House for sale!

Terraced House, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom, 2 Receptions, South Facing Garden

Is anyone looking for a 2 bed house in Southampton?!

See Tepilo for more information, photos, floor plans and to book a viewing.

Update: well, we didn’t get the house we wanted. Don’t try to buy a house before you sell your own is good advice, which we kind of knew already but it was just too good an opportunity to pass up. We aren’t that desperate to move though – no great desire to have a bigger mortgage before we need one! – so we’ve taken the house of the market for now. It’ll be back though, so I can send some details if you’re really interested. (5 December 2009)

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Wii for sale

After doing a fine job collecting dust, I’ve decided to sell my Wii. Despite being a lot of fun, computer games still don’t keep my attention. The only chance they have is with multi-player games (I still remember the days of Micro Machines on the playstation and Golden Eye on the N64!), but that’s more the people than the games.

The other thing that puts me off computer games is the entertainment industry’s weird obsession with draconian restrictions on their hardware and software. Despite technology’s potential for connecting the globe, I can’t buy games for my Wii in this country because it was a gift from the US. Entirely artificially, that makes it different region.

Before selling I wanted to reset everything but formatting reveals more restrictions:

“If you remove your Wii Shop Channel account, all of your currently registered Wii Points and downloaded software, data, and services will be deleted and software stored on an SD Card will become unusable.”

“If you plan to transfer ownership of this Wii console to someone else, you cannot transfer the Wii Points you have purchased or the software, data, or services you have downloaded, so you will need to remove your Wii Shop Channel account on this screen.”

So that’s nice, everything I did buy is gone for good, whether I’ve saved it to an SD card or not. I might have got another Wii in the future, or I might want to give the games away with the Wii, but tough luck. And then there are our Miis. I’ve saved them on to a controller which I’ll be keeping, but they too are linked to the console they were created on; I can move them, but won’t be able to edit them any more. Thanks Nintendo, you guys really know how to make a customer feel special.

Still, don’t let all that put you off buying a second hand Wii- I doubt the competition is any better!! So what’s a good price for an as new boxed up US Wii? £120? I’ll be putting it on the Hursley for sale forum shortly.

Update: looks like the DRM obsession can cause issues when upgrading to a Wii U as well. Nice work Nintendo. (21 November 2012)