For Pete's Sake

Now where did I put that...

So I got a wee bit nostalgic and noticed that later this month, about the 14th I think this blog will be 4 years old! Now it hasn’t necessarily been the most active of blogs over this time period but it’s interesting to note what’s happened since then.

First of all Cati and I got married 8 months later and squeezed in a visit to Australia. Man Utd won the Champions League for the 3rd time in 2007 and of course America voted in their first African-American President. I know there are tons more stuff as well but I could pretty much go on for longer than you’re going to be bothered to read listing all the things that have happened in the past 4 years. Less to say a lot has happened, some good, some bad but overall I’m still here and still, on occasion, blogging. What was also interesting to see was how my writing style has changed. Right at the start the posts were short, to the point and quite general. Moving through I’ve slowly started posting on topical subjects and quite often waffling for far longer than I should be in posts as well. I’m not sure whether the quality of the posts have improved, that’s your call, but I’d like to think they have, especially recently.

The other thing that has changed a lot over that time has been WordPress and I have to say that the current iteration is a joy to work with. From the automatic updating of WordPress itself, to the ease at which I can install themes, plugins and update them. Gone are the annoying days of backing up the whole site, deactivation of plugins, upgrading, reactivating only to find I’ve deleted a folder I shouldn’t and have lost all the images which is why a lot of older posts are pictureless. What I’m trying to point out is blogging now is a lot easier than it was and I’m grateful to WordPress for providing the platform on which to do it.

So please, go and browse the archives of this blog, let me know what you think of how things have changed and what I can work on for the future; it would be interesting to hear anyones thoughts.

Through my trawls through my usual online forums I found a post about the fact that you can apparantly fix a “3 rings of doom” XBox 360. Now it has to be said that the technique (wrapping the 360 in towels) is a might dangerous but it is interesting to see that it does actually work. More ( here )

Did some looking around IWOOT and found the coolest little desktop accessory.. a finger drum kit!! Yes it’s true, rather than tapping your desk you could be playing the drums! Check the coolness out ( here )

Yet again, the boffins who do marketing for Sony, have hit on yet another great ad campaign for Sony’s line of Bravia televisions. For those who wish, you can see the video on Google ( here )

Motion Capture is pretty boring, but thanks to Eurogamer.net I found these gems [here] [here] [here] & [here]. Who said Mo-Cap was boring?!