Not a lot to report, but I felt like I really should put something in my Blog to close off the month.
I'm nearly finished with my GeForce 6600GT review. Honest. Well, kinda. Hopefully I'll be done with it this week, if not I should be lynched. Away from that, I knocked out a brief CrossFire preview today to keep up with the Joneses. I'm also sat on some other pretty interesting information that I can't talk about, plus another opportunity for Elite Bastards that I'm very excited about. It could be a great stride forward for us as a site, and also pull us out in some new and intriguing directions. I don't want to reveal anything until I actually have guarantees in hand, but I'll keep you guys posted. :o) While we're talking EB gossip, the coming weeks will hopefully see the beginning of a redesign of the site. Again, I'm excited, although I do need to sit down and put the suggestions people have made together into a cogent plan on things we should look at doing.
Away from the site, things have been ticking along pretty reasonably. Arsenal won the FA Cup, and very undeservedly so, work is busy (But never too busy ;o)) and I have both the new Coldplay and Royksopp albums (Both of which I'm undecided on as far as my 'like-o-meter' goes). Went and saw Star Wars: Episode 3 on the opening night - I think my wife enjoyed it more than me, but it was still the best of the latest trilogy by far. To my shame, I laughed at one point where I was supposed to be upset... My wife will never let me near children again now I fear. :o( We'll probably try to catch Sin City this weekend (Yes, the UK sucks for movie releases), although I have a nasty feeling it's going to be a case of style over substance.
As a final point, I need a holiday - Anywhere know of a good place to stay in Wales, in the Cardiff area preferably?
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Don't Believe The Truth
Well, the main URL to my Blog is finally fixed after seemingly vanishing for a while - It turns out all I had to do was republish it, but I've been too lazy to do so until today. :oP
Not a great deal else to comment on really, life is just ticking along as per usual. On the Elite Bastards side of things, work is piling up - I have three video card reviews on the go now!! :oO Again, laziness is largely to blame, but hopefully I'll knuckle down to at least one of the reviews soon, I really want to get my look at a GeForce 6600GT out of the door soon. Fingers crossed I may be able to take a look at SLI in the coming months as well!
The other reason for my lack of working on EB content has been building a PC for my Dad, who has finally (scarily) decided to enter the information age. I'll be installing the whole set up at the weekend, but I'm mightily impressed with what I've been able to put together for him for just £350 - A Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 512MB of RAM, top-of-the-range NEC DVD writer (Another item which is kind of on my 'to review' list, I have a second unit available to me) and a 17" TFT. Despite being packed into a cheap case it all looks pretty sweet, so I hope he'll be impressed. And, more importantly, I hope he won't keep breaking things, I think I'll set up Remote Assistance on it just in case. ;o) It also managed to impress the wife with my PC building skills ('You managed to build a pretty PC from that box of stuff that got delivered yesterday?', she swooned :oP), which is always good. ;o)
Today's entry title comes from the name of the new Oasis album, which I finally got around to listening to last night, and I was pleasantly surprised by. It seems like a real break from all of their work before, it has a far more structured and melancholy feel to it rather than the usual 'anthemic' qualities of their stuff. I used to be a big Oasis fan, but was disappointed by everything post 'Be Here Now' - 'Don't Believe The Truth' feels like a true return to form for me. Talking music, I'm (im)patiently waiting for the new Coldplay album to make an appearance - In the meantime I've been listening to the new Gorillaz album (Not too bad) and a 2 CD live compilation of Kraftwerk stuff (Can't go wrong with them) to amuse myself. Oh, and the third OST to Naruto, which (in places) rocks. :o)
Not a great deal else to comment on really, life is just ticking along as per usual. On the Elite Bastards side of things, work is piling up - I have three video card reviews on the go now!! :oO Again, laziness is largely to blame, but hopefully I'll knuckle down to at least one of the reviews soon, I really want to get my look at a GeForce 6600GT out of the door soon. Fingers crossed I may be able to take a look at SLI in the coming months as well!
The other reason for my lack of working on EB content has been building a PC for my Dad, who has finally (scarily) decided to enter the information age. I'll be installing the whole set up at the weekend, but I'm mightily impressed with what I've been able to put together for him for just £350 - A Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 512MB of RAM, top-of-the-range NEC DVD writer (Another item which is kind of on my 'to review' list, I have a second unit available to me) and a 17" TFT. Despite being packed into a cheap case it all looks pretty sweet, so I hope he'll be impressed. And, more importantly, I hope he won't keep breaking things, I think I'll set up Remote Assistance on it just in case. ;o) It also managed to impress the wife with my PC building skills ('You managed to build a pretty PC from that box of stuff that got delivered yesterday?', she swooned :oP), which is always good. ;o)
Today's entry title comes from the name of the new Oasis album, which I finally got around to listening to last night, and I was pleasantly surprised by. It seems like a real break from all of their work before, it has a far more structured and melancholy feel to it rather than the usual 'anthemic' qualities of their stuff. I used to be a big Oasis fan, but was disappointed by everything post 'Be Here Now' - 'Don't Believe The Truth' feels like a true return to form for me. Talking music, I'm (im)patiently waiting for the new Coldplay album to make an appearance - In the meantime I've been listening to the new Gorillaz album (Not too bad) and a 2 CD live compilation of Kraftwerk stuff (Can't go wrong with them) to amuse myself. Oh, and the third OST to Naruto, which (in places) rocks. :o)
Sunday, May 01, 2005
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