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It’s a mid-term election year. How do I know this? Because of stupid shit like arguing over burning flags…Thank goodness we have people like Scott Adams who puts this issue into perspective.
I was delighted to learn that American politicians are trying to make it illegal to burn the American flag. That can [...]

I was getting out of the heat the other day and was walking around the local Best Buy (on Almaden Expressway in San Jose). I don’t know why I never noticed this, but the Best Buy over there for some reason thought it necessary to squeeze the Nintendo DS Download Station into the [...]

I picked up a Nintendo DS Lite yesterday with my birthday money. Fun! Now, Eileen and I can play all those Multiplay-Single-Cartridge games together. New Super Mario Bros. was quite entertaining!

It’s about time:  A new Yahoo! Messenger for Mac has finally been released!  It is in beta form, but it is a much welcomed piece of software.  It still doesn’t have all the goodies that the Windows version has, but I am glad that Yahoo! is showing that it has not abandoned the Macintosh platform!  [...]

I am getting a sinking feeling about the PS3.
Bluray will be cool, yes.
But, there was an unforeseen issue with Bluray: Cost of media.
Sony is forcing all publishers to release their games on Bluray media. That’s great and all, except the cost of the media will have to be rolled into price of the [...]

Halo 2, released 2004.  Halo 3, tentative release in 2007.
That’s a long wait for more Halo.
What are Halo fans to do?
Read a comic book, of course!
My Xbox (original) has been packed away in the closet for a while now.  I pulled it out a month ago to play Halo 2 with a cousin.  That was [...]

I saw some article mentioning that the number of foreclosures will probably go up this year.
Now there is evidence that it is going up. And it is going up at a significant rate.
It is scary to think how bad this situation may get, especially out here in California, where not everyone can afford [...]