Life and Leisure. Tech and Toys.

I got through the third week of lent, but it wasn’t easy. Temptations were thrown in my direction in the form of roommates playing the Starcraft 2 Beta and my pre-ordered copy of Final Fantasy XIII landing on my doorstep. Amazon’s release day delivery actually works! Sadly, I can’t even take advantage of it.
On the [...]

I just got a new laptop at work and since this is the first time I’m using a ThinkPad I’ve been annoyed at the position of the Fn key. The Fn key is literally in the exact spot where I would expect the Ctrl key. After a little searching online I found this is actually [...]

Another week of lent is in the books. Unfortunately I’m still feeling relatively the same as last week. However I’ve been more active this past weekend which made it much easier. This weekend I was out of the house and occupied so it didn’t give me any time to be bored and tempted to play [...]

This past week I noticed tiny black spots in my DLSR camera’s viewfinder. These specks didn’t affect my picture quality but were a great annoyance. After inspecting the Viewfinder Eye Piece and swapping lenses I knew the dust particles must be clinging to the internals of the viewfinder. After scouring some online forums, I found [...]

After one whole week of avoiding video games, I have to say it’s beginning to weigh on me. I’m hoping this is just the hump at the start and the rest is down hill.
Mostly I’ve been having to deal with some stress build up and some boredom. It’s surprisingly hard to work all day and [...]

Today begins the first day of Lent. I’ve been blogging about giving up video games for Lent for a couple weeks now and the time has finally arrived where I do it for real. Last night I didn’t have time to get in my last hours of gaming so I guess I kind of started [...]

*UPDATE – This roster update is now available (02/20/2010).
To recap, the latest Madden 10 roster update removed this years retiring players from the game completely. This includes Kurt Warner, Bertrand Berry and Junior Seau. The roster update created an uproar in the Madden community being the first time players were removed for retirement in the [...]

The infinite care package glitch has now been taken care of. Start up the game while connected to Xbox Live to download the patch.
All is well in the world of Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer… Until someone finds a new annoying way to exploit the system.
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In preparation for my 40 days without video games I’ve won the Madden 10 Super Bowl, won the NBA 2k10 Championship and defeated Ares in God of War. Of course I didn’t actually beat the games from start to finish in the past week but I cleaned up the games I was almost done with. [...]

This cropped screen shot was captured on my Facebook homepage. I don’t know what the girl in the picture has to do with winning an Apple iPad but it certainly got my attention. I hate ads like this because the image has nothing to do with the ad itself, its just an easy way to [...]