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Archive for July, 2008

Sydney kick off pre-season cup

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

The A-League’s 2008 Pre-season Cup kicked off last weekend, with Sydney coming from behind to defeat Queensland Roar 2-1 at Campbelltown Stadium. The home side were missing a number of players, notably marquee player John Aloisi who will be out until at least round 2 of the A-League season.
Sydney FC head to Gosford to play [...]

Just Virtualizin’

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I’ve been quite smitten by VMWare lately — their free products, natch — and have sunken quite a few hours into playing around with it. It’s really coming in handy for test PCs when I want to look into a feature; I now have one PC with a stack of VM images on it which [...]

Eternal whatever

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

I’ve just started a second playthough (NewGame+) of Eternal Sonata after leaving plenty of time since initially completing it — so the memory would at least fade a little. It actually has a nice NewGame+ mode: enemies are harder and there are collectibles that were unavailable the first time round, making it essential for obsessive-compulsive [...]

Back in business

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I meant to post this earlier: my 360 arrived back safely after repairs to fix the dreaded Red Ring of Death. All up, including shipping, it only took just over a week - compare this to the Sony Blu-ray player that also died about the same time, and is still waiting on back-ordered parts. ETA [...]

*Sob*

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Shit, shit and double-shit. The day after the Blu-ray player I was using decides it no longer wants to read any discs, my 360 gives the dreaded Red Ring of Death. It locked up during a game the night before and when I went to turn it on after work *pow* it was all over. [...]