About an hour ago I finished Halo 3 for the first time, in easy mode. Easy mode means that if you have any kind of eye-to-hand coordination, the game won’t be much of a challenge to you. For those of us with really crappy eye-to-hand coordination, easy mode is just hard enough to make you [...]

I am one of those hard core fans of the 360 platform that at the same time dreaded the arrival of Halo 3. Why? Because from two weeks or so before launch, and for at least a month after, all we’ll hear about is frickin Halo 3. It is not exactly a bad thing, one [...]

The site is now running WordPress 2.3, which is probably the fastest I have upgraded it in quite a while. As usual, something broke. I did my usual paranoid upgrade: disabled all plugins, complete database backup, copied locally my theme and my plugins, then deleted everything in the server except for the configuration file (after [...]

How hard is it to get both an Xbox 360 and a Comcast HDTV cable box connected to the same TV at the same time, both in HDTV mode? In theory: Case A: First generation Xbox 360 connects to one set of YPbPr inputs. If your TV has two sets of YPbPr inputs, then use [...]

A few years ago I purchased my very first 5GB iPod for $300. A decade earlier, as a US Army PFC my after-tax bi-weekly salary was about $330 or so, ever since then I have always been curious about what $300 buys me. My first DVD player was $300 sometime in late 1997. It came [...]

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, so make sure to annoy your coworkers by talking like a pirate wannabe. And please, watch your back for ninjas! Cool Pirates: The Pirate Bay Captain Jack Sparrow Captain Harlock  What about ninjas? Do they get their day? The reason there’s a talk like a pirate day is [...]

Being a workaholic sucks, there’s just no doubt about it. Your personal life takes a hit, so does your health. Your employers can’t help but to take advantage of your weakness. You lose money due to use-or-lose vacation allowances. Even worse is to be a telecommuter workaholic, which is my case. You know you have [...]

Sometimes you just have too much fun for your own good. After a handful of roadblocks getting to understand and enjoy the game, I started liking it. A lot. The roadblocks are the kind of thing you run into a game that really kills the fun. For example, in Gears of War, the first time [...]

The Godfather is nowhere close to new, as a matter of fact it was released almost one year ago. My main excuse to get it is that I had Goozex credits for a swap and I got curious. The game reminds me a little bit about Crackdown. The environment is more or less open, and [...]