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I've been out of blogging action since Sunday mainly because my right wrist has been killing me over the past few days. I suspect that it's from playing waaay too much Donkey Kong Country on the Nintendo over the weekend as well as possibly falling on it at football on Sunday morning.

Anywho, I get ahead of myself. On Saturday night we went to Church, and afterwards a fairly large group (not as large as last week though) went to Nando's for dinner. Nando's was of course very nice.

Our game of indoor on Sunday was at the unfriendly time … Read more →

Every now and then on the internet someone comes up with an idea that is so absolutely fantastic, but so amazingly simple that you wonder why you didn't think of it first.

Although technically speaking flash games don't necessarily need to be confined to the internet to have success, this game has spread like wildfire over the internet, even to the point that the official site for it now seems to be, at the current moment, crumbling under the pressure.

What I am talking about is of course 'Line Rider' (official site: http://www.official-linerider.com/). The game is simple enough: draw … Read more →

At work today I had to use a pen to write something down, and at that moment I realised something: I hardly ever write any more.

Now I don't mean I hardly ever write action-adventure novels any more (lol), but rather in the past year and a bit it has been a rare occasion in which I have to pick up a pen or pencil and actually write something down on paper.

Since I have finished uni I don't have any more essays to write (I always wrote out essays first before typing them), I don't have any lecture notes … Read more →

After getting the game just before Christmas, yesterday I finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. According to my saved game timer, it took me just over 57 hours of continuous gameplay. Yep that's right, over two whole 24 hour days of my life gone playing this.

It's easily the longest game that I have ever played, making it well worth the amount paid for it, but also it was generally a fantastic game. The way that the Wii controllers allowed you to interact with the game was amazing, and the visual immersion of the game astounded me.… Read more →

I know that I was supposed to do this entry yesterday, but i kinda forgot.

Anywho, yesterday marked the beginning of the fourth year of this blog, and in a few days the website in general. It's hard to believe that three years ago I made the first ever entry in this thing and that i'm still doing it.

To mark the occasion I thought I might put up a few things that I started but never really put on this site.

A few will remember that there used to be a splash page that, using flash, allowed people to … Read more →

Honestly I feel like crap. From this morning I feel like i've developed a head cold or something: my nose has been running all day at work and i've got a really light head. Sort of reminds me of exactly two years ago.

Anywho, welcome to 2007! As we all get used to writing and typing a 7 instead of a 6, i've got to say that i'm looking forward to this year. Which is strange, because as far as I know, nothing too exciting is planned for us directly this year at least compared to last year.

But … Read more →

It's that time of year again kids! To the unitiated, this is the entry where I review my year and pick out the highlights of my own blog entries.

I said in last year's review that 2005 was a year of many 'lasts', and as predicted in my New Year's entry this year, 2006 has definitely been a year of many 'firsts'. Marriage and moving out are the big ones, but there are other highlights. Enjoy.

January

- New Years: The start of the year, most notable for my awesome New Year's resolution
- 300 Entries!: A notable … Read more →

This weather is awesome. Absolutely positively, magically, fantastically awesome.

Following the usual steamy Christmas day, after the rain rolled in, the mercury in Brisbane hasn't even come close to topping 30 degrees. As you can tell, i'm loving it. I hate heat and I hate summer, and this holiday has to be one of the most meteorologically comfortable Christmas breaks I can remember.

The past few days have seen me mainly playing the Nintendo. After about 24 solid hours of gameplay i'm still only half way through Zelda. It's a massive game.

Yesterday we had planned to to go 4-wheel … Read more →

I've just finished watching I, Robot on DVD. After seeing it over two years ago, it has actually become one of my favourite movies. I know it isn't exactly faithful to the works by Isaac Asimov, and there are a lot of product placements in the movie, but I really enjoyed it and I encourage all to see it if you haven't already.

Today has been spent doing nothing much really. I got up and played Wii Tennis with Despina a few times, achieving 'Pro' status the process. After that I continued playing Zelda for a while. Today my sister … Read more →

Today, of course, is Christmas. A big 'Merry Christmas!' to everybody!

Honestly for myself today doesn't really feel like Christmas. I dunno, it's probably tied into the fact that this is our first Christmas after getting married, which also means that this is the first Christmas not spent at my former home or at least totally with my parents.

This morning we went to Church to the later 8am English Liturgy, there being much less people than I expected. Either everybody went to the earlier Greek one to satisfy impatient youngsters, or attendance was seriously down this year.

This year … Read more →