Archive for December, 2004

Xbox Eve

Friday, December 24th, 2004

I got my Xbox today, it’s a black one, it came with Halo, Midtown Madness 3 & Rainbow Six 3. It’s pretty cool. I still think it’s too big but it does have two distinct advantages over the PS2; four controller ports on the console and a built in hard drive. The […]

Running on Empty

Friday, December 24th, 2004

I worked the night shift last night. I was supposed to work from 10:00pm Thursday until 6:30am this morning. To prepare for this I went to bed at about half past two on Wednesday and intended to get up around lunchtime. Unfortunately I woke up at 9am on Thursday and couldn’t get […]

New Mobile

Monday, December 13th, 2004

Having come to the end of my contract with Orange I wanted to renew it with a different contract and a Nokia 6230*. Unfortunately Orange told me that the contract I wanted was only available to new customers as an introductory offer. I rang them today to tell them that I would be […]

Keep ‘em coming

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

My Brother gave me a free months trial of lovefilm.com which means I can have rent as many films as I want in the next 30 days. I can have three at a time and keep them as long as I want. After my first trawl through their available films I had 36 […]

Panic Buying

Saturday, December 4th, 2004

Last week we had about 90 Slimline PS2’s in. About half of them were already preordered the rest sold out in under an hour. I’ve lost track of how many customers I’ve turned away that wanted them. I’ve just had a quick look around on the web and nowhere has them; Amazon, […]