Step Through The Portal

This is one game that over the past few weeks that has really caught my attention.


I should be getting Chromehounds and MotoGP'06 through soon to review because we had a backlog of titles recently on news0r.

Purchase wise I should be getting Dead Rising soon unless I manage to pursuade either Neil or Luke to let me review it... which isn't likely to happen.

A Week To Get Things Done

So I've really been making progress with the many things I've been putting off for months now.

Last night I gutted the cupboard in my desk... to cut a long story short I spent an hour and a half this morning shredding documents such as bank statements, mobile phone bills and various other financial stuff related to university and such.

Anyway, I finally booked a driving lesson. Friday 6:30pm so i'll let you know how I get on when I get back after that. Should be fun getting behind the wheel after so long of just thinking about it and putting it off because of extortate insurance quotes.

I also I have an opticians appointment later on today. My eyes over the past 10 years have alternated from being short sighted to long sighted and back again. I'm going Specsavers because I can't be arsed to go to ASDA (from which I'd get discount) because its the other side of Warrington... a good hour and a half worth of travel. I'm getting ready to pay out £125 to get a pair of designer glasses and sunglasses... not that I particularly want to pay out that much but I have a habit of losing them and the way I see it (sorry, bad pun), I'm more likely to take great care if they've cost me a lot of money.

I just have to order Anita's 21st Birthday present and sort out my freelance letters to Imagine, Future, DNA and Uncooked Media before the end of the week. Shouln't take too long now... i'm just glad most of its over and done with now.

Oh yer, and I graduate a week today :s

Ebuyer... Why Are Thou So Slow

I'm looking at upgrading (read ripping apart and starting a new) my PC from what it was upgraded to Christmas 2004. At that time it was a monster PC...

AMD Althon 64bit 3500+ with 1GB Dual Channel RAM, an ATI X800XT 256mb graphics card with very little else seen to apart from upgrading the motherboard. Now its time to start a new (well, start saving anyway).

However, I'm trying to research component prices but am having no luck. I bought last time from overclocker but after having a bad experience with them trying to return something and get a refund (I eventually had to threaten them with trading standards to get them to do anything), i'd rather not use them again.

Oh well... back to the fun of waiting for it to load.