I am pleased to announce a "point release" of my Irish translation of Rayman 2. This fixes a few more cases of dubious wording, but may have a few display issues.

According to the calendar, it's been five years today since Portal 2 was released. Since two of those years were leap years, it's seemingly been on the order of exactly 521 weeks. Well, let's see… Yep, it's been a hell of a five years!

Of course I remember being a …

UPDATE: Version 1.1.1 has been released. Please download that version instead.

I'm pleased to announce that I am releasing a new version of my Irish translation of Rayman 2. Having played through the game again recently I realized that such an update was overdue. You can download it …

Well, there have been occasional minor updates on the status of the VIGoV Subatomic Particle simulator since it was exhibited in January 2014, but no real progress, despite optimistic sentiments voiced in the first half of that year. Since then, I have gone on to do first-year physics in university …

UPDATE: Version 1.1.1 has been released. Please download that version instead.

Well, I've finally got some good old-fashioned game modding to report here. I have finished my translation of Rayman 2 from French into Irish, done with the help of the tool sna_nochar, created by MixerX and distributed …

Well, it's been a long time! Since my last post, I've discovered that there should have been a fifth "D'oh!" in there – turns out that the way the PCIe slots are arranged on my motherboard means that it's impossible to pass through one graphics card without the other. That probably …

The following post gets quite technical, and employs a bit of jargon. You can read the whole anecdote if you want, or just scroll down to the bottom if you want some advice related to Linux Mint Debian Edition, XEN and VGA Passthrough.

I recently built myself a new computer …

Well, I posted back in September to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the initial airing of Animaniacs season 1 episode 1, so I might as well also celebrate the anniversary of the 65th and last episode of that season!

Because of a "newly discovered" cartoon of the Warners revealed late …

I can hardly believe it! This blog has now been in existence for an entire year! This is also the third anniversary of the release of Portal 2 (at least in this time zone), another fact which some of you may find scarcely credible.

What a year it's been. Proof …

I was just browsing through the archives of this blog and saw a post mentioning Aperture Ireland. I realised I'd never actually checked whether or not Valve had gone about porting Portal 2 to GNU/Linux. I fired up Steam and it seems that this port recently entered beta.

Had …