Archive for May, 2008
Posted on May 25, 2008 - by Jordan H
Xbox 360 Tomorrow!
After tomorrow, any 360 fans will be able to play me on the console! That’s right, I’m buying an Xbox 360! Add me, I’ve pre-registered my gamertag: JordanH21
Posted on May 18, 2008 - by Jordan H
On comments…
Comments are no longer moderated after your first comment has been approved! But I’m now using Aksimet to stop any automated spam from being posted. Oh, and you can comment on mini-posts by clicking the (0) link after the post.
Posted on May 17, 2008 - by Jordan H
Where’s Web 2.0 Gone?
Forget Web 2.0, Twine seems to call itself a Web 3.0 project! How long was its lifespan supposed to be? I think they should have stuck to 2.5, else at the rate we’re going, next week there’ll be a Web 5.0!
Posted on May 16, 2008 - by Jordan H
Friday nights…
Well, it’s been a long week, but Friday is here. This week, I’ve been to All Saints Church, I bought a Flickr Pro account, I’ve done quite a few French tests (and got amazingly good scores in them), and Friday has finally come. I’m gonna kick up my feet tonight and head for the PS3. I’ll probably play some GTA4 with my clan and then retire to my laptop in bed later. Life is good!
Posted on May 14, 2008 - by Jordan H
The Apprentice
Series Four of the popular TV show The Apprentice has been on our screens for almost ten weeks! It’s always a great laugh watching Alan Sugar having a go at the candidates when they mess up. I’m quite glad that Jenny went out last week though! Anyway, this week they have to sell wedding items at the NEC in Birmingham. I hope that they do a television shopping channel task like the last series, although I still can’t see a clear winner out of all of the candidates.
What do you think? Let me know, feel free to drop a comment.
>Jordan
Posted on May 13, 2008 - by Jordan H
The Riverdance in Blackpool
I don’t know how many of you were watching the news in late January and early February, when a ship called the Riverdance ran aground off the shore of Cleveleys, near Blackpool. I went shortly after that, and got some pictures of the ship and the masses of people who turned out to see the stricken ship.
I’ve finally got round to uploading those photos to Flickr. I’ve put them all up in a set on Flickr for you to look at. Feel free to comment on them there or here.
>Jordan
Posted on May 13, 2008 - by Jordan H
Visit to All Saints Church
I went here with school yesterday (Monday). The purpose of the trip was to get some sketches and pictures of All Saints Church (in Hesketh Bank), for the Art project we are currently working on - Architecture. And I sure did get some pictures - about 80 of them! I’ve uploaded about 60 to Flickr, so see my photo set for the full lot.
Let me know what you think by adding a comment.
>Jordan
Posted on May 10, 2008 - by Jordan H
A Tale of Two Consoles…
You may recall last Christmas, when I got my PS3. All was well. I despised the Xbox 360 and everything to do with it, despite being told many times by friends to get one. I was a devoted Sony fan, won over by everything the PS3 had to offer - free online play, great games, Blu-ray support. All was well.
Then I got a few more games - Burnout and Assassins Creed - and enjoyed the gameplay of both, and the amazing online of Burnout. I made new friends on the PS3, and was persuaded to buy Call of Duty 4. All was well.
Then I got CoD4. I was plagued by the constant errors - “Cannot connect to host” - and much to my dismay, those gamers on the 360 had none of this. Our complaints to the game developers were ignored. Then I joined a clan, and found the lack of an in-game messaging system pretty annoying. Still, I put up with it, hoping for this much-requested feature in the next update.
The next update came, and went. So did the next one. They redesigned the store, but still no game invites, no in-game messaging, no sign of PlayStation Home, their big selling point, in sight. By this time it was getting to the point of insanity. Why can’t we have some basic features that the users of the 360 have had since launch?
Then GTA IV was released. I loved the single player, and me and my mate (who has a 360) had a night playing it. He brought his 360, I played on my PlayStation. He was playing away online, joining games full of players. I couldn’t get into a single game. Even when I hosted one, I hardly gathered 6 players, never mind 16, and kept getting disconnected from my own games.
Now my other friend is getting a next-gen console. When he asked for my advice on which console to buy, he seemed surprised when I said the 360. Unfortunately, I’ve put my money and trust in Sony and they’ve let me down. I’m now seriously considering jumping the band-wagon over to Microsoft and the Xbox 360.
Sure, I don’t mind paying £40 a year to play online. If you can get into games and have fun with your friends, it’s worth whatever money you’re paying. It seems that developers favour the 360, and so do the players. Sony released figures a few days ago saying that ‘the PS3 is outselling the 360 in Europe’. What’s the use in that if they can’t run an online gaming service?
The world of gaming is moving more and more onto online play, and consumers won’t put up with delays and excuses no longer.