tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:25:59 +0000http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com (Jephso)Blogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-472561117279839198Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:25:00 +00002008-07-01T22:01:10.032ZI recently watched a really great documentary called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I heard about the film through a podcast I listen to, and the hosts agreed that it was one of the best films made last year so I decided to check it out. Set within the world of competitive gaming, the documentary follows two players of Donkey Kong, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. Mitchell is http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/07/king-of-kong-fistful-of-quarters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-4877087400142888650Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:17:00 +00002008-06-29T11:23:37.246ZMy friend told me about this site where you can send emails to your future self, which is a pretty cool idea. I just sent two emails - one to myself in a year, and one to myself in five years. I just hope I still have the same email address by then. As well as sending emails to yourself you can also read anonymous emails that people have sent. There's some really interesting ones.http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/futuremeorg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-8177241792564858259Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:32:00 +00002008-06-27T19:36:45.744ZI must apologise for the lack of updates over the past two weeks. The reason for this is that my PC broke, and I've only just got it working again. There was a problem with the power button which meant I couldn't turn the PC on at all, and while it only needed a new wire, getting it fixed became more complicated than that. First I contacted Ebuyer whom I bought the case from just under a year http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/i-return.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-3574894369518143776Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:46:00 +00002008-06-12T08:48:00.091ZMy phone broke a good few weeks ago now, and I only just got it back yesterday. It's been really annoying not having a phone to use, but even worse was trying to get it fixed. First, we tried contacting Dial-a-Phone, the company that we bought it from, and they said they'd send a pre-paid envelope thing in the post for us to send the phone back to them. But after waiting for a while, nothing http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/phone-troubles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-6124497433114403355Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:31:00 +00002008-06-10T21:40:50.550ZWow. Exams are over! It still hasn't sunk in yet and I'm finding it hard to comprehend having free time without feeling like I should be working. It's such a nice feeling after a really hard year. My last exam was yesterday and it was on Japanese language. I found it quite tough, and don't think I did too well really, but I should have passed, which means I can still go to Japan in Septemberhttp://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/wow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-2745375018470008570Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:22:00 +00002008-06-07T20:35:20.150ZI've been wanting a GameCube for a while now, and as I'll soon have loads of spare time for playing games, I bought one yesterday. Me and my brother had a 'Cube back when they were current-gen, and I think it's a great system, mainly because of some really great games. This one I bought was only £20, boxed, from CeX in town, which is quite good I think. I did buy one yesterday, but when I got http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/gamecube.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-1248696774556460779Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:47:00 +00002008-06-03T22:58:03.694ZRevision is really starting to do my head in now. I've only been revising for like a week, but when you just sit in the house and read through endless sheets of paper all day it starts to get to you. Saying that, my first exam is this Friday, and then my second and last is on the Monday, so I should be all done in a week's time. After that I just have a few things to sort out at my student http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/06/revision.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-270816049662988430Sat, 31 May 2008 09:07:00 +00002008-05-31T15:23:31.162ZI read this article about CGI in the Guardian the other day, and thought it was good. I'm so tired of CGI in films - it really can spoil a movie for me. Take Star Wars for instance - I think CGI was one of the big reasons that the prequels felt more lifeless and generally not as good as the originals. In the article, a guy called Rob Burman makes a couple of interesting points. First, real http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/return-of-old-style-props-in-movie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-7969982367152180781Tue, 27 May 2008 08:38:00 +00002008-05-27T21:07:02.542ZAndrew Sztein makes a lot of good points in his article The Top Ten Reasons Gaming Was Better in the Early ‘90s. I agree with just about everything he says, especially points #8, #3 and #1. Games just seem so complicated and serious these days, while back then it was all much simpler and felt more like fun. I've often had to explain to my younger brother why playing the NES and Mega Drive backhttp://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/top-ten-reasons-gaming-was-better-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-5343148565861545121Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:00 +00002008-05-25T15:59:19.114ZI came back to my parents' house yesterday after finishing uni on Friday. Central heating, food in the cupboards, a tidy living room and a working TV are just some of the things I've missed. The other house never felt like home, and it's really nice just to be back, sat in my bedroom, listening to music, with the smell of Sunday roast wafting up from downstairs. I've gotta start some serious http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/home-sweet-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-2750836500082409915Thu, 22 May 2008 21:13:00 +00002008-05-22T22:13:44.677ZLast night was pretty fun - me and my mate went to Manchester to see Big D and the Kids Table, Sonic Boom Six and Random Hand at the Manchester Academy. We caught the train from Sheffield at around 6pm and arrived in Manchester about an hour later. I didn't realise until I arrived, but I'd never actually been to Manchester before, which is kinda strange considering how big a city it is and how http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/one-night-in-manchester.