Shawn's Blog

a hair-band lovin', techni-junkie's banter about… whatever.

Next-Gen Gaming?!

With all the hype about “Next-Gen” gaming lately, it’s been basically a question of whether “Next-Gen” is Graphics (Xbox 360, PS3), or Gameplay (Wii).  Well, my vote has got to go for Game play.   While I don’t have a Wii, I am very interested in getting one…. and, well… with games like this, the Wii [...]

Microsoft to replace dead 360′s for free

Good news for XBOX 360 owners: When the Xbox 360 first hit the market, reports swirled that the console was suffering an alarmingly high hardware failure rate. In response, Microsoft executives called for calm, saying a small percentage of all new electronic products are defective that the 360 was no exception. Purchasers suffering hardware failure–most [...]

Music Recommendations

I’ve been listening to “Octane” on Sirius Radio lately, and have been hearing a song that kept getting my attention. It’s been a long time since I’ve been interested in new artists. To put this in perspective, I used to buy upwards of 10 CD’s a month in 1999 to about 1-2 CD’s a year [...]

Consumer Report on Virus Scanners

A link to a report on Virus software was passed on on a message board that I frequent.  The short of it is that Consumer Reports (CR) hired people to design 5,500 new viruses to see how well anti-virus software could handle new viruses which antivirus companies have not programmed their software for.  In the [...]

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