I just found this picture on my PC from the days when my ex-wife didn’t want to kill me. She took this photo and sent it in to one of her women’s mags for a look-a-like contest. I didn’t win sadly, the Posh Spice won the round just because she put some glasses on.
Bloody rubbish eh?
What do you think? Should I have won?
I don’t normally feature video game news on MrDaz.com but this one had to get a mention. I’m a HUGE Ghostbusters fan. I mean seriously huge. I bought a Laserdisc player and a DVD player just to have Ghostbusters on those formats. I own several copies of the film on various formats and can recite the whole script from beginning to end.
I am an Odeon Ghostbuster, and have the badge to prove it.
So, when I found the following press release I had to share it. Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis will be scripting the new Ghostbusters game, how cool is that?
Sierra Entertainment Calls On The Ghostbusters To Save The World Again
Ghostbusters The Video Game to Bring Back Original Film Cast to Deliver Next Chapter to Blockbuster Films
Reading, uk (16th November, 2007) – Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, announced today development of Ghostbusters™ The Video Game, based on the classic films that have transcended and entertained generations of audiences. To deliver a special gaming experience to the tremendous Ghostbusters’ fan base around the world, the game will feature the original film cast from the classic Ghostbusters films, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, back again for the first time in more than 20 years. Supporting the ghost busting crew are the talents of Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, players will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of supernatural villains in a funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague.
Ghostbusters The Video Game, is expected to ship fall 2008.
“Sierra Entertainment is extremely excited to not only deliver fans, old and new, this next chapter in the Ghostbusters universe, but to allow them inside the universe for the first time,” said Martin Tremblay, president, Worldwide Studios for Sierra Entertainment. “Our collaboration alongside Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studios also includes working closely with the team at Sony Pictures Consumer Products. Together we will create the ultimate Ghostbusters experience, full of the characters, ghosts and other paranormal creatures so many have come to adore over the years.”
“Ghostbusters is one of Sony Picture’s most valued film franchises,” said Mark Caplan, vice president, Hardlines for Sony Pictures Consumer Products. “In setting out to develop a game, our criterion was to find a game company who was interested in keeping true to the Ghostbusters world that talent and filmmakers had originally created. The team at Sierra Entertainment took the time to prove to us they had what it takes. From the moment we green-lit the game, we have certainly seen a lot of passion and commitment coming from Sierra Entertainment and both development teams. Fans are going to be impressed with the game’s ability to deliver a very authentic Ghostbusters experience, as well as its capacity to blow out the Ghostbusters universe to new heights.”
Like the films before it, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis will return to scribe the script and event-driven storyline for the video game that will lead the player through the trials and tribulations of the world’s leading paranormal ghost busting team. Ghostbusters The Video Game will create a totally unique experience and gameplay environment that authentically recreates the whimsical time period of the film, expanding the lore and supernatural events that seemingly plague New York City.
About the Game
When Manhattan is once again overrun by ghosts and other supernatural creatures, players will take on the role of a new recruit joining the famous Ghostbusters team. Developed by acclaimed studio Terminal Reality, Ghostbusters The Video Game will make its debut on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC and Red Fly Studios will develop the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ versions of this seminal entertainment brand.
About the Film
Ghostbusters, released in 1984, is one of Columbia Pictures’ highest grossing films, spawning a hit sequel in 1989 and three successful animated television shows. Ghostbusters and its sequel grossed over $580 million worldwide. Ghostbusters merchandise has exceeded $1 billion in retail sales. The original film, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as ghost hunters for hire, cleaning up Manhattan’s buildings of slime-spewing spooks.
As a follow up to a previous review where you can rent parking spaces around the UK; have a look at this part of the same website where you can find garages for rent around the London area.
Now I’ve always been interested in this aspect of making money as often buying property to let can be out of some people’s range. Buying garages to let however is a little more within the price range of more of us. Unless of course you happen to live in areas such as London! I saw a garage in little old Bristol sell recently for over £70,000. What’s become of the world? Surely there are cheaper ways to park your car?
As it seems there aren’t, and in London where space isn’t so much at a premium as it’s gone altogether finding a garage for your prized Bentley Continental GT can be a tricky affair. Luckily with this website you can track down London garages via their search facility for as little as £100 per month. Many of the garages are just a short walk from the local tube station.
This seems an excellent idea for those of you looking to keep your motors protected in the London area, and an even better idea for those of us (and I include myself in that) considering making money from parking space and garage letting.
As you may know I’ve been paying £68.50 per month for Broadband with BT, which is outrageous. I emailed them about it again on November 1st with the following:
I see I’ve just been debited another £68.50 for my broadband service. This has to be the most expensive broadband available on the market today. Much more than the service was originally sold to me at.
