Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Halo 3: Finish the fight

Hmm, I don’t know how weird this is but:

This time last night I was coming home from Halo 3 launch party (was good although no RDA) and HMV with my copy. I have just finished single player now.

I’ve also hit exactly 2000 gamerpoints finishing Halo.

I don’t have much at the moment, but I was a little underwhelmed by the ending of the game. Does anyone see it pretty much as Halo 1 with slightly prettier graphics and more peril? The ending was a straight rip off though, a long drive to the exit while being surrounded by impossible jumps and explosions.

While I haven’t been counting I did feel Halo 3 was a lot shorter then the other two games and its not like I’ve been playing straight through since last night, an hour or two every once in a while and I’m already done.

Sure you could say I haven’t unlocked it on every level and so on on on, but thats not me, generally when I play through a game I only want to do it once. I don’t feel the need to stroke my e-penis by having a game entirely completed.

Yeah yeah I know its all about multiplayer, I don’t ever want to know the total amount of hours (years?) people have played Halo 2 but I’m not one for sticking to multiplayer for any length of time. Hmm I don’t know. It’s a good game but does it deserve all the hype? I just don’t know.

Pulp Fiction

Jason sent me a link to this a few days ago and I have to say I am so blown away by how cool this clip is. It is Pulp Fiction in Typography and my god, it’s so damn awesome.

I’m also working on draft post about DemoBar/PaddysValley/OpenCoffee too. Needless to say, it was awesome.

Back to Vodafone

Originally I got my mobile from Vodafone, but unhappy with their policy on credit expiring after 30 days (I always lost lots of credit that way) I switched over to O2. After they fumbled the switchover I should of seen the signs. Although I did manage to get the best part of 120 euros worth of free credit from them because of it

Over the last few days, I’ve become fed up since I’ve started using my phone more and more. Sitting down remaining still talk to someone, only for the call to disconnect. People on Vodafone would tell me when they dial me, they hear out of service and so on. I wouldn’t receive calls at all at times. So adios O2. I’ve switched back to Vodafone (Also take a hint O2, their sim switchover pack is free.)

SAGE-IE September Talk

Yesterday I stepped inside Google’s EU headquarters for a SAGE-IE meeting that David Malone was giving on “Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins”

A very good talk considering I’m now at the stage where I’m going to be sending out CV’s for applying for jobs in the whole networking/sysadmin area. I was pleasantly surprised to find I could answer some of the questions in a decent level of detail (considering my experience) while I could give partial answers (Who knew if UDP was being filtered you can send an ICMP unreachable response back, always believed it was a fire and forget protocol, which it is to an extent) to others.

The only one I found myself stumped at was printing in linux/unix because I’ve never used linux/unix before on the desktop long enough to actually set up printing. At the moment this is my current mindset

Servers = Linux/Unix

Desktops = Windows

Before I anger someone, this is my personal view and each to their own.