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Well, I’ve shaken off my blogging apathy a bit, so here I am. No real reason, just not a lot to say for a bit.

I’ve made an important, life-changing decision. The first next-gen console I am going to buy is an Xbox 360. I’ve thought long and hard about it, really am drawn towards the Wii, but the fact that Phantasy Star Universe is coming for the 360 has swung it, I just can’t imagine not playing that as soon as possible. So I shall count my pennies, consider what I can trade in towards it (almost certainly the majority of my xbox kit, bar the odd game that works on the 360 that I like) and take it from there.

full of snot and apathy at the moment. Annoyed by it now.

Get the impression my iPod is thinking about dying on me, the battery is playing up somewhat, and it is a swine to update at times. Think I may get a new battery put in when I get the chance. I wonder if I can take it to an Apple store and get it done on the spot or something? Really wish to avoid getting a new one if at all possible, not at least until they make the new ones touchscreen.

Speaking of which, loads of new Apple stuff announced yesterday, new iPods mainly with little upgrades, new version of iTunes with a wad of new features including coverart, and also the ability to sync it with two machines, which I may try and report back on shortly, as I am very keen to see how this works. Would suit how I use mine, as I use the iPod a lot at work. Also is a set-top box currently named iTV, which for £300 looks like it could be a very interesting entry point into Apple

Never suggest in a blog posting you are going to post more frequently. You might get a cold or flu or something and spend a few days in bed. Better now, mind.

I’m trying out something new here, a program called reBlog. Basically it is a combination of an RSS feed reader (feeds of blog posts and the like) and a republisher, that pushes posts through to a blog. It is all quite new and shiny, and took a bit of setting up, but it may just encourage me to post a little more frequently.

• A video single by Bomb the Bass
• The book 45 by Bill Drummond
• Battle for the Trees by Merrick
• My heart, too many times when I was young (although I got to give it properly in the end)
• A Mega City Four cassette
• 3ft High and Rising by De La Soul

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I’ve remembered this week that I need to feed both my geek and my creative sides. Been too geek lately, just reading geek books. Thus the Louis Theroux book, and also getting a good way into the Julian Cope biography Head On (the only book I own a t-shirt of). Have read it once before, but it is a wonderful description of the Liverpool punk and post-punk scene (which seemed to happen pretty much simultaneously). I’m not a massive creative, nor a genius geek, but if I feed both in vaguely equal measures my brain seems to work better on both. Sorted out some annoying stuff at work today that had been like digging syrup into a wheelbarrow with a fork until today.

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Have just finished reading Louis Theroux – The Call of the Weird. Very odd book. The basic premise is that he goes back and revists some of the people he met and filmed in America during his various tv shows, and finds out what has happened to them. A varied and disperate bunch, UFOlogists, prostitutes, porn stars, rappers, white supremacists, and Ike Turner.

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Don’t make an effort yourself. Use a script…