I made this post in the Monkey830.co.uk forums yesterday, but have decided it belongs here. After reading many All Your Base sites, watching videos and looking at images, I went and downloaded an emulator last week.
It's not anywhere near as bad as I predicted (sure, it has the opening dialogue reproduced below) - it's basically one of those games where you work from right to left in a spaceship (or "zig" as it's called) shooting evil Natol craft out of the sky. I'm stuck on the first level.

In AD 2101 war was beginning

(I'll leave out the names for simplicity - no guarantees are made for accuracy)
What happen!
Someone set up us the bomb
What!
We get signal
Main screen turn on
It's you!
How are you gentlemen
All your base are belong to us
You are on the way to destruction
What you say!
You have no chance to survive make your time
Ha ha ha ha
Take off every "zig"
You know what you doing
Move "zig"
For great justice

It has really cool music, too (wind band and organ arrangements may be coming soon...)

Today I have been an exceedingly boring person. I have done about an hour's maths revision, practised trombone for about an hour, eaten, tried to ring Finesse Photography (but received an answerphone after 20 RINGS!!! Who would be sad enough to wait that long for an answer? Don't answer that.) I worked out how to insert OLE objects in Publisher programatically, so I am a step closer to the WordArt 3.2 add-in. So a pretty boring day really. Maybe I'll do something interesting tomorrow. If I do, you'll be the first to know (unless someone else sees this page first)

I set up a new guestbook today as a displacement activity.
I'm curious to see what sort of people come here, and why. Please sign the guestbook so I can find out! :)

For anyone reading this from another country and wondering what on Earth I am on abour, I shall explain.
At 16 (or 15 in my case) - at the end of Year 11 of compulsory education - all pupils have to sit exams called GCSEs (for General Certificate in Secondary Education). Mine start in about a month, and I need to be studying hard. But I'm not studying as hard as I should be.
To be honest, I hate revision. It sucks. It is incredibly boring, and I never feel any information being absorbed. Plus, there's always something better I could be doing, such as:
- Writing an entry in my blog (like I'm doing now, probably as a displacement activity)
- Setting up my blog (like I was doing most of yesterday)
- Practising my trombone (which I was doing yesterday and need to do every day)
- Exercising (which I seriously need to do)
- Working on the yearbook (which is going out later this year - see Monkey830's site (http://www.monkey830.co.uk) for some stuff on that)
- Sleeping/eating (which I always need to do)
- Answering questions on microsoft.public.publisher (like I was just doing)
- Looking for something else to do to avoid revision (like I'm probably going to do now)

W00T! I now have GreyMatter up and working, so you can have updates from me far more regularly, and if you are that sad, you can gain an insight into my life.
Enjoy!