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Orlando Speaks · 6M ago

Bashed

I grew up in the East End of London, the original home of the Cray twins, Billy the Screwdriver, and Two Blades Harry. Before I transferred to the sophistication of the public (private) school system, I was deeply immersed in comprehensive school system. Despite schooling with the rich and now famou
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Orlando Speaks · 7M ago

Wasted food

I saw on the ABC yesterday that each household in Australia throws away twenty five carrier bags of food in a year in waste. We overstock and have to throw it away because it has gone off, or out of date, or we simply over pile their plates. It is recommended to keep a food [...]
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Orlando Speaks · 7M ago

Communal parenting

There is a programme on ABC at the moment called The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. I have not read the book, but I did see the first in the eight part tv series. I do not know the direction in which the rest of the series going, but the first episode has raised some interesting [...]
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Orlando Speaks · 8M ago

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II – review by Apollo

I’m not even sure if Topcat or anyone has left a review for this game, but here we go. Quick and easy… playing it on the hard level, which is pretty standard these days for gaming buffs to get real enjoyment out of thegame (or any game) it has a new power, the Mind Trick. [...]
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Orlando Speaks · 8M ago

Questions to Future Me – by Glass Heart

What do you want, then? At home, sitting on your throne. And complaining so heartedly of your clicks and pains and aches to the bone. The mal-fitting, ill-sitting skirt you used to own. And looking down, as the rolls abound I ask: Why not take the first step? “Because the magazines have told me I’m
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Orlando Speaks · 8M ago

Deus Ex Human Revolution review

I have been asked to write a review of Deus Ex – Human Revolution and I can not do this without commenting on the first Deus Ex back in 2000. The first Deus Ex features JC Denton and his part in a war that, at the time, I did not fully understand. However this game [...]
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Orlando Speaks · 12M ago

Flying the Flag

There has been a recent trend which was originally confined to the United States, but has now been adopted by other countries including Australia. All countries that have a canton on their flag display it in the top left hand corner of their flag. Countries such as the US and Australia traditionally
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Orlando Speaks · 1Y ago

Blackberry 0x80040fb3 error, fixed

Hey all, I had immense trouble migrating all my stuff from my old Treo 680 to my new Blackberry Bold, especially with syncing my contacts and calendar. Kept getting that annoying 0x80040fb3 error. Well, after literally spending hours surfing the web, I finally found a solution. Just thought I’d shar
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Orlando Speaks · 1Y ago

Blackberry Ring Length Settings

Are you having problems getting to the phone before it goes to voicemail? If you have a blackberry, here are the quick dial settings to change the ring length. I have used this myself and it works. Ring Length Settings: In order to extend a mobile devices ring length open the Phone application (Pres
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Orlando Speaks · 1Y ago

Religion, Reloading and Revoking of Rights

There have been two recent news stories that have had a major impact on the civil liberties of the world citizen. Both stories were reported in the week of 22.08.10 on RT news. Religion; The first story is that this week, French parliament passed a law that will ban muslims from wearing a Burqa or a
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