I've decided I'm going to give the Halo 3 multiplayer another shot. I am quite excited about ODST and I want to be half way decent by the time it comes out. I learned tonight this is going to take considerable practice.
 
The biggest problem is I don't know any of the maps. So I'm going to be playing as much as I can fit in over the next week.I will try to play at least one map a day and practice my aim. 
 
There are a few reasons I am going to back to play Halo 3:
 
1) Biggest community online for 360. Granted some of these people are screaming youngins but that is what all mute is for. 
2) ODST got me excited for Halo again. Also made me want to watch firefly, which I will be doing shortly. 
3) Bungie makes great maps. They are interesting and varied. Mostly, they actually seem quite balanced. 
4) Its just fun to play the game even though half the time my face is getting owned.
 
If any experienced Halo 3 players have any tips please share :). Or if anyone else wants to jump back onto the Halo 3 MP send me a PM! (Believe me when I say I need lots of practice though so don't expect me to be any good)

I prefer downloadable games.  Reason being? I find it way easier to have digital copies. 
 
I used to have all my PC games ripped and ready to go at a moments notice. With steam I don't have a drive full of ISO's with RAID. Makes my life easier.

I'm going to focus on a few things:

1) Friends and Family
2) Physical Activities (Training for a half marathon)
3) Video games
4) Working :(

and a possible 5) Looking for property to purchase.

I just finished doing a quick look at the Opera browser service called Unite. I have to say I came away pretty impressed with what I say in my time messing around with it. What is Opera Unite though?

What it is:
Opera Unite is a web service built into the Opera browser that COULD replace the following: Facebook, Flickr, any sort of blogging service. How would it do this?

It can replace these things by giving you the option to turn your PC into a media hosting, file sharing, website hosting device in a few clicks.

The Features:

File Sharing: Select a folder you want to share on the internet. Then select the level of privacy and click start service and your files are online and accessible from anywhere if you have your opera browser running.

Fridge: kind of an odd feature I think. Essentially lets you leave sticky notes for users of the computer. I can't see the practical application of this quite yet.

Media Player: Point this at your media files and you will have access to your media from any machine in the world. Again, set the privacy settings and click start service and your files are out there.

Photo Sharing: Same deal as the other services except geared towards photos.

The lounge: IRC but hosted on your machine

Web Server: Host your own web page here. I haven't done extensive testing with this yet. I know it supports HTML but I do not know about CSS or any sort of server side scripting. I would guess that it does support CSS but probably not PHP or ASP.NET or anything like that. Phython and Ruby on Rails are a possiblity.

You can get it here: http://unite.opera.com/

I would like to note I have not had much time with these services just yet. These are all just first impressions which are pretty positive. This may completely turn out to be a dud.

I think that is what this boils down to, if this is a giant, sadistic marketing ploy or not.

Also this could BECOME a giant marketing ploy if another publisher picks it up.

Does this all really warrant a blog post?

I am a gamer and I have a backlog of games to get through.

There I finally admitted it. And now that I have done that it makes me want to go back and finish these games in my backlog. I am going to be realistic about this.

I am only going to finish the games that I find fun and just stopped playing because I got distracted by a shiny new game. I am also going to limit myself to this generation of games, with 2 exceptions.

Games I resolve to finish:

• Dead Space (PS3)
• Little Big Planet (PS3)
• The Orange Box (Ep 2 still needs to be completed, finished everything else) (Xbox 360)
  
• Crysis (PC)
• World in Conflict and World in Conflict Soviet Assault (PC)
  
• Dawn of War II (PC)
  
• Fallout (Exception 1) (PC)
• Fallout 2 (Exceptions 2) (PC)