Monthly Archive for October, 2006

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1080p on the Xbox360

Published on October 8, 2006 in Technology and Xbox 360. 2 Comments Tags: HD-DVD, High Definition, Xbox 360.

A little more complicated then one would think…

I’ve been trying to make sense of this for sometime now, and only finally understood it. Microsoft have tried to get one over Sony in the HD (High Definition) war, and to be honest they’re hammering them hilariously. Although MS forgot to mention that 1080p wouldn’t be as simple as most people would have thought. The techy geeks knew it would be a complicated matter, and to be fair – it bloomin is. Depending on the method you’re using to connect the Xbox 360 to your TV set, you’ll obtain various results while watching films and playing games. I’ve been staring at a forum for what felt like hours last night and finally got my head around it.

Site updates

Published on October 6, 2006 in Site Stuff. 5 Comments Tags: K2 theme, Wordpress.

Another WordPress upgrade

I’ll be upgrading this blog over the next two weeks to a newer version of the K2 theme that you see in use at present. Also being upgraded will be WordPress itself to v2.04. This could result in the blog being a right utter mess over the next few weeks so bear with me here. To be honest, I’ve been wanting to move away from it so I could switch to something less complicated, but since I’ve more or less built this blog around the theme it’ll be hard recoding certain sections of it to another one.

I do have a stunning theme which I have been tweaking for the past couple of months during my spare time and I may possibly bring that online for a couple of days although I’m not sure.

Finally, I have had a few emails asking me to put up a gallery. I had already decided to add one to the blog but ran into problems months ago and I never looked at it again. To add to this, I’m so busy with my job that I hardly take photo’s as frequently as I once used to do anyway. Landscape photography was something I loved doing but I never showed off any of my work!

A night of karaoke madness

Published on October 4, 2006 in Life. 4 Comments

You’re beautifoool…

So I went out last night with some friends to celebrate the birthday of a friend of Taz’s. Now this was a last minute decision to go by yours truly and it was one which I was beginning to regret. It was a mid-week celebration so obviously nothing big was planned, except for a night in a pub in Harrow, which was holding its first karaoke night as the landlord had bought a new machine.

I can’t sing, or I thought I couldn’t. There were 8 of us and I was the only guy in the group which didn’t help matters. We all had a lot to drink downing pints, shots of anything that resembled alcohol and then took rotations on the machine. As I type this right now my chest literally hurts like hell from all the laughter – I’ve honestly never seen anyone make such an idiot of themselves on stage. Things couldn’t get worse, but then dear Taz hopped up, or should I say staggered up to the stage…