On the weekend we went to the wedding of Michael and Shelley. It was a really great wedding, it was lots of fun and of course i'm very happy for them.

However, probably the most weirdest thing out of all the weddings i've been to happened after the ceremony on Saturday.

As they were in the Church courtyard taking photos with family and such, three guys dressed up in Power Rangers costumes showed up for an apparent photo-op, and below was the hilarious results.

Hilarious! I added the 'WTF?' myself, mainly in the hope that it might become one of … Read more →

A while back I bought the complete set of the X-Files (excluding the most recent movie). Seven months later, and after getting my wife hooked on it, we have finally finished watching the complete X-Files series including the recent movie which we acquired on Blu-ray.

It was great watching the show from start to finish. At the end of the show you could see why it was cancelled, and I think that it was probably appropriate that it was. After watching last year's movie recently on Blu-ray, I have mixed feelings of it. Although it was good, i felt as … Read more →

After the previous entry, I have cheered up a bit. Much of that has to do with me getting two games which has proved a very welcome distraction from unnecessary thinking and worrying.

Firstly, one game that I have been very looking forward to over the past week was released: House of the Dead: Overkill. Many people have been waiting a long time for some adult-targeted games to come out on the Wii in the midst of all the crap games that have been released for the console.

As an aside: my status update on Facebook that read … Read more →

The past seven days have been generally a very testing one for myself personally. Again to be mysterious (and retaining at least some privacy), I can't mention much of the details here, but overall it's mainly down to some big disappointments.

Although at times it has felt a little overwhelming, after a bit of time I have managed to find a bit of perspective, and that has been made a lot easier to do by seeing all the terrible things many other people are having to cope with around the country in recent times. My disappointments and issues aren't worthy … Read more →

So another week goes by, and largely it was a frustrating and stressful one. This week turned out to be the last week for the IT Manager at work as he is moving up north. The transition to a new one was much smoother than the previous times, but it's still going to take some getting used too.

Thursday was my birthday, and other than working, there wasn't much else to it. I did get FIFA 09 on the PS3, which was a pretty awesome present. I haven't had any time to play it yet, but hopefully I will sometime … Read more →

With a bit of my spare time lately i've decided that i'm going to back on a few of the games that I never actually finished for on reason or another and actually finish them.

I've always been the type of gamer that finishes games; i don't like not completing them unless it is an almost impossible task (mainly due to the difficulty). I don't see the point of spending money on something and not seeing it through to the end (a related aside is that i've never walked out on a movie).

So i finally finished off a few … Read more →

We're having a very lazy Australia Day here, you've got to love national public holidays.

On Saturday night I ended going to see the Queensland Roar game, thanks to free tickets acquired through a friend of a friend's sister's boyfriend's room-mate... or something.

We were expecting a tame and dull game without many goals (their last game was a dour 0-0 draw), but the game ended up being really good with the Roar running out 4-2 winners. You can't complain seeing six goals in a football match.

On Sunday we played our indoor game in the sauna-like whether it was. … Read more →

There's been a few new things appearing around here lately. First off, i got a new keyboard for Trogdor (our desktop machine). The old one was really getting on my nerves: not being able to type fast because of a combination of my poor finger-movement skills and the fact that the keys weren't reliable if you didn't hit it 100% in the right place with the right amount of force in the right direction.

In keeping in the same style as the old one (which I actually like), I picked up the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, which keeps the laptop-styled … Read more →

Out of all the technology expos in the past few weeks (Macworld and CES), for me the biggest highlight news-worthy-wise was the announcement from Apple that songs purchased through iTunes will be completely DRM (Digital Rights Management) free.

iTunes has always been the single biggest implementation of DRM on the planet, and it is fantastic news. This really is big news, as iTunes has always been the bastion of of a reasonably good effort at DRM. Hopefully, and i think it will be, the beginning of the end of DRM for digital content.

I have always been … Read more →

Today marks five years since i started this blog, all the way back in January 2004. Those first few entries are very cringe-worthy in hindsight, but I soon got into the swing of things.

A lot has happened in the past five years: finishing Uni, getting married, various work-related stuff, games, holidays, and of course a lot of football.

However, as I complete half a decade of blogging and enter the sixth year of this blog, I must admit that I am rethinking the whole thing and actually quite seriously considering giving it up. There … Read more →