Archive for February, 2007

A Few Thoughts About Crackdown

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I am not sure about this game.  On the one hand the graphics and sound effects are fantastic, but on the other hand the lack of mission structure and repetitiveness may put some people off. 
Lets talk about the graphics and sound first.  Graphically, the game looks brilliant.  It has a cel-shaded cartoony look to […]

I made an Error

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

In a bid to save money I am doing all sorts of cleaning up of my internet services. I am in the middle of changing isps and next I decided to cancel one of my domains.  It was only £2.50 a month, but it was £2.50 I could spend on other things.  So yesterday I […]

I finally bagged an HDTV

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

After several years of hankering for an HDTV I finally got one. 
A Polaroid one in fact.  I have never associated Polaroid with televisions before, but it had an impressive specification sheet and an impressive price.
 
26″ Widescreen 720p
2 x HDMI sockets
2 x scarts
1 x component
1 x VGA
loads of audio connectors
Picture in Picture
8ms response […]

Day with FutureNet

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Well I had my day out in Bath yesterday with the team of the Windows Vista Official Magazine.  It was quite a good day.  Took a few pictures on the way, all photos were taken with Sony Ericsson K750i camera phone.  I left home at around about 7.30am to get my connecting trains.
 
At Maidenhead station […]

It’s All Very Exciting

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

A few weeks ago I applied to be on the reader panel for the Official Windows Vista Magazine (UK). I was duly accepted and had to write a few words about Vista networking.
The following day an email was sent out asking if anyone was interested in going to their offices in Bath to do a reader […]

Halo 3 Beta locked to Crackdown

Friday, February 9th, 2007

If anyone is buying Crackdown to get the Halo 3 beta and intends on immediately flogging the game on ebay, you are out of luck.
According to XboxFanboy website to play the beta it requires the Crackdown disc to be in use at the time.
Bad luck people.  Oh well, I was giving to give my beta […]

Army uses 360 Controller

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Well if it is good enough for the Army…
Picture here