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Epic sadface post. The White Stripes split yesterday.

The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011, their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.

The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health.

It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way.

http://www.whitestripes.com/

As a big fan of the great one-man-two-man band, you could say I’m pretty gutted by this.

So, apparently it’s a lot easier to create a WordPress theme than I thought. An evening and a half, and we’re well on our way.

While some of the styling and layout is way off what I want, as far as I can tell… functionally, it’s complete and fully usable. So I may as well leave it on. At least it’ll nag me to finish it off.

So, something else significant that I did forget to mention… I’m starting on creating my own theme for the site. Aesthetically, I’m not planning on changing much compared to how it looks at the moment (because I like how it looks at the moment!). This is mainly to give me a bit more control over some things that have nagged at me a while.

It’ll probably be a long way coming, so don’t hold your breath.

Crap, crap, crap. Another month passed and it almost went without so much as a single entry (not including the post that I wrote last year). I’ve had a ton of things I’ve actually wanted to post, but never found the time to actually get on and write it.

Firstly, I’m now starting to settle into my job, which is a good thing as far as my new car fund goes, give it the best part of a year and hopefully I’ll finally be able to get rid of the old bucket I’m currently commuting in!

Photography wise, I’ve not found a great deal of time to indulge in it, but thanks to some great birthday and Christmas gifts, I’ve got the macro set-up I’ve been looking at getting now. I’ve only taken a few practice shots so far and it’s quite a departure from what I’ve done before, but I can definitely see me having fun with it when I finally get round to it.

Another aspect I’ve not really had much time to dedicate myself too either it feels is gaming. My retro collection is still growing, in particular I’ve managed to pick up a handful of SNES titles I’ve wanted copies of; In particular Donkey Kong Country, A Link to the Past and Super Metroid. It’s still relatively small, but it’s got to the point where I’ve finally needed to put some shelves up for them, until now all my retro games have been spread across anywhere they fit, I’m sure there’s still some I’ve still yet to re-locate lost away somewhere.

The only big game I’ve really given the time to recently is Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. I’ll admit, when it launched I fobbed it off a bit as a side step to the second game and thought I’d just wait for Assassin’s Creed 3. How wrong was I? Even though there’s not a great deal more content, and the inclusion of just a single city is pretty disappointing, it definitely drives the story forward and really expands some of the characters. Very glad I decided to pick it up.

The only other significant event that my mind is allowing me to remember is that I’m booked to go on holiday. Any one care to guess where I could be off to?

Happy New year to all!

2010 was a strange year for games (for me), and almost feels like it’s been had backward. There were still a lot of great titles, but I feel that the best of these were out at the start of the year rather than the end, leaving all the anti-climatic half-arsed blockbusters to the period of the calendar that’s usually jam-packed with the titles that I’d usually be writing about here.
Most of the games here, I was done and finished with before summer was over, leaving little to be desired from the end of the year.

Fortunately one genre that has remained consistently good is indie games, and even right up to the end of the year I was finding new gems of lasting enjoyment among them, making picking my favourites a real challenge this time around.

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It seems like the VGA awards are becoming considerably better than E3 for the big announcements. Elder Scrolls 5, Uncharted 3, Arkham City and Mass Effect 3 teasers on the same day?

All day one buys for me. Embeded trailers after the hop.

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Although I’m not sure if a third reboot is needed so soon, I’m looking forward to this immensely.

For the record, the best in the series so far is still tied between Legend and TR2. Long time ago now, but I suspect TR2 would have been the first PS1 game I ever bought!

The next set from the Farnborough Air Show back in July (four months ago… ouch..), this is mostly of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight with a few other bits and pieces thrown in.

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The first of a few sets of the photo’s from the Farnborough Air Show waaay back in August. More after the jump.

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Wow. More than two months without a single post. A new record for me.

Whilst I’ve little excuse for the first month, recently I’ve been pretty busy looking for, and starting a new job. Hopefully, I’ll start to get back into a habit of posting regularly soon.