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Archive for May, 2007

Dreamcast as never before seen

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I wrote a little earlier regarding the untimely demise of my Dreamcast. Fortunately, my brother had another machine safely tucked away in his closet and thus the day was saved.
All this means that I finally was able to test out the system with my recently acquired VGA cable which, I’m pleased to report, does a [...]

HD-DVD goodness

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Honestly, once I had the 360 in my possession I certainly couldn’t resist the HD-DVD add-on drive. Such a lovely picture and the new in-play menus are certainly a nice feature. Pleasingly, a recent update has added support for DTS audio output. The only slight downside is that the player comes bundled with King Kong, [...]

Sydney FC bows out of AFC Champions League

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Urawa Red Diamonds 0 drew with Sydney FC 0
At Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan
Despite a strong performance that saw them dominate much of proceedings, Sydney were unable to find the winning goal they needed in order to leapfrog Urawa on the Group table and qualify for the quarter finals. Although exiting at this stage after having [...]

Adventures in Cable Tidying

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

One sleepless night, I finally decided I couldn’t stand the mess of cables behind my Home Theater setup and decided to take drastic action. I pulled everything out, moved things around and then got down to the messy task of wiring everything up again - but this time making sure to tie up extra lengths [...]

Asian Champions League 2007 - Matchday 5

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Sydney FC 0 drew with Shanghai Shenhua 0
At Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, Australia

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Asian Champions League 2007 - Matchday 4

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Sydney FC 3 defeated Persik Kediri 0
At Parramatta Stadium, Sydney, Australia

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A sad loss

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

My poor Dreamcast stuck its little legs in the air and died the other day. The signs were there though - for a while now, it has only read discs when placed upside down - but it’s now total inability to read anything is still a shame. Particularly as I only just procured a VGA [...]

Will Wii, will Wii not

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

It’s proving quite difficult for me to form an overall opinion on the Wii. For every positive, there seems to be a negative. Take, for example, the Virtual Console. It was one of the features that grabbed my attention straight away but then dark clouds started to form. Unoptimized 50Hz games - a horrible legacy [...]

Site updates to commence again…

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

I’m finally settled into my new house, in a new city, with a new job, so I daresay I’ll be updating this journal again some stage soon. I’ve been spending a lot of time with my XBOX360 lately — I finally broke down and grabbed one after much resistance — but I’ve also been hooked [...]