2006.......

The end of a great year. Many ups and downs...smiles and frowns...and the year in which i found myself more and more.

Let's Hope 07 hosts many of the same aspects plus many new ones!

Happy New Year!!

Xbox 360

I have to say, i have never found a better games console...EVER. it really is a great product...Microsoft are really on to something special with this, forget the PS3...Xbox 360 has much more to offer and it's available now. The new Nintendo Wii's current rival in the console world...or is it? Nintendo are also on to something pretty good with a whole new concept of playing video games with the Wii-mote...really makes me consider how much gaming has advanced since the Nintendo 64.

Just when you thought single player gaming was as good as it gets...the Xbox introduces Xbox Live, where you can communicate and play with your friends online...now you might be thinking 'oh wait, the PS2 had that too' ...but let me tell you, i've tried both...and Xbox live really makes the PS2 bog standard online play look like dial up sitting next to 11mb ADSL! Xbox live has so many features with plenty of cool stuff to offer, chat with friends (message or voice), game dependent online features, too much stuff to mention. Let's start with a few games and their online features.

Call of Duty 3...you can build an army of friends online to compete against or with each other to beat the computer...or another army constructed by someone half way across the world...whilst playing you can chat with each other online using the headset provided with the xbox. That's just the tip of the ice berg.

Pro Evo...play in a league with or against each other, play in a quick match.....

...There really is too much to offer and it such a great gaming experience that you really have to try it out for yourself to get the gist of it.

I played today from about 2pm untl 00.30am :D

Merry Christmas :)

Merry Christmas Everyone :) ...the last year really has flown in, and i remember this time last year thinking about the NEXT Christmas....sadly...this Christmas was the last one i'll spend in this house :( ...Here are some of the gifts i received.


The Tommy Emmanuel DVD that Chris sent me :)


Inside the DVD :D ...Tommy signed it for me :D:D


The Incubus poster my mates got me and got framed :D It'll go perfectly in my new room.


The Xbox 360!!!!


Our Tree :-) I decorated it (no comments about how bad it looks :P)


I still like to believe in the childhood excitement that once lived inside me every Christmas Eve...this decoration revives it for me. Ho Ho Ho!!


So that was a brief summary of my Christmas...and a very badly constructed post, but it's Christmas (or boxing day now) and i'd like to keep it as short as possible. So Merry Christmas to all and have a Happy New Year!

Modern Cognition

Imagine a world....60 years ago with technology 60 years before it was created. Imagine a world war...with todays technology. would the war last longer or shorter? how much more or less damage would be caused? how would it affect the future? would there be a future? All of these questions are really supposed to be thought provoking and rhetorical of course...the answers are obvious in some ways. We have some a long way since then...the world has changed, our methods of communication has changed, our styles of music have changed, our views on political issues (in some cases) have changed, our views on moral standards, drugs, violence and video games have all changed. The world is forming conspiracies detracting from what is true...a theory formed by man is never as well structured as one formed by God. There could quite possibly be irony in that statement...because inevitably someone will always find something wrong in almost everything, but do we have the tolerance for it? Do we have the tolerance for ourselves? Do we have the tolerance to step back and look at the world a way a conservationist does? Let's all turn off our TV's, Computers, Radios and all other electronic devices and stop allowing the media to think for us...imagine the media didn't exist, would we all think for ourselves? would we all agree on much more? would we have more faith? would we be able to remember the true meaning of Christmas? would it seem strange that an atheist celebrates Christmas like the rest of us? but why? for the commercial values? to fit in? to be part of the majority?

The world has moved on...yet maybe we should take a step back.

So i'm back once again...i realised i haven't posted here in quite a long time, so i figured it'd be best if i do.

Christmas is approaching quickly, and it's the time of year where everything gets really hectic and people start rushing around the place like headless chickens out buying presents for family and friends or themselves. It's been a strange experience lately...my home town has gone from it's usual emptiness to this mass explosion of people everywhere, shopping, rushing, pushing you out of their way because they're on their way to a shop to get that one gift they're scared someone else will buy about 30 seconds before they get to it, and thus, if i got in their way, i may be the cause of someone being unhappy this Christmas. It's a strange thought...but i think we're all in a similar mind set.

The internet social networking site i mentioned last month (Bebo) ...the battle is still continuing to have this shut down or something, personally i feel that this kind of behaviour from a school principal is slightly out of line. It's like an invasion of privacy and human rights, we should all have our rights to have a page online, to say what ever we like without a SCHOOL principal telling us what to do, what to write, what to say, how to act, how to dress, what pictures to have online, what music to like, what relationships to have, what friends to have. It's maybe a bit extreme...but there is some megalomanical behaviour going on in this persons mind. Bebo is merely a social networking site...a place for friends to connect, talk, share music, pictures, comments, thoughts. The latter is what i think this certain person cannot stand...thought...modern thought is never something this person has been a fan of and i think that any modern thought he or she experiences, possibly even concerning themselves is too much to handle for them....the way the child views the principal is something he or she cannot handle.

Maybe i'm rambling a bit, but we'll see what comes of this whole 'battle to have bebo shut down' ...i think it's stupid and a delusion of their own power that makes them think they can control pupils outside of school.