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-2371824886146274431Wed, 21 May 2008 14:15:00 +00002008-05-21T14:20:14.829ZThings are looking up. My Japanese listening test is done, my website for Web Journalism has been submitted and I just handed in my last essay of the year. And I'm going to see Big D and the Kids Table tonight in Manchester. And the weather's pretty nice too today. Still got two exams in a couple of weeks, but I'm not thinking about them for the moment.http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/feelin-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-5109751732988098618Sun, 18 May 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-05-18T21:46:47.453ZJust finished a 10 hour stint at the library working on my website for Web Journalism. Life is pretty sucky right now. My last week at uni starts tomorrow, then I have exams to revise for. But everything should be over in under a month. I think the best part of this week was going to see HORSE the band at Corporation. They're really fun live, and I got to speak with the synth player, Eric http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/libraries-and-horses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-1891349112037094537Mon, 12 May 2008 20:51:00 +00002008-05-12T21:06:27.779ZSo my new phone broke a couple of weeks ago now. Some of the buttons stopped working and then it turned itself off. It's been really hard to do anything about it, especially as it was my dad that bought it and not me. But in the end I took it to The Carphone Warehouse at Meadowhall yesterday, as they can send it off to Nokia for a repair under warranty, and it'll take 8-9 days they said. It'shttp://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/phone-and-camera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-3350876531187708060Wed, 07 May 2008 21:06:00 +00002008-05-07T21:18:46.334ZMy band, Spheres of Chaos got mentions in two Sheffield music magazines this month. The first is in COMA Magazine. They reviewed our new EP, Stratospheria, and as I don't have a scanner handy, I'll type up what they said: "Bit annoyed that once again the only way to find out what's on this disc is to access the bands website. I refuse to do so and have no idea what these tracks are called, http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/reviews.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-3589149273265561531Mon, 05 May 2008 13:55:00 +00002008-05-05T14:18:17.429ZI went to watch Sheffield Wednesday's last game of the season yesterday against Norwich City. We had to win to be sure of avoiding relegation, and we did, 4-1! That meant we actually ended up finishing 16th in the table, 6 places above the relegation zone. It was quite an exciting match, but the main thing was that we stayed up, although I hope we're finishing towards the other end of the http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/sport.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-2541377992293048929Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:00 +00002008-05-04T21:24:15.188ZAfter sending off my Pokémon Gold cart to Nintendo to get a new battery it came back in the post today. I had to wait more than the three weeks it was meant to take, but I got one of those plastic game cases with it, which is cool. And it's not like I have time to play games at the moment anyway. But only three more weeks and a couple of exams now, and then it's the summer holidays!http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/05/pokmon-gold-came-in-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-7218286831241863519Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:20:00 +00002008-04-27T11:31:25.266ZLife is tough at the moment. This second year at uni has been a killer. I can't wait to get to Japan, where uni is much more laid-back apparently. I spent all day yesterday writing an essay on Minamata Disease, and I'll be doing the same today. And it's the same every weekend - non-stop work. The language side of things is OK, but I'm getting kinda sick of learning about Japanese history http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/depressing-blog-entry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-8705155718865337341Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:19:00 +00002008-04-23T21:42:53.818ZThe more observant of you may have noticed a few changes to the sidebar on the right recently. There's now a link to ジョーのブルーシート, which is a blog I've made for my Japanese language classes at uni. It's just a place to upload my weekly homeworks for others to read, and the teacher encourages everyone in our class to do it. If you don't read Japanese it's probably not that interesting, but if youhttp://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/housekeeping.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-772945774964750546Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:57:00 +00002008-04-21T19:18:36.175ZDuring a rare period of free time yesterday I managed to catch The Goonies, as it was showing on Five. And although of course I'd seen it before, I realised how much of a masterpiece in nearly every way this film is. And how badass is this song? We need more music like this. http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/goonies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-8482027831208062826Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:22:00 +00002008-04-19T11:38:11.670ZOne of my band's songs was recently used in a video on the Sheffield Wednesday website! I know it's kinda weird, but my dad works at the club and he gave our demo to the media team, who decided to use one of our tracks (Twilight To Midnight) in their Vote For Your Goal Of The Season video. It doesn't have our name or anything on there, but it's still cool to see our music set to football; I http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/spheres-of-chaos-first-music-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-813561899907286226Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:41:00 +00002008-04-13T19:44:08.758ZI've recently finished reading The Best of Isaac Asimov, which is a book containing a good cross-section of Asimov's work up until the time when it was published in 1973. I'd never read any of his stuff before, so I thought this would be a good place to start. I picked the book up in quite good condition from Amazon Marketplace for a penny, and it has a cool front cover, although I'm not sure http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/asimov.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-6652197665136832707Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-04-10T16:20:51.986ZI hope the trains aren't this busy when I go to Japan. See more funny videos at CollegeHumorhttp://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/crowded-japanese-train.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-7700857621113837097Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:37:00 +00002008-04-08T18:53:47.448ZIt was my second day back at uni today. Already I have to start writing an essay, which sucks. Also, I'm trying to get my application for Kobe University sorted at the moment. Fortunately, the deadline for that is the end of May, which is later than for all the rest of my classmates. It's the second Steel City derby of the season tonight between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. I http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/tuesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31090240.post-1756088903015012818Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:24:00 +00002008-04-06T11:29:10.021ZThere are two new films that I really wanna see. The first is Drillbit Taylor and the second is Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and the main reason is that they are both connected to my favourite TV series of all time: Freaks and Geeks. If you've never seen Freaks and Geeks, do yourself a serious favour and check it out. It's a really funny and engrossing high school comedy set in 80s America, and http://jephso.spheresofchaos.co.uk/2008/04/two-films-i-wanna-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jephso)