Sarah's Final Fantasy

Well, I'm bored. Its nearly midnight, but rather than go to bed (bed? ha!) I might as well do this. Thing is, I just don't talk about sarah in this blog anymore. A fact that she has mentioned to me (many times) and I have acknowledged. So, in order to rectify it, here's one about her.Well, actually she gets the start; the rest will be dealt with after. So, without further adieu:

10 Things You're About To Wish I'd Never Told You About Sarah
OR
10 More Things Sarah Will Use In Court As Evidence of my Caddishness

1. Sarah currently owns at least 4 items of clothing that are mine. She steadfastly refuses to return them.
2. Sarah's late 2004/early 2005 dying of the hair was indirectly my fault. I told her I liked black hair. Oops
3. Sarah was the second person to ever beat me on Soul Calibur II purely through button-mashing tactics. The first was some wanker I played with 3 months before the game was released who thought Guarding was an attack. Arse...
4. Sarah was the first person I ever cooked for, and once she got out of hospital was kind enough to tell me what I shouldn't have done.
5. Sarah managed to completely out geek me when she bought and ran her own D+D game.
6. Sarah is also a selfconfessed Star Trek TNG fan. By which I mean I had to spend 40 minutes in her room waiting for the episode she was watching to finish before she even said hello to me.
7. Sarah is of course a strict vegetarian. I'm sure we all remember the furore at BBQ1. I managed to convince her for 5 minutes that there was nothing to eat at my brothers party, telling her mum was rubbing the lettuce in bacon fat. Sarah's reply of "What? Why would she do that?" caused a lot of giggling, and an addition of a label to the table stating "Lettuce: Rubbed in fat".
8. Sarah stated in this post of hers that I was late turning up. She punished me by taking me shopping. I never learnt.
9. Sarah tonight discovered in her drawers (careful) an old valentines card she never sent me. Had to be from about the time we first met, she didn't spell my name right.
10. Sarah claims to know everything there is to know about me. Unfortunately I can't say the same. Much as I love me, I never take much of an interest.

Hopefully this should be enough to be getting on with. She really should just get on with her own blog but there we go.

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Many of you many know or be aware that I am a total Final Fantasy freak. I've owned/played all the games I can, I've got most of the soundtracks, I can even say I saw The Spirits Within on its first day of release and have a fansub of Advent Children. And if you didn't know that then now you do. Looking over my old blogs it was customary to do some random reviews of new things (my Gothika review (April 2nd) still rings true today), so I'm going to bore EVERYONE by saying a few words about all the FF's! AREN'T YOU LUCKY?!! (stop crying at the back there)

Final Fantasy

Ah, the first and original! 1987, the golden summer, with Squaresoft on the very brink of bankruptcy! Hironobu Sakaguchi pumped out this NES classic and history was made! Ok, so it was a D'n'D rip, the graphics became dated pretty quickly and it was harder than a cast-iron skinhead, but it was a start, and more importantly it sold! Pity that Amano-san's wonderful character artwork became pretty clunky in the change to sprites, but with an 8-bit console whaddyagonnado?

Pros
The first, and gameply/storywise is still pretty farkin' decent.
It's all there, EXP, HP, GP and Uematsu-san's Ahead on our Way, still a breathtaking theme
The Sprite Comic 8-Bit Theatre

Cons
The NES version looks dog and has some serious annoyances. Like your characters trying to attack thin air...
OTHER sprite comics.
As nails. Level grinding was just not fun.

Final Fantasy II

Ah yes, the inevitable sequel. Problem was, this game has one SERIOUS flaw, which marred an otherwise decent title. It's stat system was shite. Essentially, to make a stat better, you use it more. So, want to get stronger? Swing that sword baby! Want to be more accurate? Use that bow! Want to not get the shit kicked out of you? Get the shit kicked out of you anyway, what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger right? OK, I suppose it sounds logical on paper, but in practise... urgh. When I relented and gave the game a chance I spent at least 2 soli hours killing my own team just so they'd have enough HP to live! That said, the game is ok, the story is VERY dark (i believe a contributing factor in its lack of US release) with suporting characters getting killed left right and centre (some pretty nastily at that). Just seriously hampered by that LVL system

Pros
Your characters talk?! Wow, I thought Light Warriors had their voiceboxes altered at birth...
Better graphics (NES didnt change MUCH, but the sprites looked prettier)
Chocobos!!! ^_^ (fanboy drooling)

Cons
ARG THAT FUCKING LEVEL UP SYSTEM WAS SHIT!!! ARRRRRRRG!!!
Still turn based, and still with those swings at midair!

