My friend Sam convinced me to purchase Red Alert 3, going on about how fun it was. Having read reviews that weren’t that favourable I had my doubts. Anyway in a fit of boredom I decided to purchase it from GAME at the reasonable price of £19.99 for the deluxe version, hardly as exciting as my friend Alex’s quest to get the game.

I’ve played quite a few games online with my friends now and have to say Sam was right, it is fun. It’s far from perfect, but it seems far more focused on not taking itself to seriously and I like that. An all round excellent game.

Now if only the sods will buy Team Fortress 2 on my recommendation, the world would be a better place

This is an e-shot I did at work, had a nice theme to work from so had a good go at this one. I’m pleased with how it turned out. Click image below to view.

Well I finally finished decorating my play room about a week or two ago, but I’ve been a bit lazy getting around to taking some photos. I’m calling it a play room, pc room, media room anything but office. Office just reminds me too much of work… but I often find myself slipping up and calling it an office anyway.

Mental ramblings aside I’ve got some photos now and you can view them below, WAHEY!

Nice weather for the next couple of days according to google, awesome

I’ve been playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 loads recently. It’s a brilliant game to play with mates over Xbox Live and really encourages team tactics by giving everyone the XP earned in game.

I played the first one quite a lot online and really enjoyed it and this one is no different. Playing Terrorist Hunt with friends mostly but dabble in multiplayer matches every now and again.

So yeah if you have a 360 and haven’t got it yet, I recommend it. It’s only £9.99 over at play.com.

Well my good old 7800GTX has lasted me a good couple of years but now with ATI offering a cheap but solid gaming solution with the HD4770 I forked out a measley £90  to get a massive performance boost in my aging PC.

Currently running it on an AMD Athlon 4000+ with 2GB of DDR2 memory, which is a bit of a bottleneck but what matters is the games and they are performing great. Certainly beats the full £500 upgrade I was looking at which I can’t really afford right now.

Oh and Ruby certainly beats the stupid fairy woman Nvidia have as their mascot.

Two web sites I’ve worked on recently have gone live in the last month so you can check out some of my work

First the A2Z web site has finally been updated with a new layout I designed based on a template the boss chose. The site is using a new CMS that my department has built so I have no control on how the content looks within the layout but it handles it pretty well. I have created all the banners so far though, not 100% happy with all of them but you don’t always have the luxury of time at work.

Site has since changed, I was not involved in this… AT ALL!

Secondly the development team I work in tasked me with creating a site for our products brand name Medida. I designed this site from scratch everything here is my work minus some of the content that has been written to explain the products. Content is a bit sparse in some areas but overall I’m very happy with this site.

Site has since changed, I was not involved in this… AT ALL!

Well me and Laura have moved into our new house now. We’re happy with the size, it’s plenty big enough.

We’re currently in the process of decorating the living room so we have at least one room how we want it. Hopefully that will nearly be finished at the end of the week and I can plan on getting my friends down sometime soonish.

Decorating is a right pain though, when it’s your own home you’re far more critical on everything. Painting is easily the most difficult thing to get spot on but I’m getting there

Just a quick update this one, been really busy with sorting house stuff and working so struggling to find time to update.

I went to IKEA retail park in Nottingham this weekend in search of house things, was there from about 12-6PM shopping.

I found the best cheese grater I’ve ever seen and it was a mere three hundred and seventy one of my English pennies. Money well spent.

Got some glasses of the pint variety and some smaller ones for fruit juice and what not. We also went to look in CSL for a sofa or two as my mum has given us a grand towards them. We ended up buying a three seater and a two seater, have to wait ages for delivery though. I would post a photo but the one on the web site doesn’t look anything like it.

So that was my weekend, now back to work…

Well finding a house has been a pretty stressful process but we’re nearing the end now. The solicitors are are in the process of sorting out the contracts and they have to be done by the 18th March but could be finished earlier.

We’re going to be living in Mountsorrel but I’m not going to say where until it’s finalised, don’t want to jinx it

I can however show the awesome new bed me and Laura are getting from her parents…

In KING SIZE baby!