When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and LoooOOOoooove will steer the stars ... Oh, we're not watching Hair?

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president, Andrew House had an interesting choice of words when asked in an interview at E3, about a possible price drop for the Playstation 3.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to look for a copy of Hair on Blu-Ray so I can enjoy it in Full HD on my Playstation 3.

Read the full interview here: House-Proud

Sony stands firm on 'no PS3 price cut' policy via 1Up, via Kotaku.

I'm not going to pretend to know what Gundam is, but my spidey senses tell me, this is something it should NOT be:

It appears Hello Kitty and Optimus Prime may have had an unfortunate accident one night and 9 months later we were blessed with their hideous illegitimate child.

Gigazine via ForeverGeek, via Technabob.

What happens when you ask the writers of the hit show Robot Chicken to brainstorm ideas for missions in the upcoming Spore expansion, Galactic Adventures? Toilet humour and lots of it! Let's face it, who doesn't love toilet humour?

Fans of the show will be familiar with Robot Chicken's format of short stop-motion sketches made with toys, collectibles, dolls and figurines sometimes from the crew's own personal collection. If your mint condition Star Wars figurines outnumber the pairs of socks that you own or the number of friends you have on Facebook and you've not yet seen any of Robot Chicken, you owe it to yourself to get your Dorito covered hands on a copy and find out what you've been missing.

Luke Plunkett of Kotaku sat down with Tom Root, one of the producers on the show to find out more about their time at Maxis.

Aww, not the needler! Who can't see the fun in pumping an enemy full of pink alien glass that explodes? Personally, I could never get the hang of using the weapon effectively, certainly not as well as the enemy could apparently wield it against me anyway.

When asked how he found the experience, when compared to writing for Robot Chicken, Tom had this to say:

Read the rest of the interview here.

Kotaku: When Robot Chicken Meets Video Games

The Federal Government's dreams to filter the Internet in order make it "suitable" for everyone and alienate those who like to think for themselves appear to have become even more of a nightmare. This time targeting gamers. Information from a spokesman for Senator Conroy states that the filtering plan will include websites that sell banned or unrated video games, including both physical and downloadable distribution methods.

This information has drawn attention once again to the need to include an R18+ classification for video games in Australia. Ron Curry, the chief executive of the IEAA, has described it accurately as an "unacceptable situation". He goes on to suggest "It's through the introduction of an R18+ classification that adults will have access to age appropriate material and parents will have the full tool kit to understand the suitability of content for their children."

Surely this can only lead to an increase in piracy. Adult gamers, capable of making their own decisions, decide to seek out the content they want to access through the only means available despite any legal ramifications. See what you're going Conroy? Turning us all in to criminals!

Web Filters To Censor Video Games, via games.on.net.

Everyone, on some level owes thanks to The Beatles. Whether you love their music, or your favourite musician was inspired to pick up a guitar after listening to their songs, we all have reasons to thank them. Soon, we'll have one more. The Beatles: Rock Band, the first digital incarnation of any part of the ever impressive Beatles catalogue.

We're just a few short months away from the release date for this title and I for one will be playing it for eight days a week. September 9th will be a good day, sunshine. Until then, you'll find me down Penny Lane, in the Octopus' Garden with Eleanor Rigby playing with Maxwell's Silver Hammer ... Ok, no more song title puns, I promise.

Kyle Orland of Crispy Gamer scored some time with Chris Foster to have a chat about the game.

The obvious place to start is how this game will set itself apart from other Rock Band games. While we're awaiting the announcement of Rock Band:10 or GH:2k10, why should we buy this title? Apart from the obvious track listing, what's going to be new in this installment?

I'm not sure about your Rock Band buddies, but mine can't hold a tune, let alone harmonise. Here's hoping the game will be able to tell that we're all trying REALLY hard and give us points for effort.

How about that track list and the tracks available for download?

Hit the link for the full interview.

You Say You Want a Revolution: Chris Foster on The Beatles: Rock Band via Kotaku, via Go Nintendo.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing!!

Why yes, I am. Just don't tell anyone!

So last night I made creamy garlic prawn pasta ... it was AMAZING! Remember that show? Amazing, where they ran around the maze collecting keys and stuff?

Here it is:

Recorded really badly with a video camera in front of a TV haha. That show was freakin awesome, they should bring it back.

Uh, anyway, back to the recipe:
- 1 package of John West Garlic Prawns from your local supermarket (these are fresh, not frozen and they're delicious!)
- 200mls of cream
- Spaghetti

Chuck on the spaghetti according to the instructions, chuck the prawns in a deepish fry pan, cook till coloured through. Then pour in the cream, mix it in, add some salt and cook while the pasta finishes off. Once the pasta is done, chuck it in the fry pan, sans water and mix it round. SERVE UP AND DINE MOTHER FUCKA!!

