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I promise that this will be my last entry for a while on how great the Wii is. Today Nintendo released for download a web browser based on Opera for the Nintendo Wii.

As Michael has commented in the previous entry, this allows browsing of the internet through the console on the TV. It's a little tedious having to type using a point-and-click on-screen keyboard, but once you have your regular sites in the favourites you shouldn't really need to do it all that much.

I also recently received an early Christmas present of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess… Read more →

I've noticed it now a few times on TV shows: characters bragging about having gone a lengthy time without vomiting (which usually leads to them somehow ending their run). One of the few that immediately comes to mind is the Seinfeld episode in which a cookie ends Jerry's non-vomit streak, and also more recently in How I Met Your Mother with Ted proudly boasting that he was "vomit-free since '93", which also turned out to have ended in the course of the episode.

If i may say so myself, I am quite proudly also in the middle of my very … Read more →

Did you notice? I actually refused an opportunity to put 'Wii' into the title! Quite proud of myself really...

As you've probably guessed from the last entry, i've spent a fair part of the weekend playing the thing. My arms and even my legs are quite sore from swinging the remotes and moving around on my feet.

However there's only so much Wii Sports and Wii Play that you can take before you start hungering for a more proper standalone game. I'll probably wait till after Christmas to get one though, in order see how many gift vouchers I … Read more →

So many titles to chose from:! 'Welcome to the Wiikend', 'There's Wii on the Floor', etc etc.

As you can probably tell, today I caved into the marketing and hype and actually bought myself a Nintendo Wii (pictured). What was the main catalyst in the breaking of my weak resistance? Today was the work Christmas party at lunch, and we were given Christmas bonuses in the form of Coles Myer gift cards, which were larger than I expected.

This subsequently pushed the Wii into the 'probably affordable' range, and truthfully, I don't know what else I would have used those … Read more →

Another awesome title from me! *dodges the rotten tomatoes and rubbish thrown at me*

As i've blogged before, it's been tough resisting the temptation to buy a Nintendo Wii. The internet stories saying how great it is has been pushing me to my limits. Rolando even managed to convince my wife (formerly the bastion of resistance and my main cause of not getting one, second to the fact that we can't afford it of course), that it was actually really great and now she subsequently wants to get one also.

Today my friend at work Michael cracked before I … Read more →

I've been driving for almost seven years now, and I have not had one single traffic related offence against my name. Up until Friday that is.

Yes I got a parking ticket, the top of it pictured right. I had been parking in the same place for three weeks (which was sorta on the footpath of a backstreet that nobody uses) without getting booked so I thought that nobody cared, but on Friday they did. Fifty bucks for a parking ticket? Council must be raking it in over the city.

Anywho, this entry is capping off another pretty busy weekend. … Read more →

I've just gotten back from watching Casino Royale in Gold Class and I feel the need to quickly blog my impressions and thoughts of the movie before they permanently escape from my brain. Insert the usual warnings about spoilers here, but i'll try my best to make my points without ruining the plot at all.

I guess if I had to sum up my view on the film in one sentence it would have to be: It was a great movie, but it wasn't a Bond movie.

It had a great plot, great actors, and i would have to say … Read more →

I know, i know, terrible title, but i thought I might as well make my own contribution to the really terrible play on words floating around the internet and the press.

Guess what just came out? Yes, the Nintendo Wii was released in Australia today. I have to be honest and say that I am resisting every temptation to buy this thing. Thankfully the Mrs reminds me of what will happen to me if i don't.

I know that eventually i will end up getting one, but i think i'm willing to wait until the first 'revision' of the console … Read more →

Yesterday I had a really unnerving experience driving to lunch. I almost, stress almost, had a serious car accident driving to none other than the usual Nando's. Driving along Vulture St, some idiot decided to reverse out of the Cyprus House driveway (of all places!), obviously without consulting the road to see if someone just might be driving on it.

Unfortunately I was, and was given just enough time to slam on the brakes and at the same time swerve right, missing him by less than half a metre according to my judgement. I'm not sure if i'll be forgetting … Read more →

As you can probably tell, i have mildly enjoyed not being pressured into blogging in the last few days. 😉

I gladly finished work on Friday, the afternoon before 5pm just seemed to drag on forever. Friday night was spent watching a movie at my parent's place. I opted to watch the last Bond film, Die Another Day, ahead of watching the new one next week in Gold Class cinemas (we're forced to use vouchers which are expiring soon). Watch out for my rant on how Daniel Craig does not fit the character of James Bond.

Yesterday we did … Read more →