Final Fantasy III

Ah, our last outing on the NES. This one was cool though. Not released outside of Japan (though it is due for a release on the DS, another reason for me to get one hehe) it was however far better than it's predecessors. Story was solid, and we got our first taste at a basic Job system. Essentially, your characters could change what they were good at. Don't wasnt him to be a knight? Make him a mage. Your party got no healer? He can be a white mage then. Ok it had some flaws, but it worked. And yes, I have played it. Not legally, but then noone this side of Russia has either. We're fanboys, we can do what we like!

Pros
Job system! Fwee!
Again, better graphics, and a character sprite count through the roof.
Those nice men at Squaresoft have another good story for you!

Cons
Still not out here. I want it dammit!
Back to the static 4 member party. Bit more character variety would have been nice.
Still NES. Urgh...

Final Fantasy IV

Ah finally they hit 16bit with the SNES! Well, in theory... the graphics are still a little less than groundbreaking, colours a little faded... and the main character is called Cecil?! Cecil the dark knight... oooooh SCARY!!! Ahem anyway, yeh so again, the story was good, all sorts of political upheaval and warfare overcome by friendship and love. Once again we're on a tale of 4 elemental crystals, but no matter. And we finally get our ATB system! Ah battles were never the same again! This one was again released in the US, and thankfully so, as it led to possibly the most INFAMOUS moment of engrish ever. Imagine the scene, an old man has witnessed the death of his daughter, and her ineffectual bard of a fiance did nothing to save her.In his rage, this old man, one of the most powerful spellcasters in the land, launches himself into a fight with said bard. In his rage, he shouts a breathtakingly harsh insult: "YOU SPOONY BARD!!!" And, no. I didn't make that up.

Pros
Huzzah! 16 bit!
ATB!
Spoony!
Edge, coolest ninja until FFVI

Cons
I thought it was 16 bit...
Cecil... snigger!

Final Fantasy V
16 bit is getting there! Again, this one suffers from a small few problems regarding character names (Bartz? Ugh) Still, this was THE game of 1993. Superb story, badly acted in places, with that AWESOME job system now fixed and the most versatile system before or so far since, and above all... Faris... mmm.... even if her real name IS Salsa... snigger... and you got Gilgamesh, the best comic relief character, cos not only was he dangerous, his battle theme was awesome. Better than Ultros anyday.

Pros
Faris...
Job system! A knight that can summon! Oh yes oh yes!
ATB!!!

Cons
Still pixels. Dated nowadays
Bartz just left Boko in front of that cave!!! Heartless!

Final Fantasy VI
Ok, it's good Squaresoft adressed the whole 'only 4 characters' thing, but 14?!!! No way can anyone keep track of them. This one i found rather dull. Ok everyone else considers it a masterpeice, but i just couldnt follow it at all. too many characters too little time. But, they did finally have a female main character, who was cool at that. And they surpassed Edge's title of coolest FF ninja by including Shadow. Who rocked. And thy finally had a REALLY cool antagonist in Kefka, who loked like a clown laughed like a dog, but was shit scary cos he tore up the entire planet with worrying ease. And continued to do so.

Pros
Kefka
Shadow ( not a fanboy)
Dancing Mad, the final fight theme. Was woefully underappreciated, its a 12 minute long epic of musical genius. With organs! omfg!

Cons
Too long for my liking
Too many sidequests/character stories. Hard tokeep up.
DEPRESSING. Has everything from the end of the world to teen pregnancy to suicide to opera. Not a feel good game.

Final Fantasy VII
And here is where it all starts. For me my very first, the fourth released in the US (so it messed up the numbering considerably when they didn't call it FFIV) and the first released in old Blighty. I picked it up at the age of 11, and I last played it at 17. This game just was videogame story telling perfection. Ok the graphics are dated now, but the combat is fast, the story just the right side of depression, the characters brilliant, the women impossibly endowed, and like Kefka, we have the MOST AWESOME BAD GUY EVER!!! So awesome was the Sephy that when he appeared 10 years later in Advent Children there was a mass FF fanbase collective orgasm. And I was there with them. This dude was sex with a sword. Gothic, psychotic, sliced up one of your team before your eyes, and then you got to kill the bastard! Perfection.