2 days left before The Sims 3 comes out, I'm sooooooooo excited. In fact right now is a pretty damn exciting time in the world of video games. E3 is on. Hell of a lot of new game announcements, not least of which are the following games I'm looking forward to:
Lego Harry Potter Years 1 - 4
The Beatles Rockband
anything Halo
HALO SPECIAL EDITION XBOX CONTROLLER (so glad I didn't buy the one I was going to the other day).

DO WANT!:

Also, I bought one of these:

.... well I redeemed points for it for doing surveys ... IT COMES WITH KNIVES!

These ones:

How cool am I? SUPER COOL!

I also bought one of these:

I've been thinking about getting one the whole time I've had an xbox and I'm finally getting one!!

And one of these:

Second controller for PS3 FTW! Although now Im gonna have to get some multiplayer games.

So yeah, all up, that cost me about $50, not bad for just doing surveys online huh?

I SHALL HAVE IT IN TWO WEEKS!!! Im friggin excited. Almost debating taking some time off work, but it's too late to request it now. Ah well.

I've been playing a bunch of Roller CoasterTtycoon 3 also which is fun. Although for a while there it kept crashing on me, so I would lose my progress. ANNOYING. I've cranked down the video settings now and it seems to be running just fine.

CAN'T WAIT!! LONGEST TWO WEEKS EVAR!

Do not drink that new Pepsi energy drink, it's disgusting.

Thanks for listening.

This time tomorrow I'll be in Sydney =OD

Cereal, followed by toast and finally Doritos ... fuck yeah.

I got up at 6 am this morning so that I can try and get to bed early tonight and get up early tomorrow morning to get to bed early tomorrow night and then get up AT THE BUTT CRACK OF DAWN TO GET ON A PLANE TO SYDNEY. I'm gonna have to get up at about 4:15 =O(

If you happen to have tried to drop by in the last week or so, you may have noticed that the nudity of MedusA has been unavailable. I've had to reinstall Windows and for what ever reason, I decided to go with Windows 7. Perhaps it's because I am a glutton for punishment ... Anyway! It's taken me a few days to get things back in order, not the least of which is the blog. I have pretty much, just this minute figured out that windows freakin firewall was on and was blocking incoming traffic.

For those poor souls who've stumbled upon this post searching for answers as to why their apache server wont work on Windows 7 .... TURN OFF WINDOWS FIREWALL! Or at least edit it to allow the appropriate traffic like I did.

To be helpful, here's some phrases I may have googled trying to find the answer:
Web Server Windows 7
Apache Virtual Hosts Windows 7
Apache Windows 7
Movable Type Windows 7
Http Requests Windows 7

I've you've come here in search of answers, I've probably got them, feel free to leave me a comment if ya like asking for help, because I'm just that nice.

Oh hell yes! So i won tickets to a mystery screening last night, I had my suspicions about what movie it was going to be and it turns out, one of my guesses was right STAR MOTHER FUCKING TREK. Now, I'm not a Star Trek nerd, many other kinds of nerd yes, but Star Trek, no. I actually had a vendetta against it, having seen only snippets of the shows and the last movie that came out, Insurrection. After last night? No more! I am a convert, but don't you dare call me a Trekkie, or I will stab you.

This movie has it all, the love story, comedy, explosions, science, fiction, cool vehicles, EVERYTHING! We met some cool guys in the line, one of them had a large hole in his ear lobe, I wanted to stick my finger in it and lick his face. I resisted the urge. We had to leave our phones outside and we were told by the man in the suit that they take piracy very seriously, I wanted to yell out "me too! I got that shit comin in right now!". Until the movie started playing, we had no idea what it was and this guy ended his little spiel by saying "now please enjoy ... the following movie." We all secretly wanted to stab him.

Vicki ended up sitting next to some random bimbo who she dubbed "plastic". This brought about many hilarious whisperings "plastic is not impressed with the movie choice" and "ah, an action scene and plastic is checking her watch". Despite the epic make up, Vicki and I managed to recognise just about everyone in the movie, Winona, Eric, Simon and Deep Roy. Deep Roy plays Scotty's little buddy and when you see the movie, you'll go "HOW THE FUCK COULD ANY ONE RECOGNISE DEEP ROY UNDER THAT MAKEUP". I thought it was just a kid, but no, I was wrong.

When the movie was over, Vicki started clapping quietly, so I ramped it up and clapped the fuck out of that mother. All in all, the applause was lack lustre, a very poor effort for a freakin sweet movie. I'm looking forward to seeing it again ... for free AGAIN!

