Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Thanks Spam!

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Like most people I get a ton of spam to a couple of my email accounts. i get several varieties, most prevalent are drug-related (e.g. "James lost 30LBS with Colonex!") or my all-time favourite, the completely non-sensical waste of text (e.g. "Bedazzle cankerworm" or "Let me show you contraband monkey"). Anyway... ...

Don’t Ride The Don Valley Trail In The Rain

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

On Sunday I woke up groggy after a pretty late night out but I was excited because I was supposed to go biking on the Don Valley trail with some friends from work. I got a couple of text messages around 10am from two of the guys who were going ...

Metal Gear Solid 4 Sucks

Monday, June 30th, 2008

After hooking up my new PS3 last night I spent a few hours playing Metal Gear Solid 4, one of the two games that I bought along with the console. I've always considered myself a fan of the MG franchise and have played them all with the exception of Snake ...

Playstation 3 vs. Toshiba REGZA LCD

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I've been toying with the idea of buying a PS3 for a little while and I finally went through it this past weekend. Having worked on a few launch titles for both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 I've built up a pretty strong bias against the Sony console, and ...

Back in business

Friday, June 13th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how my Xbox 360 died. I tried the towel trick successfully but it was temporary at best. It would crash pretty consistently after that, so I ended up sending it back to Microsoft to get replaced/repaired. I gotta say, I was pretty impressed ...