Pros
Awesome story
AWESOME antagonist
Nice girls

Cons
Little dated now
NOt much to do once you'd done it all 4 times.

Final Fantasy VIII
I have to admit that this was where my love for the raven haired look came from (see sarah fact 2). I mean come on, she is a sexy peice of polygon. Anyway, again sexy graphics (still prerendered ugh), pity about the lack of cool badguy. I mean, you dont even know she exists until the 3rd disc ( a long time). And the main character was an emo forerunner with commitment issues with anothe silly name. Squall. Ugh.

Pros
Graphics make these people FINALLY look human!
Less swords and sorcery, more swords and large eff off tanks
None too hard
Junctioning was pretty fun

Cons
Squall. EMO
Ashley has serious orgasms over this game. And he thinks it's better than VII. Twat.

Final Fantasy IX

Once again, thanks to the miracle of hi-res FMV we get to ogle another peice of polygonic perfection. With long hair, and without. (I prefer the latter). This one was pretty fun, even though many unfairly dismissed it from departing from the trend of scifi settings. The fantasy realm was pretty nice, harking back to the 'good ol' days' with the spoony comments and the pixels. We also had another cool villain, even if he was 'slightly' effeminate. By which i mean VERY. But again, that didn't prevent the man from tearing 1 planet in half (literally, i add) and pretty much completely nuking another before he died.

Pros
Graphics Superb
Some good subplots/minigames. SKipping!

Cons
Brahne. Urgh....
A little... psychadelic in places...

Final Fantasy X
Nearly there! Again, very hot and sexy if reserved eye candy abound. As you can tell the graphics are now sorted. Stellar story as well, though the voices were a little embarrassing, which took away from the usual poignancy of the story. Ah well, no shame. The effects were cool, the bad guy was enough of an arse to warrant the smashing of his face, the main character was an annoying fop, the music was splendid, the combat was sweet ( CBT! WHEE!!!) and the Aeons were AWESOME. And then they went and made a sequel... oh dear...

Pros
Best FF since VII
Awesome in so many ways
Lulu's physic defying dress

Cons
Voice acting.

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And i end there, cos the films, meh, and FFX-2 is a travesty that will hopefullly never be repeated. So roll on FFXII i say!

Wow, this post is pretty long...
'chard

Playing: Final Fantasy V
Reading: 84, Charing Cross Road
Listening to: 'Dancing Mad' - Black Mages
Annoyed with: My neck
Mood: Serene
Song currently stuck in head: 'forget about tomorrow'- Feeder
Favourite Song of the Minute: 'Dancing Mad' - The Black Mages

Jon enjoyed Freshers Week before it was cool!

Odd...

I just shaved my legs... huh...

UCAS, UFOOL!

Today's been an odd one really. Woke up at 1145, and lay in bed for about 42 seconds, only to have to answer the phon to my moirther who was checking that I was indeed out of bed (oops). After a hasty get up and go I came down here and decided to try and be useful while waiting for the gasman who didnt come yesterday cos i was asleep when he called (also oops). So, in my vague attempts at being useful I decided to go onto UCAS and continue sorting out this whole 'uni' thing that people seem to be so into these days. Call it a bandwagon if you like (haven't had one of those for a while). Not doing too bad to be honest, I'm almost at the same stage this time as I was when i abandoned the sceme last time. So all I got to do is do my courses bit, adapt me Personal Statement and get a reference from some poor spointnet. I did all that last sentence touch typed! And that! and THis!! Wow, im really getting the hang of this. Though it does go downhill the moment my confidence goes. Much like my driving. Ok that was a rather unessecary tangent.

Anyway, while I was doing that jazzy qualifications bit (and was able to, with some serious smuggery, put down a C for Maths) I realised that I couldn't actuially remember what the hell I'd actually got for the rest of my GCSE's, so thanking my lucky stars, I sifted through the ol' blog to the relevant page. And was quite a memory refresher! I'd forgotten that at one point I actually used to do german...

But anyway, I took the opportunity to go through some old blogposts, and oh my god the differences were immense:

1. I couldn't write to save shit
2. I was SICKENINGLY arrogant
3. I was SICKENINGLY happy
4. God my puns are bad!

To be fair, I'm sure when I look at this in years to come I'll think exactly the same (except no3 will be "I was SICKENINGLY emo...") so to my future self: You stink! hehehehhe

Hm, this post isn't so long. Rambling time!

