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I have been positively blah today, feeling unmotivated to do anything, not even this post. It is 7PM now, and maybe my second wind is kicking in, so I thought I would give penning a short entry a try. I am working from the Samsung Q1 tonight, with Windows Media player blaring Bon Jovi’s Blood on Blood as my background working noise. I’ll actually be going on vacation this week, albeit a working one.

Follow up:

Below is the loadout kit for this trip:

Laptops: Gateway P-6860FX 17” Gaming Laptop
Acer Aspire ONE Netbook
PVP: iPhone
Thumb Drives: Lexar 128MB
SanDisk CRUZ Drive 2GB (website files)
Headphones: Memorex Noise Canceling Headphones
Movies: Encoded Video’s (Erik’s MP4 File Archive on the
Gateway; I’ll also transfer some files to the
Aspire ONE from my NAS)
DAP: iPod Nano
Primary Cell Phone: AT&T Tilt
Equipment Bag: booq Boa Case
Games: PainKiller! and No One Lives Forever 2

I have some other pieces of gear that I have to take since I will be working remotely, but I won’t be using those for projects and play.

One of the guys from IT came over on Saturday for the first LAN event at my place since maybe 2006. We used the Main and Backup Towers and both performed well. Games in play were Unreal Tournament (Original) and Ghost Recon. I really have not played much Ghost Recon multiplayer, and hardly any on my LAN. From the experience we had, that title, despite its age, should be a blast if we can get four people over here running through Enemy Elimination Co-op.

I downloaded the New Xbox Experience update for the 360’s Dashboard. It looks pretty sharp. While it is not a feature rich radical departure from the original Dashboard’s functionality, a lot of the interfaces have been slipstreamed so that they are more efficient in the presentation of data. I particularly like the fact that now when you press the X-button, instead of getting the Dashboard flyover from the left as a slice, you get a simple box in the middle of your screen. Avatars are a curiosity, not much more, but I still made one (since I figured everyone else would). All in all, regardless of whether or not the new GUI is a bit of goofiness designed to make casual gamers feel less overwhelmed by the interface, the fact is that the new GUI gives the 360 a new feel, as if you have just bought a new console and are using it for the first few times.

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