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Just finished playing Mass Effect 2. All that follows hereafter is peppered with spoilers for ME1 & ME2.
[Spoiler Warning - Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2]

I see cut price everything for sale these days – and some of them are frankly amazing – buy a space shuttle! Buy a missile silo! Buy all the cold war surplus modules that you need to build your own bond supervillains lair. Not that you’d want to, frankly the HR issues those Bond villains [...]

At my last high-level strategy meeting with Savage, one of the agenda items was podcasting. I am an enormous fan of podcasts, I listen to a great many of them. I used to listen to the radio a lot when I was an undergrad, and podcasts are like the radio, but where you get to [...]

While attempting to set up an Irish bank account, I remembered another crucial piece of official documentation I needed but had completely forgotten about: the PPS (Personal Public Service) number. This is akin to the American Social Security number, and like a SSN, you need one in order to do most things having to do [...]

One of the problems with being married to someone who is skilled at the crafting arts is when they do “Craft” a gift for you, you know deep down that nothing you could buy in return is ever really gonna be able to match up. You really gotta fight fire with fire. Alas, a handcrafted [...]