Illuminatea

Nick has done a very bad thing. He bought me Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Xbox 360 as a late birthday present. After the stress of this last week, studying for (and passing) the Microsoft 70-237 and 70-238 exams (two-thirds of the Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Enterprise Messaging certification; I passed 70-236, the third, back ...

For the record, Aly & AJ's Potential Breakup Song is one hell of an earworm, but it sounds really good on my work desktop's speaker/subwoofer. I've got it cranked up loud before anyone else gets here.I have finally found out what is more annoying than getting your ass kicked online by a nine year-old kid -- getting your ass kicked by an ...

It's been a while since I've blogged much. There's been a few reasons for that, but I just finished the lastest one last night. Yes, that's right, our Christmas houseguest and I have been working back through Halo and Halo 2 in Cooperative mode in preparation for Halo 3. Last night, Chris and I finished Halo 3. WOW! Awesome game, great storyline. ...

Thanks to the miracle of Cragslist, I have an Xbox. Not an Xbox 360 -- that's the plan for the family Christmas gift -- but a regular Xbox, which is still more than enough to play all sorts of cool games I haven't played yet. For $65, I got the following: Xbox console, A/V and power cables, two small Xbox controllers,  and nine games:4x4 Evo ...

For those of you keeping track, I'm 35 now. Yup, had my birthday Wednesday. Going by a literal reading of the Bible, I'm half-way through my life span (''threescore and ten''). Going by modern numbers, I could in theory be only 1/3 of the way through my life. Going by actuarials....forget that. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. I should have ...