of the graphics card drunkenly tries to stay on that threshold line. Being drunk, of course, it veers to the left and it veers to the right. This results in the fan going on high for a few seconds before plunging back to medium for a few more seconds. Then the cycle repeats, depending on how much graphics action is occurring on-screen.

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I’ve wanted to write this post for over a week now but the lack of blog prevented me. Now that things are back to normal, I can finally get on with it. Please note that I will not disclose any real details as a goodwill gesture to Notion Ink, despite the shambolic way in which I think they’ve handled their product and customers.

For those that don’t know, Stormwind was attacked by DanTup‘s mother, who used her cataclysmal bingo wings to destroy parts of the Alliance city. Wait, I don’t think that’s what happened. Maybe it was horde, maybe it was that fruity Deathwing fella, but whatever happened has made parts of Stormwind look like a weekend at Grimsby’s Ribey Square, but with far less ropey tarts looking to love you long time.

Click read more for… more. Yes, really.

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Right, okay, so, er. Yeah.

You know when I said in the previous post that I’ll be posting information on the Cataclysm beta? Well, guess what? I sort of can’t be arsed. There are other sites out there offering the latest information on it, so why should I bother? I know I said it’s to give insights into the overlooked features, but I’m such an apathetic shit.

I even did a video on the sunshafts graphical effect, but I put so little effort into it that I’m not sure if I want my name attached to it. Unfortunately, I uploaded it. See my embarrassment here. Groan.

There are a few screenshots after the read more thingy…

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Due to some serious sucking up by one of the officers in our guild to Blizzard, it appears we’re in the Cataclysm beta! How did we celebrate? By spending two days doing nothing but downloading and patching the Cataclysm client. It was bad. Really bad.

But, enough of that. What’s the beta like so far? Crash-y. With a large dose of disconnect-y. Not forgetting World Server is Down-y. Even more annoying than that is the lack of addons. Addons are completely disabled in the beta, and it’s making the whole experience a gigantic chore. I’m one of those that cannot stand the built-in interface; I despise it, and feel as though it worsens the experience by a large margin.

I’ll be posting information and screenshots on the beta over the upcoming days and weeks, typically things that other sites aren’t showing you. Any excuse to get this site updating again, right?