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Articles posted in May 2006.

State of video games

May 23rd, 2006

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, was held a couple of weeks ago. What was presented this year shows how serious the gaming industry has become.
The media coverage itself was pretty impressive. Gaming news websites had extensive content. The G4 cable channel turned into all E3 channel all week long with correspondents everywhere on the […]

Quick Review: First HD-DVD player

May 15th, 2006

The first HD DVD player, the Toshiba HD-A1, is now more widely available and we just got ours last week. We ended up getting a defective unit initially, so things didn’t look so good initially. We replaced it a couple days later though I was pleasantly surprised.
If you’ve seen any initial reviews, you would know […]

I’m a Mac. Pay attention to me.

May 5th, 2006

Oh come on, these new Mac ads are ridiculous…

Viruses - This is the only commercial I saw on TV last week. A few days ago, I heard this podcast which makes the timing of these both the only funny thing about the commercial.
Restarting - I can’t remember the last time I had to restart my […]