Essayist's Interference

The PS3 a sinking ship and Nintendo King of the Hill

So, among the many news releases on 1up.com over the past week was the following story on CNN: Sony’s PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet In a nutshell, it’s branding the Playstation 3 a flop because, after two years, it hasn’t been able to overtake the three-year-old Xbox 360 and hasn’t been able touch the…

December 18, 2008
The Sounds of Christmas… or not…

It’s been a stretch since my last entry. Purely unintentional, I’ve actually been working on something in the Drafts section and it’s gotten to be rather long. It started out as a dissection of where the TV show Heroes went wrong (and trust me, they did) and wound up evolving into a long essay on the…

November 26, 2008
The Clone Wars Cometh…

And now for something different… We’re three weeks into the broadcast of the new Star Wars animated series on Cartoon Network, The Clone Wars. As most people are already aware, this builds directly upon the August theatrical release of the same name (seeing as how that was basically the original first four episodes of the series…

October 19, 2008
Rediscovering Web Design

It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Setting up this blog naturally made me want to customize it, but Word Press is virtually 100% CSS and PHP, two languages I’ve unfortunately never taken the time to learn. Now, PHP has been on my “to-do” list for nearly ten years along with MySQL. It’s one of…

October 18, 2008
Wii Fit

Well, I figure a good way to break this thing in is to just opine about the latest video game I bought (beats ignoring it until I have all the style choices exactly the way I want them). So, what is that latest game, you might ask? Why, none other than Wii Fit. Wii Fit…

October 12, 2008