• 10Oct 08

  My Xbox 360 malfunction was good?

  Today I saw the return of my Xbox 360. It had been too long since my hands had touched the perfection of it's joypad despite it only being 10 days away from me on it's journey to Frankfurt and back. I couldn't hold back the smile upon receiving the box from the UPS courier and so I made my quickest signature ever on his new fangled piece of technology and nigh on ran up to my flat and fed it's cable once more into their housing. I couldn't decide which game to play what with owning 51 titles for it and so decided to flip a coin onto 'The Gaming Shelf'. The coin came down on Guitar Hero III and swiftly it was placed onto the disc tray. Feeling that I needed to work the controller but not myself I opted for normal mode and went in for 'When You were young' by The Killers. I flew through the song like no time I had ever done before and amassed a score of 131000+ beating my previous score by a good 13000. I thought it was just a good song and so moved on to my next choice 'Anarchy in the UK' by the Sex Pistols. It happened again, I had racked up a 5 star rating and thrashed on this occasion, my previous score. This has occured on 6 songs in a row now and I just couldn't believe that it was happening after not playing the game for a good 6 weeks or so.

  So what is my message here some of you may be thinking, well I give you this; every now and then take a brief sabbatical from your games. Despite practice being the mother of all learning, taking a break can do you just as much good sometimes.

  On a final note I would just like to praise Microsoft for their very quick service of my console which cost me nothing (Sony/Nintendo take note). I had little faith in them until today but I have been truly surprised. MInd you it would be better if they could make the console a little more reliable in the first place!

  • Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:20 am GMT
  • Category: Computers
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• 17Sep 08

  Watch out, spammers about!

  I just received a PM which started with the line 'hi, what's up'. This is a spam for a dating website and if you receive it be sure to report the message as abusive to the mods. Let's get these fools banned. That is all!
  • Posted Sep 17, 2008 5:04 am GMT
  • Category: Rant
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• 9Sep 08

  The End Of The World (LHC)

  Tomorrow, one way or another, the world will be a different place. According to naysayers there is a 1/50000000 (one in fifty million) chance that the scientific experiment which the Large Hadron Collider is being used to create will cause the destruction of either the planet or possibly the entire universe.

  The machine is being used to cause a collision of two beams of 7TeV particles also known as the 'God Particles' due to their supposed creation of life itself and scientists are using this to watch what happened at the very start of the creation of the Universe. Some say that the experiment will cause massive tectonic and volcanic activity to the planet which will, if not destroy the planet, wipe out life on the planet whilst others are saying that the collision will cause a mini black hole. This is the worst kind of black hole and will result in the almost immediate dismissal of Earth, the Sun will take approximately 6 mins to be consumed and eventually the universe will be swallowed.

  Primary testing of the machine will begin tomorrow and the experiment itself will be conducted on 21st of October so until the experiment begins I guess that we all should start living our lives to the fullest. I guess I'm going to have to finish off Mercenaries 2 a little quicker just in case!

  • Posted Sep 9, 2008 8:40 am GMT
  • Category: Science
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