What's been going on with me then? Most of my tuesday/thursday evenings have been spent locked in the green room of Theatre 62 rehearsing what is possibly the most GOD AWFUL script i have ever seen i my LIFE. I mean, it's a play that actually has no idea what it wants or what its trying to do or even what words are. It's essentially and loosely meant to be a panto right? It has about 2 things in it that makes it a panto, cross-dressing and 'dames'. Oh no wait that's the same thing. Ok, 1 thing. It has no jokes (most of the ones you might find even slightly amusing were added by the cast/crew, no kidding), it has a shit plot (Cinderella goes on a pointless journey with no ending) and SINGING OH GOD IT HAS SINGING!!!

But my real nark with it it actually slightly more technical than simple off-slaggery. Theatre productions need one thing and one thing only; an audience. Cos if they ain't paying, the actors aren't doing their job. Problem is, this play has NO idea what it's audience is, should be or can be.

• Theatre 62's members are over the age of 30

Simple point but shockingly true. In fact the average age of the punters is above the national life expectancy. So, why on earth does this stupid theatre company insist on putting on shows so obviously for kids that won't show up? Even thier grandkids wont come unless their below the age of 8, becuase they have NO interest in theatre after that (even before, when they can't really object)

• This play is NOT for kids

Glossing over the above point with impunity, I have to say this play is disgusting. The first page has the fairy godmother in her underwear! NOt to mention constant SERIOUS (not even lightly disguised) sexual references. It's just not for kids!

• Audiences are fickle

By which I mean they enjoy decent plays...

Anyway, so yeh. Luckily these week is the week of the performances for A Doll's House (i'm not going, they didn't want me in the cast then they won't want me in the audience...) so as a quincyquonsce there are no rehearsals. Though Eve has been evil and demanded that when we reconvene we're scripts-down (means we have to know the whole thing). Ah well.

What else in the news of the 'chard? Today I recieved a nice shiny papery chequebook! I'm in there man! Now i just need ot make sure I never ever use it. I don't trust myself .Unfortunately i'm still waiting for the accompanying card, so i still can't actually buy anything. Need it before Dan sods off!

Ah, (Sic) by slipknot. I'd forgotten how good this song is...

Also, I have spent most of yesterday and today in cleaning up the house. Well, mostly yesterday, today I just did my laundry. Checking the window every three seconds to make sure my clothes havent blown away or that its raining thus stoipping the much needed drying process. Also, with the boiler not working we have no hot water. I haven't had a shower in 4 days!!! And it won't even be fixed until tomorrow! ARG!!!

Muse soon muse soon muse soon...

Better go really. Lunch is a cooking, and I'm deterrmined to at least get THAT right. Hope you're all having fun at uni/whatnots. Missing you all terribly! Especially helen, who is missed to the point of depression

(oh i'm on Facebook now, so you know, bust some mad props or whatever)

Auf Wiedersehen!
'chard

Playing: Final Fantasy V
Reading: 84, Charing Cross Road
Listening to: 'High' - Feeder
Annoyed with: Lots of things
Mood: Really wanna get violently drunk
Song currently stuck in head: Erm. To Zanarkand
Favourite Song of the Minute: 'Eisbrecher' - Eisbrecher

Recruitment

My Chemical Romance - Brixton Academy, November 12th
Paramore - Mean Fiddler, October 15th
Evanescence - Hammersmith Apollo, November 20th

Would anyone be interested in going? Really wanna go but not on my own cos then I seem sad (noone make any jokes about it being sad to want to see MCR anyway).

Lettuce me knoweths

Thieferrey!

I'm going to justify my horrendous theft of Kirsten/Hane/Toby/whoever else's wondrous work thus: Thanks to the argumentative powers of young Miss Oxenham, I am not allowed to publish my candid video of her making a complete arse of herself on EyeToy. As such, and considering that I haven't blogged for some time, I shall just fill with this.

1.One book that changed your life?
I can't really say. I've never had a book that ever completely shook the earth beneath my feet on its own, though I suppose in the grand scheme of things it would have to be Jill Murphy's Worst Witch series, which was responsible not only for my current bookish nature but also for my acceptance of literature designed purely for girls. It's a guilty pleasure.

2. One book you have read more than once?
Pretty much every book I've ever read I've consequently re-read, either because I enjoyed it that much and just wanted to do so again, or because I've forgotten half of it, or simply because there is so much more you can understand and gain the second time around. One example: How many people in 1997 read that Hagrid had borrowed Sirius Black's bike and actually made something of it? Cha-ching Ms Rowling.

