Who would have thought that De La Soul could have got it so wrong? It seems that 3 is not the magic number at all. For me it is 60: the magic amount of Great British pennies which I am willing to spend when taking a punt on something new, throwing caution to the wind.

Luckily, there are two outlets for my oxymoronic thrifty abandon: XBox Live Indie Games (see Shoot 1-Up) and Apple’s App Store feature some super games at the bargain price point of 80MSP and 59p respectively. This week, my Star Bar fund was depleted by Rovio’s Angry Birds. [...]