Yay, I have my own 360 now! Although it may only be a Core system (and thus lacking Hard Drive and headset), it’s still a fucking 360!

Gaiscioch from the Games Soc posted that he was selling the Core 360 he won at the last World Gamer Live event, so I thought it’d be worth it. Especially given he was selling the console AND Rainbow 6: Vegas for €250 (seperate in-store price: €370) – so yea, as you can tell I bought it

The lack of a headset does mean I won’t be playing online on any of the games I get or “borrow” from work – playing without voice is sooooo boring. However, my memory unit makes up for the lack of hard drive space and allows me to keep gaining the achievements I so whore!

So to come, in excruciating detail, is my 360 – and maybe something about how I game! Read the rest of this drivel…

OMFG, who’d have thought trying to turn part of a website from table-based layout to a div-based layout would take 3 fucking hours and be sooooooo frigging annoying to create!

Whilst working on the H3L test site I figured it would be a good idea to make the header using div’s instead of a table (mainly as I’m supposed to have the website for Web Design laid out using div’s and not a table) . Bad fucking idea. Given my bad track record with div’, it took AGES to do – and after about 50 different coding ideas I finally got it working (see below)

Oh, and if all goes according to plan, I’ll be having the guy selling me my new 360 walking up to me here in the lab within the next hour or two and selling it to me right here Read the rest of this drivel…

Who really wants a PS3? It seems no-one given the following scenarios for the European/Australian launch at midnight today:

London – Sydney

Yep, you did read correctly – they did give away a HDTV to all of the 100+ PS3 buyers, and the cherry on the top was a free taxi ride home! Just goes to show how desperate Sony must be to sell the PS3. Of course the stupid ad appearing in Windows Live Mail yesterday was fucking annoying. It also made me wonder “How come the PS3 logo is the same font as the Spiderman movie logo?”.

Oh, and EA shipped over a copy of Def Jam Icon for the PS3 to us. Only problem is, we don’t have a PS3 to play/review it on…..

Also, it doesn’t help when Microsoft have a river boat looking like this passing by your river-side launch in Paris:

Ah yes, families. Makes you wonder why I even bother with that bitch of a mother of mine. Last night, I was busy doing some CSS with the Clan (Tx¹ – The Xiled Ones), when the mother rings and says:

“Be home early for dinner, and buy some stuff on your way back”

So, I’m like, “Whatever”. 5 hours later – yes I do get engrossed in Clan stuff once I start – *ring*

“Where the hell are you? You were supposed to be home 3 hours ago!”

Oops. So I come home, and get a huge berating for ruining the night because I wasn’t home and I got side-tracked.

She has a fucking nerve saying that – she gets side-tracked and distracted at work a LOT more than I do! Jeez, I get side-tracked one night and she thinks of it as a travesty, yet when she gets side-tracked for 4 nights in a row, it’s no ig fucking deal!

Oh, and enjoy the Baby Bear “family” pic (unfortunately, it’s missing Mommy Bear, Baby Bunny, Polo Bear, and Bobby – I’ll fit them in some other time) .

You couldn’t even go into your front room this morning without smelling the sea of crap left by the Green Army last night….

Puke, piss, bottles, cans, shit – it was all over the streets following the drunken teenagers, adults, and especially the foreign nationals last night. In fact, given how this year’s sea smell was largely different to last years, I’d say 70% of it came from the stupid foreign nationals. But anyways, yes this year did disappoint me with how everyone DID go too far….

It seems St. Patrick’s Day will always be destined to be a day in which the whole fucking world gets stoned as shit and makes us Irish seems like non-stop drunken bastards. WELL WE’RE NOT! SO STOP USING IT AS A FUCKING EXCUSE TO DRINK NON-FUCKING-STOP!

At least our other Green Army representatives did us proud…… Read the rest of this drivel…

This weekend is not really gonna be one I’d like too much – even if it is going to be lucrative (many working hours @ around €8.45 an hour), and celebratory (F1 restarting and national holiday). Well actually, said national holiday is really a major cause of the dread.

It’s always that the rest of the world goes just that little bit too far on Paddy’s day. What I mean is, people feel that because it’s Paddy’s day, they need to drink a shitload more than normal. And all during the day, not just at night. And then they go on about how authentically Irish they are being. Well I’m fucking sick of it. Our national holiday is not a reason for you to go fucking overboard!

I’m just hoping that for one year, just one measly year, we will have a Paddy’s Day without incident ANYWHERE in the world. Read the rest of this drivel…

In today’s really huge mix of stuff:

• How I’m fucked in French
• Poxy Proxies in college
• Xbox Ambassadors and how there aren’t any who speak Irish
• The upcoming weekend and why a big deal means big shit

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I was just casually browsing the Worms leaderboard after checking to see how many people from Ireland had beaten me to the 200 points (3 people to be exact) – when I found out that someone (from the US) had a C&C NOD logo Gamerpic.

Naturally, being a huge Command and Conquer fan myself (see my Xfire games list for proof), I wanted one. But when I go and search the Marketplace for it – I can’t find it.

So, since I had a hunch it was US-only, I go take a look at the Marketplace as H3L TheChrisD – since I created that tag as a US tag, although the console’s locale shows it’s flag as Ireland. Alas, there it is. Read the rest of this drivel…

Aaargh – even worse than the being unable to go to the shop last weekend (which I actually do need to go to as well), is being unable to go to the loo as it is fucked up – thus only the staff can use it.

It doesn’t help when you drink a bottle of Fanta Z earlier in the day though….

So yea, it’s not good when you have to hold it for about 4 hours (closing time) cos the café won’t be empty for a measly 2 minutes! (5 if I’m going to the shop as well…..)

And the worst part is it’s putting me off doing my French project (due Monday!) which really needs to get done, as it was pretty much barely started…… Read the rest of this drivel…

Very effective meaning cheating – yea, I got bored always never getting higher than Rank 3 in Pinball (you know, the one that comes on every single Windows PC – just let Xfire search for it and it’ll find it) – so went looking for fancy cheats.

Seems if you type “hidden test” while playing, you can move the ball around by clicking and dragging it around the table. Needless to say, this means you can have scenarios like this: Read the rest of this drivel…