Of the Sims 3!! I'm damn excited, I went and preordered the collectors edition yesterday with the birthday moneys, roll on June 4.

So given that I enjoy the Sims so much, do I have a god complex? It's good fun messing with the sims, I plan shortly on having a party wherein I have a pool, everyone gets in and I take the ladder away. YAY! DEATH!! I played for a few hours last night and just about forgot to go to bed, it's so addictive! Right now I'm playing with a Sim in college. I'm going to try and max out the achievements on this Sim and I might do the money cheat and buy EVERYTHING YOU CAN BUY and build a massive house. I might make this sim gay as well ... OH THE POSSIBILITIES!

I have most of the expansion packs installed, except for the stuff ones, which I spose I should get if I'm going to buy everything you can buy.

Yeah, I bought one. Got it on the cheap from work. It so far appears to be ... THE MOTHER FUCKING WIN! I didn't think I'd find it all that useful given that I don't watch a hell of a lot of TV on TV. I went through the program guide and subscribed to a whole bunch of season passes and it does all the hard work for me, all I do is check in once a day and watch what it's recorded.

The best bit? Fast forwarding The Bass on So You Think You Can Dance. I swear, if she wins the Gold Logie, I will stab someone.

Back to work tomorrow after a weekend I'm going to pretend didn't happen.

Next year: no birthday!

So it's 2 days till my 23rd birthday, I feel old. Again, it's been too long since I posted an update. You may find that none of the other sections of the site work now apart from the blog, that's intentional ... somewhat. I just haven't finished organising things since I moved everything to my computer from the web server. They might be back eventually, they also might not.

I've switched to Rage already, the second song was Britney Spears, blurgh.

Or is flickr fucked up for everyone? It doesn't seem to load any images, not on my website and not on flickr.com either. Oh well, we'll wait and see if it straightens out.

P.S. Im about to watch Video Hits for the first time in years. I'm a little scared.

So, apparently, I didn't post at all in March. It's now April and it's too late!

I actually did post in March, but my webhost's server crashed the fuck out and lost the post. Well done to them. So this post is going straight on to my computer at home and marks the first of the posts since I setup the webserver at home. I really don't need 100% up time from my website, so I can do without the $20 a month I pay.

Everything should be seamless, except for when my computer or connection arent working, hehe. We'll see how this goes!

INITIATE CHANGE!

Here's an update on my plans for my time on leave:

1. Sleep - yep
2. Watch the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings from start to finish in one sitting - Not yet, maybe tomorow
3. Go to the dentist - yep
4. Get down lights installed - yep, got this done today ... well one anyway and new lights in the kitchen
5. Clean up the yard - a bit
6. Sleep - yep
7. Clean up the house - yep
8. Plant some vegetables out the back (maybe) - nah
9. Go to the beach! - yep, went to rapid bay on Sunday, it was cool, saw a sting ray, freaked out
10. Spend as little money as possible - yeah, I'm doing ok on this one
11. Go to Melbourne to the aquaqrium! - YUP! Photos are here.
12. Sort out the shit I want to sell on eBay. - nope
13. Sell aforementioned shit on eBay. - nope
14. Sleep - yup
15. Beach! - yup
16. Have my cousins round for drinks (this will need to happen after points 5 and 7) - oh crap, I forgot about this
17. Start hosting my web site on my machine at home - havent bothered yet
18. Watch Ab Fab from start to finish - Not yet
19. Organise all my DVDs and catalogue them some how, possibly with delicious library or what ever it's called. - I've done the bought ones
20. Sleep - yup
21. Eat Noodles and cereal - I had some cereal this morning
22. Relax - yup
23. Sleep - yup
24. Write a Book ... ok, not really, I'd never get all the way through writing a book in a month. - hahaha, as if I got this motivated

So there ya have it, I achieved most of what I wanted to with only a few items left to go. I did cover the most important items though, all of those listed as sleep.

I lost track of what day it was, freaked me out when I looked at my clock today and saw it was Friday. I've been on leave for a whole week now and I've done ... well not a lot.

I've continued watching so you think you can dance and as expected, they continued to pull music from Triple J's Hottest 100. There are lots of dancers who scare me ... LOTS. How ever, no one scares me quite as much as The Bass. I did how ever like the moment between her and a n OVERLY gay dancer where she didn't quite get that he was giving her shit, it was the best. I think what I find most scary is the sob stories, there was this one girl who was having a whinge because she weighed nearly 90 kgs when she was 17 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Boo frickety hoo!

Also, I think I've picked the winner already, just now. His name is Omar and he lived on the street for a few years. My money is on him.

