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Day: 17 January 2003

Game: Candy Cruncher

January 17, 2003
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[Candy Cruncher]Have you got a sweet tooth (check 😉 ) and a craving for strange sweets/candys? Well, the people over at Shockwave have made a little game called Candy Cruncher where you’ve just got to make straight lines composed of sweets/candys.

Just click on a candy to move it into the empty space and then shuffle the sweets around to make the lines (you can move multiple sweets at a time). Be ware of the rotten black jelly beans that can’t be moved…

Level 8 with a score of 1,431,860 was my final score (the level comprising mainly of me muttering to myself “What the h–ll am I doing? I should be moving that sweet!”

(Off topic: Why have the Americans insisted on calling sweets “candy”? My guess is they are just trying to slowly evolve a language of their own so they can stop calling it ‘English’ and then bring out a movie about how Americans invented the language and everyone else borrowed it *cough* U-571 first-plane-flight… *cough*)

Net: Two Web Log Awards Won!

January 17, 2003
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[Web Log Awards]Whilst it is still 4 days until the results of the 2003 Bloggies are announced, I have still managed to win two awards for my blog (with some thanks to BlatherBlog)!

Go me! The first one I won when I went over to the awards site was for the “Best Looking Weblogger“. No word of a lie! I haven’t, yet, posted a picture of myself on my blog so obviously I got the award because I’m just so damn good looking it’s known throughout the world 😉

The second (which I had to go through a bit of clicking through screens to actually claim) was for “World’s Best Weblog“! Yippee! Well, with around 310 intelligent, clever and probably damn-good looking daily visitors, what else could my blog be? In fact, in the past 4 days I’ve received praise such as “Your blog makes for interesting reading when I’m in need of a 5 minute break. To be honest it’s the best thing I’ve found lately for random links to new parts of the web &#58-&#41”, “pretty good site” and “interesting reading…Love the (telemarketing) counterscript stuff”.

Continue ReadingNet: Two Web Log Awards Won!

Books: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

January 17, 2003
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[Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix]This entry has been superseded by: Books: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix II: please reference that page instead

As you may have heard by now, it has been announced the book 5 of the Harry Potter series – “Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix” will be publicly available from the 21st of June (in the UK, Canada and the USA).

You can pre-order a copy now though – Amazon has the children’s edition AND the Adults edition available at half price – just £8.50 each. Obviously you’ve got to wait until June to actually get your copy, but over 60,000 copies already have been ordered it could be a case of demand outstripping supply: so order now!

What can I tell you about the book without falling foul of anything that I may or may not have signed? Well, on the first page of the 768 tome it starts : “The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four.”.

A later quote which has been widely circulated in the media goes: “Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. ‘It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.'” but all I’m going to say is that readers will find out the reason Lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents and something interesting about Harry’s mother Lily and the Dursleys.

There’s a new Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher (much to Snape’s disgust) and she’s a woman, but there’s also the return of Professor “Mad-Eye Moody” (the previous teacher) and Lupin. Oh, and there’s that little matter about the death of a major character – and I think I’d be spoiling the surprise it I stated who it was (but it’s not one of the 3 main characters NOR is it [deleted something that I wasn’t supposed to say])… Finally there’s a new song for the Sorting Hat and a bit more about the Mundungus.

What else can I say at the point? Not much, but maybe in the coming weeks…