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ACTA – What does the act mean to Canadian law?

Micheal Geist’s latest column on the ACTA treaty has been posted.  Every Canadian should look over the coverage of the ACTA treaty that Michael has put together.
Learn what your and other governments are negotiating in secret!  Big Media lobbyists are pushing to change your rights to digital media, technology and the internet using this binding [...]

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Coming Soon: Honest Reviews

I have had a plan to do video game and tech reviews for a while.  So, coming this week I will start doing some honest reviews of video games and tech and the like.
After gamestopgate and hearing about sites and editors getting directly or indirectly paid for positive reviews and seeing the obvious bias that [...]

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New theme.

I finally got my new theme working the way I like it (mostly).
It is based on a free GPL theme called ThrillingTheme.

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Never buy a used XBOX 360

Never buy a used XBOX 360

Just in case everyone already didn’t know, buying a used XBOX 360 console is a terrible idea.  Older 360s have hardware problems, particularly with the ‘red ring of death‘ and overheating issues that may not be apparent at first.  Also, due to Micorsoft banning huge numbers of 360s that were modified to play pirated games [...]

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DNS change. MadeOfFailAndLose.

The blog is now back up and running. I guess it went down at some point yesterday when an upstream ISP split nodes. I have updated the DNS and we are no longer full of fail.

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Learn2Boycott noobs!!

Learn2Boycott noobs!!

Because gamers can’t not have the latest shiny thing, even if it is bad for them and the publisher is ripping them off, they have made Modern Warfare 2 one of the best launches in history and allowed that asshole Bobby Kotick to cash in 20 million in stock options.
The man at the helm of [...]

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Infinity Ward, you broke my heart

Infinity Ward, you broke my heart

You might have heard, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward has shafted us PC gamers quite deeply with its release of the game.
There was some nerd rage, and talk of boycotts, but all I see on Steam and Twitter are people playing the damn game. Which doesn’t surprise me.

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All I want for Christmas…

All I want for Christmas…

Five years ago, the makers of the popular web comic Penny Arcade created the Child’s Play charity partly in response to the constant flow of news articles portraying gamers in a negative light and partly to do some good in the world with their internet celebrity status.
Since then Child’s Play has since contributed over $5 [...]

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Aion Was Good. NCSoft Is Crap. Captchas Are Retarded.

Aion Was Good. NCSoft Is Crap. Captchas Are Retarded.

I haven’t played Aion in weeks, and have not missed it at all.  After the latest patch notes for the upcoming version 1.5 I am certain that I will not play anymore and will be cancelling my account.

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