Waking up on the first morning of the new Millennium, two thoughts were running through my mind. The first was how unbelievably ill I felt after the party previous night and the second was a slight feeling of disappointment that the world hadn’t ended, since that meant I had to get myself out of the bed and go to work! Yes, believe it or not the office furniture London warehouse I was working at in 2000 had asked us to come in on January 1 to do a stock take before the sales started. Happy New Year!
It’s easy to laugh at Y2K now we all know that the whole millennium thing went off without a hitch. In fact, lots of TV shows and movies have done just that; and sometimes they’ve done it very well. There’s an episode of ’Family Guy'in particular that based an entire show about what life would be like in a post-Y2K Quahog. I won’t spoil the story, but it involves Stewie mutating into a weird sort of octopus, a quest to find the only food source that can survive an apocalypse – the Twinkie – and Peter setting up New Quahog, where everyone gets to pick their new job out of a hat!
I love Family Guy, and have even invested in some digital printing kit in order to print out some classic stills to decorate my study; seeing as my wife won’t allow them anywhere else in the house! The Y2K episode or “Da Boom” to give it its proper title is one of my favourites, but Family Guy is far from the only TV show to reference the millennium bug. ’My Name is Earl'also did a great Y2K flashback episode, where Earl, Randy and Joy all convinced themselves they were the only people to have survived the millennium and proceeded to go crazy in Camden’s store – only to wake on January 2nd in the bed department surrounded by customers and a very angry manager!
Would you believe there is even a film called “Y2K”? It made the whole millennium thing seem a lot more exciting than a few computers going haywire, and featured a military team heading deep into the jungle to disarm a nuclear weapon that the computer experts hadn’t been able to reach and was going to launch at the stroke of midnight. Obviously, with a title like “Y2K” I had to rent it when I saw it online, but sadly it turned out to be a bit of a non-event. Kind of like Y2K itself!
I can’t deny it, and nor do I want to. I love my gadgets — have done ever since I knew the world wasn’t really going to end — and the R4 Card is one of my most beloved. Now sit back, dear reader, and immerse yourself in my love of this extra special thing.
Primarily designed to work with your DS console, this little beauty is now available and fully-functional on a number of other gaming consoles: 3DS consoles and the Dsi to name but two (note: it really depends on which specific card you are buying, so always check website details to make sure your new card will work with your console!).
Now, you may ask How come the R4 has made such a statement in the world of gaming? It’s a fair enough question. After all, it isn’t as if Nintendo have a corner on the market when it comes to shifting devices which are capable of transporting us to a far galaxy or distant war-zone.
the card allows users to store tons of movies, music and even books. This means that not only is there more space for stuff you love, but while you are on the go you’ll be able to do virtually anything
All you need to know is this: it’s simple. Thanks to the card’s ability to store tons of extra files on your console, it’s a stand-out favourite. But that’s not the only reason, of course. Even better than that, the card allows users to store tons of movies, music and even books. This means that not only is there more space for stuff you love, but while you are on the go you’ll be able to do virtually anything you please. Suddenly, here’s a vast improvement over carrying that bulky laptop around: something that just isn’t conducive to modern living sometimes, and can also be a pain when all you really need is a small screen not a massive one.
Also good is that the card will hold and play various different file types. This means you’ll spend less time getting stressed and trying to work out how to open a file, and more time listening to your favourite songs or watching movies on the tube while the rest of the world makes do with staring at commuters.
There’s more, too: the card loves nothing more than giving you an entire library of games – all of which can be found on the internet in trusted places which won’t give you viruses.
As if all that wasn’t already good enough, there are also further possibilities if you wish to investigate them. These include variations on the standard R4 which can turn your DS into a proper full-on multi-media player! Not only that but you don’t have to worry about losing your files, as a separate copy will be made. This is great because it means no more stressing out about backing up your stuff.
In short, the R4 makes things which were once impossible, very possible. Not only that but it does so in an easy-to-use way – so no worries if you’re just an occasional gamer who is looking to dabble in something a bit more new-school.
I remember New Year’s Eve 1999. I spent it drinking too much beer with my two best friends in Exeter – where two of us were studying at University. To be honest we weren’t really thinking much about the Y2K bug. Our goal was more about trying to stand up straight outside Exeter cathedral at midnight and sing ‘Aud Lang Syne'without falling over. It wasn’t until the Bishop came out of the cathedral ten minutes to midnight and began reading More
It’s easy to joke about the whole millennium-bug thing. About how some people predicted it’d be the end of the world as we know it, and how others predicted – were adamant, in fact – that technology would be so screwed up by it that we’d all have to resort to pencils and papers and good-old-fashioned numeracy (I for one am glad that didn’t happen…very glad, in fact, as the very idea of it makes me feel quite sick…). But More
In many ways, I was disappointed when the world didn’t end: I’d been planning for it for ages and had everything together to leave planet earth. So, when I woke up in the new millennium and my body was still there, and the world hadn’t been ravaged by virus and disease – or just good old apocalyptic fire and mayhem – it was a terrifying thing.
Many believe this world could end at any second and life as we know it would cease to exist. These threats are not just from science fiction books or religious texts but they are events that could really happen. If the world ends there will be no need to take paternity tests because no one will be here. Here are five major disasters that can bring the world to an end:
1. Black Hole: Collapsed stars can turn into what More
The whole business of ‘survival'after a nuclear holocaust is not quite as simple or clear-cut as you’d think. After all, it isn’t just your physical self you must save; there are your mental faculties to consider as well…
For example, you may be able to pick up a fully equipped nuclear bunker for an absolute steal and this will provide you with instant safety from any impending atomic attack! But just how long do you think you could hold it More
OK, so the world didn’t end in 2000 (unless your name is Alan Sugar and your business was shifting dodgy looking / working Amstrad telephone-internet things), but it still could. No exaggeration there. Look around you, if you can be bothered to get out of your chair (or just go online and look about there: better than nothing). We’re ransacking this planet of every ounce of dignity. In fact, I have no doubt that if “dignity” was a commodity then More
1) I’d make sure I wasn’t hiding somewhere. Hiding somewhere and somehow flukily surviving the apocalypse would be just my luck. It’d be a nightmare: would you really want to be the last person on Earth? If you’ve seen I Am Legend then you will know the answer is most definitely NO.
2) I’d make sure I got rid of anything embarrassing I owned. I’d also wipe the history on my computer. I would not want the new race of More