So today, we got our collective asses in to gear and headed on down to the beach with a detour past the tackle shop to pick up some extra gear and got our snorkel on. It was awesome, I was surrounded by fish, they were schooling around me and we saw a star fish and a giant sponge thing that was like a billion tiny squishy dicks.

Then there was a fight, it was a bunch of year 7s or 8s or something, one kid got his face smashed up by another and then someone called the cops and the kids went out on to the jetty, real smart, get yourself in to a position with ONE exit. So we swam around for a few hours, it was nice. Now we're planning on taking a trip to rapid bay where apparently we might be able to see leafy sea dragons. I need to get a new mask though because the one I was using today leaks pretty much constantly and I had to keep purging.

I'd love to take some underwater photos, but that's not going to happen.

kirsco @thegrates: Thanks Patience, for the napkins under the hat idea at the Adelaide BDO last week, it worked a treat! You guys were amazing!

thegrates @kirsco haha! She's full of helpful household hints!

Good old twitter, bringing cool people to other cool people.

I have no other words for this:

Now, about the music they used in most of the show ... did they just go to the Triple J hot 100 and pick every second song and whack it in? Because that's what it seemed like to me. I'm just about to watch the second episode now, let's see if it's the same.

As a final note in this first episode, how is wasted by Angus and Julia Stone an appropriate song for a brother and sister dance team whose parents just want them to study. They let one through and not the other. Well done retards.

Oh god it was so hot!! I had the best time, we pretty much spent the whole day wet, we slathered ourselves in sunscreen and managed to stave off sunburn and heat stroke. People fainted, people moshed and people drank .. IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!! We saw The Grates early on, they were so freakin good and we were about 3 people from the front, patience was dressed as a toy soldier and man does she have s bunch of energy. She's a hilarious dancer, it was totally worth the 140 for the ticket just to see the grates.

Here's a picture of me and Adam in the mosh for the Grates just before it started:

Don't you just love my hat? It wasn't until later that I realised I'd been wearing a hat with flowers on it! Oh well, it stopped me from getting burnt on my head so that's all I care about!

Here's a shot of the crowd for Pendulum:

And here's Adam just before I dunked him:

Afterwards we went to the beach at midnight, it was awesome! After being so wet and dirty all day it was refreshing to get in the ocean. Also, I went the whole day without peeing! Hooray for sweat vs liquid intake!

Now, on the topic of music, here are my two favourite songs for this year:

I particularly like Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine, it was on the radio as I was leaving work on Thursday arvo. I'm not going back till March =OD

So yesterday was the last post from the blog that wasn't.

Here's a youtube video for a song I heard on Triple J the other day that I haven't heard in ages:

Today is my last day at work before I go on leave, I've got lots of work to finish off, it's fail.

gizmodo.com.au/wiimotes_bundled_with_free_slippers_for_resourceful_japanese_children

Go read that article, laugh, then come back and read this:

Thank god it's Fri ... oh wait, it's not
March 20, 2008 9:52 PM
I know it's easter and everyone's excited, but some of us have to work over the long weekend, so shut the fuck up.

Today felt like Friday in so many ways. We had a bit of a "going away"for our team leader today because he's leaving us for another department. We all got together in a meeting room and drank some beer, one of our favourite pass times. Beer seems to bring us all together. We laughed about some of the things that happened at our Christmas dinner and made fun of those who made themselves look stupid on that day.

The city was incredibly busy, with people getting in some last minute shopping before EVERYTHING CLOSES FOR GOOD FRIDAY. The fact that you can't buy alcohol on Good Friday is fucking bull shit. Fuck Jesus and what ever he did on this day, I want some damn beer! Anyone being prevented from buying beer on a long weekend deserves a hug, thus, I demand you all hug me at once ... with beer.

Today also felt like Friday because of the way that I rescheduled work. Generally we have trouble contacting people on weekends, more so on long weekends. Tuesday is going to be very busy indeed. There was an aura about the people in town that felt very much like a Friday, very relaxed and yet rushing around at the same time.

Lastly, everyone should look at this Photo Set* because it is le amazing. Enjoy and have a safe Easter with much chocolate eating, after all, it's the reason for the season.

*Photo set is gone, unsure what photo set it was.

Don't wear a Gstring to the beach. Don't ask me how I know that, just don't do it.

So to change the subject:

Wrong Town
March 19, 2008 9:29 PM
I'm not sure how man of you are aware of this, but I'm here today to tell you that in Canada, people buy their milk in bags. Those bags then go in a milk jug where the corner is chopped off so as to make a spout. I know, I was scared too when I found out about this. I found this video on youtube giving a demonstration:

I take no responsibility for anyone who has a nightmare as a result of this video.