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I have conquered the postal service telepathic annoyance beams (at least for the time-being): today i finally received my Limited Collector's Edition of Unreal Tournament 3.

I've really gotten sick of waiting for stuff sent from Hong Kong to arrive, i guess it serves me right for saving so much money. The only other shipment i'm now waiting for is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and i don't really care how long that takes to arrive, i've got plenty of others to play through before it does.

After that arrives, i guess that's it for the game … Read more →

I really need a holiday, it's felt like so long since i've taken a decent one: probably our last really decent one was our honeymoon, and you can't really count that as too relaxing.

The main cause of this feeling of late has mainly been work (unsurprisingly). On Friday night i worked until almost midnight and we put in another 5 hours on Saturday. It wouldn't be that bad if we actually accomplished what we sought out to do, but it really was one frustration after another and we barely got anywhere with our big projects. So it means that … Read more →

Time for a whiney entry.

Work is going to suck over the next few weeks. It's mainly because we have a few really important projects coming up, which means that at least for the next few weeks we'll have to be in on weekends to implement them because we have to take most of the servers down.

And again i'm bummed out about waiting for a game. It absolutely sucks: it seems that the postal service has a telepathic annoyance beam which has direct access to my brain: they can tell in advance which parcels i'm really intent on receiving … Read more →

Well it's good being able to blog whenever i feel like now that NaBloPoMo is over.

It's been a pretty good few days around here. Yesterday we put up our Christmas tree, and I spent that afternoon finishing off Crysis.

My experience with Crysis was a bug-filled one. Although the game was mesmerising in terms of the graphics and enjoyable gameplay, there were many, many bugs in the game that almost ruined the experience for me. It being an EA published game doesn't help it's reputation (EA being notoriously known for releasing rushed and buggy games to cash in … Read more →

Day 30, final day of NaBloPoMo 2007

So this is the last entry for NaBloPoMo 2007. As i mentioned a few days ago, it's been a little underwhelming this year; i've gotten no real satisfaction out of it.

Like I did near the end of last year's NaBloPoMo, i thought it might be interesting to post the statistics of the effect NaBloPoMo has had on the amount of visitors coming to this website:

As with last year, it seems that NaBloPoMo has greatly increased the amount of visitors over previous months, but it seems that the response this year … Read more →

Day 29 of NaBloPoMo 2007

Okay, the title may be a little dramatic, but the deal that I got from JB Hi-Fi for pre-ordering Super Mario Galaxy is really good.

If you missed it, mainly prompted by the almost perfect reviews and tags thrown about which went along the lines of "best platformer ever made", last week i gave into temptation and pre-ordered the new Mario game for the Wii.

For an incentive to pre-order, JB Hi-Fi were offering a free strategy guide. It's not until i picked up the game today that i found out that the "strategy guide" … Read more →

Day 28 of NaBloPoMo 2007

At this point, i'm so over NaBloPoMo. This year I haven't really 'felt' NaBloPoMo; it's been more of a chore than an enjoyment. I think it's because that i've been so exponentially busier this year compared to last year, and that then I actually had some spare time to make the posts I did somewhat interesting, and maybe actually have some content.

At this stage, i don't think i'm going to participate in NaBloPoMo next year. Well..., unless I have a lot more spare time on my hands :D.… Read more →

Day 27 of NaBloPoMo 2007

Work has been absolutely terrible the past few days. Although there hasn't been any full-scale disasters, the amount of little things that are just piling up and taking the focus away from bigger and more important projects is almost bringing me to tears.

Anywho, i won't go on too much about that. I'm a few stages through Crysis, and i'm really enjoying it.

Well, there's nothing else much that comes to mind at the moment. That's about it...… Read more →

Day 26 of NaBloPoMo 2007

Today I received my copy of Crysis that i ordered from Hong Kong. I ordered the 'Special Edition' if the game, which in Australia is in a cool 'Steelbook' case, but sadly the Hong Kong version, despite having the same contents, didn't come similarly packaged :(. There's something about Steelbook cases that is so cool...

I've played through the first stage (again; the demo was the same stage), and for some reason a really enjoyed it more this time around. I think i'm overusing the cloaking suit function, but it's so cool being … Read more →

Day 25 of NaBloPoMo 2007

With all the fantastic video games coming out throughout this month, us married gamers face a tough choice on an almost daily/nightly basis: "Should I stop playing this game?"

Yes, it is a tough one but thankfully someone had the brains to make the choice a little easier for us. With great recommendation i present the following PDF: Should I stop playing this game? A decision matrix for married folks.

Hilarious and practical at the same time!

On the gaming front, today i finished Portal the fun puzzle solver included in The Orange Box… Read more →