3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Hm, depends. If it was a desert island of the sort where there's a 5 star hotel nearby, with a pool and many young, naive, yet eager to learn women around, then Lord of the Rings, simply for the enjoyment. If it was the desert island where I was completely alone (and without rum) then Pride and Prejudice, because (and I'm sorry for this) it's the only book I've read where all I wanted to do with it was use its pages to slit my wrists/build a bonfire with. I'm gonna get so many nasty letters for that...

4. One book that made you laugh?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time. As a rule I generally dont actually laugh with books. Not sure why that is.

5. One book that made you cry?
I don't think a book has ever done that (except when someone threw one at my head) but I've certainly been shocked or otherwise emotionally affected. See the end of the 3rd Princess Diaries or the Red Wedding in A Song of Ice and Fire for examples.

6. One book you wish had been written?
Dances with Dragons/ A Time for Wolves. OK, they're being written yeh, but not fast enough! Get on with it Martin!!!

7. One book you wish had never had been written?
Gonna piss everyone off here and say the Bible. Though I would like to clarify that answer by saying that it's not that I wish it hadn't been written, more I wish it had been written more clearly and less confuzzzling. For instance, in the prologue, couldnt someone have put:

"Yo, dudes, just to let you know; that whole commandment thing about not killing people? Yeh, that should also mean 'Thou shalt not kill, even (or especially if) I or JC or any other diety or omnipotent force say you should. Cos, you know, it's written right there in plain Aramaic/Greek/Latin/KJV (whatever that is) 'Thou shalt NOT kill. Full stop. End of. In fact, can I just add in the 11th commandment? 'Verily, those that say I'm talking to them without me actually saying so (with burning bush and/or other miracle accompaniments) are very very delusional and should be taken into the proper care that they deserve. Cos, as forgiving a God as I am, those guys are just whacked in the head. Oh and this book is dedicated to Mary. Stand up girl, sorry I had to take off like that. Call me?'

It's amazing how many people get that wrong you know...

8. One book you are currently reading?
J.R.R Tolkien's one and only.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?
The Da Vinci Code. Not because I want to challenge the demons in the Vatican (and frankly, anyone who thinks it does should be taken into care, as per the 11th Commandment.) but becuase most people agree that it's a darn good read. Except Lewis, but, you know, 11th commandment and all that. :-P

10. One book which disappointed you?
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. And not even becuase I was examined on it. more because it went : "WHAP AWESOME FIRST CHAPTER!! OMFG LIKE WHATS GONA HAPPEN EXCITEMENT EXCITEMENT possible weird bloke, but thats a subplot right... no...no thats actually the story... ok...this guy is nuts...this guy is annoying...that girl needs the 11th on her...this book is shit..."

11. One book which exceeded your expectations?
Spring Awakening by Wedekind. Ok it's a play, but damn, just read it! And keep it under the bed with trhe dirty mags.

And now, for you amusement, I'm going to change the word 'book' to 'song'. TWISTAGE LOL!¬

1.One song that changed your life?
End of All Hope by Nightwish. Otherwise I could still have been on the film OSTs. Swiftly followed up by Duality by Slipknot.

2. One song you have heard more than once?
My most listened to song according to Last.fm is Duality, but thats not true, cos WMP lists The Siren by Nightwish as being listened to 357 times.

3. One album you would want on a desert island?
Only one?! Urgh... It's a toss up between Slipknot's Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses and My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

4. One song that made you laugh?
Any Tenacious D song when sung with Matt and Rob. And they're touring soon! Whee!!!

5. One song that made you cry?
Quite a few, but most recently was 'I Never Told You What I Do For A Living' by MCR.

6. One song you wish had been written?
One that transcended all genres and was both mainstream and underground enough to please EVERYONE. Can you imagine the sales?

7. One song you wish had never had been written?
The double edged sword that is The Carpenter by Nightwish. 'tis true that If it hadnt been they'd never have got anywhere in the music world, but goddamn is it shit...

8. One song you are currently listening (to)?
Working my way through all my Within Temptation (legally procured). Currently on Gatekeeper, which was coincidentally my first WT song. So there you go.

9. One album you have been meaning to listen to?
Atreyu's Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses or A Death-grip on Yesterday. Cos they aren't too bad.