I’d suggest you reduce this monthly payment to what it should be or I’ll cancel my contract and go with Vodafone.
18 days later and they still haven’t bothered to reply. Furthermore I received a letter from BT billing to my OLD address in Wales saying I was £25.06 in credit.
I can’t frickin’ believe this. These idiots know I have moved. They fitted my bastard phone line! I’ve had enough, so emailed them about that today:
Account Number: GB*******
Bill Reference: GB*******I have already told you of my change of address, you have sent me correspondance there, yet for some reason you sent this bill to my old address saying I was £25.06 in credit! I am not surprised by this basic error on your part. I have tried for the last few months to get my direct debit for broadband down from £68 to what it should be, £33, yet you can’t seem able to do that either.
My address is NOT
190 ****
It is, as you well know:
17 ****
Recredit my account with the £25.06 and reduce my direct debit or I will leave BT. I cannot tolerate this incompetance any further.
Please call me if you like on ******
Regards
A soon to be ex BT customer
Mr Jamieson
Again I doubt they’ll reply. I also forwarded my previous email back to the broadband department for them to answer as they’ve ignored it since November 1st. I have incidentally been chasing the reduction of this bill for months, as you can probably imagine.
Well, the direct debit is due on December 1st. If I don’t get confirmation of its reduction before then I will cancel it. I’m not tolerating incompetence like this any more.
I’ve had a speeding ticket!
Can you believe that, a frickin’ speeding ticket??? This was done the day I took my friend down for his mother’s funeral from Leeds to Hereford, and we were going some on the way if you remember the blog. However this was on the way back, and I was only doing 57mph!!!
What a disgrace.
Apparently there were temporary road works as I was clocked at the spectacular speed of 57mph at 25 to midnight on a Thursday night. Bastards.
What makes it worse is, as you can see from the photos, the letter was tampered with. My ex-wife has defied a court order and removed my property from my house again, even after being warned by the judge for doing it before, AND opened the letter. She’s taken the letter from my house, opened it (because it looked juicy no doubt) resealed it and forwarded it to me in Manchester.
Now, I have my father go to the house for my post, but there hasn’t been much for him to get as she’s been stealing it for months. I’m supposed to reply to this speeding fine within 28 days, but my reply was sent as soon as I received this and still it will be late.
Bitch.
After 16 months of trying, and some considerable blame dodging from RSA, I have finally had a cheque from Royal & SunAlliance to compensate me for the items stolen from my car.
Why did this take 16 months? Who knows. Anyway, my car has today been picked up again and taken to BMW Hanforth, where hopefully they’ll be able to put right what once went wrong in a Sam Beckett sort of way.
Here’s a photo of me with the cheque. You can feel my sense of disbelief that this has all happened.
I noticed the following Adsense Ad on MrDaz.com today, though I can’t for the life of me work out what prompted Google to place this one here.
Naturally the advert intrigued me to check out the website illicitencounters.com. It seems to be a dating website for married men and women who fancy cheating on their partners with some uncomplicated extra-marital sex. What a concept!
Basically married people list themselves on the website much like any normal dating website, except rather than looking for life partners, relationships or any such crap, they just want sex. They’re bored with their marriage and want some excitement in their lives. This 26 year old girl from Manchester is one such bored housewife.
I do hope that her husband isn’t also listed on the site. Imagine the potential for comedy!
What I particularly like is the disclaimer at the bottom of each page:
Warning: not everyone is suited to having an affair. They are not an alternative to working on or ending a marriage. Not all affairs have a positive effect on a marriage, some can be very damaging. Always consider other people and if you are going to have an affair, please select your partner wisely.
That’s just genius. Not all affairs have a positive effect on a marriage? Who could have guessed that?
I think I might sign up. I’m not married but what the heck?!?
Having to communicate with recently with friends in different parts of Europe over the web I’ve had to rely on MSN and Skype. Skype tends to freeze the camera and has a very poor image quality whereas MSN Messenger is temperamental, crashes and often won’t connect.
Neither can really be relied upon for communicating with friends, let alone for business. A more reliable and professional solution would be a Video Conferencing application such as AccuConference. They offer video conferencing for as little as 15 cents per minute
If you’d like a demo of the service they can arrange one for you, plus they also recommend a selection of hardware peripherals you could use with their system.
The main advantage with video conferencing is that you can save time and money on travel times to and from your meeting, and of course never worry about forgetting to take any information or equipment with you. If your meeting is in Germany and you’re in San Francisco, that’s quite a saving of time and money!
For those of you out there, like myself, that always look at a site like this and think; how could that make me money? Well, they’ve also got an affiliate scheme with 3 separate methods of earning revenue. The best in my opinion being the first method which earns you 5% of your referred customer’s monthly spend.
