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Was on step 9, happily patching the kernel, when my house had one of those split second power outages that normally does nowt worse than turning the telly off and making you need to reset the time on the microwave. A Fon router with a borked kernel is not a happy puppy.

Favorite game: DoW Favorite console: Dreamcast Nationality: British Accent: East Midlands, midduck Sex: Male Age: Too bloody old Height: 6' 2'' Status: Happily divorced. Religion: Apathetic Agnosticism Favorite bands: The Beautiful South, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, John Mellencamp, Barenaked Ladies Favorite book: Vampire$ - John Steakley Favorite author: Bill Bryson Favorite TV Shows: UK: Scrapheap Challenge, QI, HIGNFY. US: Mythbusters, Chuck, Reaper, MNIEarl, Supernatural. Other hobbies: Insomnia, pottering about

I've used Orbit Downloader to grab iPlayer's Flash vids. IIRC, the .FLV files play okay in VLC but can be a bit bothersome with other players. A quick run through something like MediaCoder or PocketDivXEncoder gives you a file that's quite portable.

Seconding Warfare Incorporated on Palm. Brilliant game. By far, my biggest time waster is Bike or Die! - a physics based bike sim (as the homepage states) with absolutely thousands of levels created for it. For emulation, I go with LJP. There's a hundred or so GBC roms on my SD card, which is a bit of an overkill because I find that I play Mario Tennis almost exclusively. Damn, I love that game. Another game I'm very fond of is Snails, which is a Worms clone done by PDAmill. Bad news: they dropped support for PalmOS last year. Good news: they've released all the old Palm games for free - linky. They still release stuff for Windows Mobile/PocketPC though. Pretty much have to mention Astraware in a discussion of mobile gaming. Yah, you won't get half as much geeky cred playing one of their games as you would running Quake but for casual gaming there's a lot of fun to be had. Westward, Tradewinds 2 and Zombie Attack being particular favourites of mine.