10. One song which disappointed you?
The Killers latest...'effort'. It's nowhere near the genius of the material on Hot Fuss

11. One song which exceeded your expectations?
Screw song, My Chemical Romance as a whole. Guilty as i am of slagging them off from the bandwagon, they are actually very VERY good. And anyone who says otherwise without actually hearing them needs the 11th.

Now, that video of Oxenham being a prat. I made a deal with her (well, not really, but screw her). If i get 15 comments to this post then you get her. I'm so evil :D

'chard

zOMG

SARAH IS A CHEAT!!!!

Dear Sony Ericsson...

Dear Mr S. Ericsson,

My name is Richard Stewart, and I would like to thank you for the K750i currently sitting on my lap, gazing up at me with its radiant backlit screen (currently arousing me with the recently taken photo of Dialga). However, I must write to you to express my true disgust at a recent even regarding this most stupendous device.

Until recently it has been a welcome and favourite feature of mine to connect said sexy device to the PC upon which this corresponce is being typed using the supplied DCU-60 USB cable, and with the almost magical ease having been able to transfer (electronically, mind you) data from the PC to said maturbatory aid, and back again from "the pleasurer" to the PC. What a world it opened to me! The ability to not only use my own collection of music as a means of a siren song (allowing the phone, along with it's beautifully seductive vibrations to get my attention and make me press its buttons and hol it to my face) but also as a means of an, albeit small, portable music player! The ability to spend hours gazing at its carcinogenic screen as I happily snapped photo after photo, using them for whatever means.

But alas, this perfect match was no sooner at it's peak of interactive pleasure when cruelly twas snatched from me. The phone, with whom I had spent so many hours using, was jealous of my interaction with another. Indeed, though it shames me to say this in such a formal letter, i had indeed been spending all my time with another temptress, another who shared my passions, another who could hold my interest and love in a bigger way, in a way that my phone was sorely lacking. as you may have guessed, the DCU-60 was lying useless and I, the fool I was, was playing with the wrong end of the attachment.

I wish i could say to you Sony (I can call you Sony can't I?) that I felt nothing for the PC. I wish i could say that the long hours into the night were wasted, torrid affairs, but they weren't. I enjoyted every second, the 20x larger glow from the screen lighting my very soul, the picture contrast infinitely clearer. i was trapped in my own sorry affair, and I was neglecting your protegé, your daughter, if you will. Credit was no longer being bought for her, she remained unused and unsatisfied. I made the occasional visit, sure, and indeed others attempted to give her words to speak to me that I may see her worth once more. But I was blind, blind and foolish.

Like a fool, i convinced myself that perhaps K750i was to blame. That perhaps she had driven me away onto the keyboard of another. i thought she knew nothing of what was happening, but i had underestimated her. The PC was after all connected to her by their mutual DCU-60 connection, and it was only a matter of time before she found out. Maybe she always knew. in any case, they cut their previous relationship together apart, and suddenly damage was widespread. Like the very hiroshima of gadgetry, and EMP was fired in our friendships, and suddenly all were at war. PC became irratible and moody, blaming me for the loss of her friend. K750i hated me rightly so. DCU-60, bless her, was at least supportive, but eventuially tired of her peacekeeping attitute.

I did the only true thing. I went back to K750i, to attempt to patch things up. I showered he with affirmations of my renewed faith, did everything for her that i should have, made her feel like a new phone. However, despite wining me back, she refuses to have anytihng to do with her old friendships, and the old gang is in turmoil. i must ask you, therefore Mr. ericsson, to give me advice on this specific situation:

Whenever I manage to get all three together, PC refuses to acknowledge K750i, though it is gratifying to see DCU-60 at least pointing out that K750i is there. However, PC treats her as an unknown, saying her 'drive' to connect with her again is no longer there. I try and show her these drives again, erasing memory of them previously (bad as they were) but she tells me that these ones are no better than the ones she had previously, despite saying also that there ARE none there.

You, Mr. Ericsson are far closer to DCU-60 and k750i, and i implore you to help me reconnect all three, for their own gain and mine.

Sincerely, and with hope,
Richard Stewart.

And for your viewing pleasure...

R.I.P. Mr Irwin!

With the tragic death of Steve Irwin finally sinking in, his family have now begun the preparations for their final goodbyes at his funeral. Already scheduled to play at this sombre event is Sting, who will be playing specially re-recorded versions of his hits, "Fortress Around Your Heart" and "Be Still My Beating Heart".

R.I.P. Cobber!