… where do I start. About 2 weeks ago on eBay I bid on an Atari Jaguar with a number of games. Which I subsequently won later that week. A few days later I bid on a couple more auctions for Jaguar games, and managed to get Tempest 2000 and Double Dragon. Have now been trying to get Doom. Luckly just spotted an auction and have placed a bid.
Oooh, it was Kenton’s birthday bash on the 11th which was also a good night out, always good to see APR people, though not everybody made it.
Workwise things have been ticking along, have been tinkering with the Exchange Backup APIs, seems like a fair bit of Voodoo is going to be required. Been doing support and client site work, which is good however it means running around a lot. Hopefully things will start to settle down again next week.
Last month E3 happened, Nintendo unveiled the Gameboy DS and Sony showed off the PSP. Looks like we are going to be getting some hot portables next year, Nintendo have a proven track record, but Sony have some interesting software lined up. Pocket Metal Gear looks pretty good.
Last week also saw the launch of iTMS Europe, so now we in the UK, France and Germany can buy music online. On the first night I got 7 tracks, in fact I made an iMix as well. However it would seem you can’t link to an iMix entry over the web. If you are interested in what I bought seach for ‘fudo’ and you should find the playlist. I have to say I was a little disappointed with the amount of new music on offer, I guess this is because the record companies don’t want to effect single sales. Some of the artist back catalogs on offer are just amazing. I’m going to have to control myself though.
Movie wise, I watched the third Harry Potter movie a couple of weeks ago, it was what I expected, true to the book and the series of movies so far. God knows how long the franchise is going to continue for.
Last weekend I finally took delivery of a EPIA-M motherboard to play with, my main thing is to use it for something like Myth-TV or Freevo, will give both a try. Used Knoppix to get a basic Debian install up and running still try to get kernel 2.6 to drive the TV output properly.
