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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
I’m not going to make a New Year’s Resolution this year. Last year, for the first time, I made one. I didn’t even come close to following it through. While I exceeded my expectations in other areas, the one I had promised myself to improve on was left hanging and has pretty much diminished. And as such, I broke a New Year’s tradition this year. Instead of going over to a friend’s – who has hosted a radass New Year’s Eve party for the past 5 or 6 years, Deanna and I went and saw King Kong. We’ll ring in the new year with our daughter Hannah at the stroke of midnight while sipping on our drinks of choice – a cool Keith’s for this guy and Spumante Bambino for my lady. Sounds good to me!
It’s been quite a year. On the family front, we sorted out everything we needed to in regards to our daughter and Deanna’s ex. All the paper work is done and things are great. We received the official government document verifying Hannah’s name change on December 23, which was by far the best Christmas present we could have asked for. She’s now an official Brett! When they moved here from BC nearly 4 years ago, we all had last names. Deanna used to call us a mutt family. Hah!
Sunday, August 14th, 2005
When I left off, I still had some significant PC hardware to pick up. I’ve since upgraded to a 520 W PSU and a P4 3.2 GHZ processor. Battlefield 2 is running pretty smooth now. I could still use some more ram, but that’ll come in time. I love getting new hardware because it always gets me playing games I haven’t touched in months. Going back to Far Cry with all the details maxed is like an entirely new experience. Considering I didn’t even finish it my first time around as it start…
Thursday, July 21st, 2005
I’m at the end of my second week with Participatory Culture Foundation and so far, it’s been great and I’m really enjoying the change. I made sure to come up with a schedule for myself to keep organized and on task. It really hasn’t been hard to adjust to working from home. PCF are pretty flexible with hours, and I’ve been taking advantage of the situation by swimming on my lunch break just about every day. Considering that only three weeks ago, I hadn’t been swimming in over two years – that’s quite the…
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
Remember this? It’s been just over two weeks and every aspect of my ‘professional life’ has changed. On Wednesday, June 29 I accepted a job offer to act as Site Manager for Participatory Culture Foundation. PCF was founded by the dudes behind Downhill Battle. Between DHB and their current focus – an opensource internet tv platform, I must say, I’m pretty stoked to be a part of the team! Imagine – spending my days working on projects that I can stand behind and be proud of. Amazing!
This coming week is my last…
Sunday, June 26th, 2005
It’s been a slow month around these parts. Mainly do the madness that is the MMVAs. I’ve had a hard time keeping motivated as it seemed like the day job was sucking every last drop of life out of me. But that’s over and done with for another year, so it’s time to get back on track!
Over the past month, I’ve been trying to sway myself away from PC gaming. I’ve gone over the pros and cons of both PC gaming and console gaming and on many levels, console gaming is the better…
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Man, am I ever [fucking] drained! The past few weeks have been so busy and there’s been so much going on in all aspects of my life, that I feel that I just can’t keep up, but I have to keep plugging away. Not because I want to – I would definitely love to just drop everything for a couple weeks and do nothing but hang out with the family and play video games. Starting Thursday, June 30 at 8pm right through until Monday, June 18 – that’s exactly what I’ll going to be doing.…
Monday, November 15th, 2004
It started off good, with the release of Halo 2 and watching destory the first day sales record for the entertainment industry. And Firefox 1.0 finally making it’s world-wide debut. Then somewhere, it all went down hill…
Employees readying class-action lawsuit against EA
‘The Screen Savers’ is dead
Authorities Seek Cause of O.D.B.’s Death
Today, a headline on Fark caught my eye. ‘Xbox + Halo 2 + Mod Chip = Xbox Live Bannination’ which linked to this article. Well, I guess that’s the deciding factor in the ‘to mod my…
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
Alright, no one told me this being married thing would make my life ÃÃâ€Â â€â„¢Ãƒƒƒâ€Å¡Ãƒƒâہ¡ÃƒÆ’‚¯ÃƒƒÃ†’âââہ¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÆ’…¡Ãƒƒâ€Å¡Ãƒƒâہ¡ÃƒÆ’‚¿ÃƒƒÃ†’âââہ¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÆ’…¡Ãƒƒâ€Å¡Ãƒƒâہ¡ÃƒÆ’‚½ber hectic! I probably shouldn’t be complaining, though. Being busy means I have lots of work. Which = money. Which results in happy Matt. So it all works out in the end. Just seems that it all started shortly before our wedding day, and there’s no sign of slowing down in the near future.
Speaking of ‘work’. Media Press has been doing great lately. I’ve been focusing on creating standards compliant sites and it’s totally paid off, in a very short time.…
