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So far this year has been a very disappointing one gaming-wise, especially on the PC. In looking over my blogs I can't think of a single noteworthy PC gaming title throughout the whole year, and on the consoles there hasn't been much to talk about either.

In order to reverse the trend and get some good gaming under my belt before the end of the year and COD:MW2, i'm getting a few older titles to fill the gap. First up, Michael eventually convinced me to buy Left 4 Dead for a half-price weekend on Steam. I haven't played it previously … Read more →

The big news of the past week is the arrival of my brother's baby daughter. It's the first child from my side of the family (despite Despina having three nephews on her side), so that means my parents are now grandparents! A big public congrats to my brother and his wife.

There was no Futsal on Friday night, so we went and saw the baby at the hospital. Saturday I wasn't feeling fantastic and spent most of the day lazing around trying to rest. Felt a bit better on Sunday to go and play our indoor game, which was probably … Read more →

We won our mixed futsal game last night, and a few of us on our team have at least a few bruises to show for it. The other team was very rough, and it's doubly frustrating in that the one of the referees there doesn't seem to be consistently applying the rules. Anyway, we won the game comfortably 7-1, and could have scored a lot more. Des, who was the only girl playing on our team (and thus had to play the entire game), played awesomely.

As we played in the early game that night, afterward we went to the … Read more →

The big news of today was the government announcing it's intention to split up Telstra into retail and wholesale companies, basically whether Telstra likes it or not.

Although i've been fiercely critical of this government in terms of IT, mainly in relation to their planned idiotic internet-filtering policy, i've got to say that it's a welcome refreshment to see them show some cahunas and do something positively right, and i've got no problem in showing it.

Splitting Telstra up is something that should have been done more than a decade ago before they starting privatising it, and a result … Read more →

Trudging along through life at the moment, it's the veritable roller-coaster.

I'll start off by saying that i'm p'oed at stupid One (TV channel) showing Nascar over the baseball on Saturday mornings now. I'd just gotten used to waking up and seeing a live ball game on Saturday mornings, just for them to now show three hours of cars literally going around in a circle. Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see the spectacle in that. F1 I can get into, but Nascar? And it looks like from next week they're prioritising the NFL over basbeball too. Ah … Read more →

I really haven't been that much of a fan of the new free-to-air sports channel, One, until these past few weeks. I wasn't really interested in anything other than the poker shows before then.

However recently they've started showing live baseball from the States and I'm loving it. I have no idea why I like watching professional baseball so much, some might say it is the American equivalent of Cricket (which I generally despise watching). I guess I like the plays, the banter, the way a single inning can turn a game, and generally the length isn't anywhere near as … Read more →

I've had one of the most busiest, but also one of the most enjoyable weekends I've had in a long long time. Most of the weekend was taken up by catching up with a friend from the USA which I met at UQ six years ago, who very awesomely made a side trip up to Brisbane to visit us whilst she was in the country on business.

It was just the reality suspension I needed after a tough week and-a-bit. The visit was also well-timed with a winter heat-wave. We're in the middle month of winter here in the southern … Read more →

I can't remember how we actually got onto the topic, but last night me and Des were discussing our favourite of the old-time cartoon characters (think original Warner Brothers and Disney characters).

Here are mine:
Out of the Warner Bros. characters, my favourite is definitely Marvin the Martian. A close runner up to him from the WB characters is Daffy Duck, with an honourable mention going to Wile E. Coyote. By the looks of those choices, it seems i'm attracted to 'losers' of the WB bunch :S.

Out of the Disney characters, my favourites are Goofy and … Read more →

Entering the month of August usually sees the English Premier League start up again. Whilst we're still a week and a half away from that, I have myself been playing a lot of football.

We've continued playing in the mixed futsal on Friday night (last Friday the females did awesomely well as we won 8-1), and of course I am still playing indoor on Sunday.

Recently on the PS3, the highly anticipated downloadable game Fat Princess has been released. The concept behind this game is great: it's basically an RTS in which two teams have to try to rescue their … Read more →

Just under a year ago I wrote this blog entry about my rage at LucasArts for not releasing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on the PC, whilst releasing it on every other current and past platform known to mankind. In that article I said this:

Don't be surprised if in 12 months down the track, after they've made all their initial release and hype money off the console versions, they will release a PC version of the game to try to squeeze what they can out of the PC market at that time.

Turns out I was 100% correct. … Read more →