Well another year of super event is coming to a close tonight, there's been plenty to see and take in with lots of new games to add to the xmas list. For us here in Australia each event has been at midnight or 2.30am for the Sony, so the last 3 nights have been very late for me and countless others I dare say.
Unfortunately missed out on the MS emblem because the site crashed and couldn't get on until about 40 minutes later but still a good show.
The Wii held alot of interest for me as there' plenty of interactive games coming, esp Force Unleashed. and finally the sony annoucement of the cheaper PS3 made my ears prick up, just have to hint to the wife for the xmas list.
So I hope everyone had a good time and these are the nice little emblems or combinations that we've picked up.





oh and these ones for the GSers that watched and soaked up all the E3 events.

so I've been tagged, mmmm, so here's the 10 things;

1. Live in Australia

2. Going overseas for 8 weeks to sunny Ireland, England, Scotland, France.

3. Owned a Commodore 64 and an a Amiga

4. Only even driven Ford cars

5. Loves my wife and 2 children

6. Turns 40 in August.

7. Enjoys Sci-fi movies and series. Favourite being Blade Runner, Close encounters of the 3rd kind and Empire Strikes back

8. Listens to trance music.

9. Has had cancer twice and has survived the mental and physical strain.

10. Loves talking to people.

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
What a movie, thorough enjoyed it. Its taken a long time for spielberg to come up with the goods for this one. Grabbing a past flame and the new boy from Transformers, he's out to grab the power away before the russians try to take over the world. A great story, special effects and a great score, make this the 4th installment worth watching for all you indy nuts and adventurors. Its been so long since I seen The Last Crusade at the movies.....

Indiana Jones Game
Well soon as this came out it was off to the shops to keep the Lego franchise kicking along until the Batman one comes out. Have been playing it to death and its quite different to the star wars game having a more open level and a whole set of different moves for the characters. Plenty of hidden bonuses to discover, Having only finished the Raiders level so far, there's plenty of playability left in this one.

one final note, daughter's surgery went well, everything is going great guns

over and out

New Job
Well I started my new job today after 7 weeks off work looking after my children. Got my own office, laptop, phone etc and ready to hit the customers already. Don't have a view of the river but oh well, I can still see it from the board room. I'm taking my mascot to work as well so I've got a little bit of home with me... by the way its Wile E Coyote, a little toy picked up from Mcdonalds a while back.

My darling daughter
She's got to go into hospital next week to have eye surgeory to correct her lazy eye. I know its the best thing for her, but as a dad you always worry about your family being in hospital. Its just a day operation so we can bring her home and give her lots of icecream.

The PS3 Vs Wii
What to do???? I was looking at a PS3, but I want to play my old ps2 games so until they bring out the next 80gb version over here. I hav to wait, BUT my wife wants the Wii and from all accounts they've got a better game base and the Fit. What do people think honestly? I don't know which way to go....

AMD vs Intel
Looking a building a new compy and with this contest always hotly contested its hard to decide. I've always been a AMD person and have never had a stability problems using AMD with nvidia cards. I was thinkin about the new 9800 nvidia card and the AMD quad 2.4ghz.. What do the PC guru's out there think?

The Trip
Its exactly12 weeks to my big holiday and I've finally got the job and they know about my little 8 week trip so everything's falling into place. I've just got to sort out the card hire in Ireland. so far about 700 pounds for 4 weeks.. for a ford mondeo. Then we'll be set.. Might see some of you around if your in ireland, england, scotland, france.. I'll keep you posted.

Lego Death Star
You may of noticed I'm the leader of the Lego union so with that I thought I'd just let you know I won a Lego Death Star off ebay for $316 coming from somewhere in America. Get that, its cheaper to buy it there than here in Australia. The lowest I see it in the shops was $525.

Stamp Collection
Anyone fancy swapping australia stamps???? I've got way too many to sort so if you want some, PM me, I'll sort somthing out. Posting would be just like posting a letter to somewhere in the world .. anyway my lappy's getting hot in my lap so I'm signing off and see you around the unions...
Cheers
Devvy

FINALLY after 6 weeks of job hunting, sending out resumes and letters, I've scored myself a great job that'll see me thru my years. Working for Arrow Electronics, I be hitting the ground running. With a nice little pay package as well. WOOHOO.
Just incidently, if you think recruitment agencies work, here's some stats for you;

Jobs applied for : 70, 93% recruitment agencies
Replies via phone : 11
Replies via email : 23
so that's less that 50% replies
Interviews with agencies : 7
Interviews with employers : 2

My advice when job hunting, go straight to the employer's website and email directly to them, that's how I got this one.
Good luck if your on the hunt.

Hot on the heels of downloading this little beastie from gamespot, here's the first half of the entire level play for the demo.

Looking forward to this one;



Over and out