I’m very happy with the pile of links that I have managed to collect since the last post. Let me jump straight into it:

I am suprised that I haven’t linked off here yet. For the past few weeks I’ve been reading the blog of Thomas Ella @ Whatisdelicious. His blog is strictly about games and he does a good job of it. From reviews, editorials and news Thomas has a great variety of quality posts. If you like my blog then I strongly recomend checking out his as well as its very good. He is also now on my blogroll just incase you forget.

I am into the whole desktop customization thing and wanted to share some wallpapers that I have been using recently. The first one is a collection of wallpapers from my favourite digital illustrator j3concepts. He did this pack for a modelling website called SuicideGirls based on alternative models. The other wallpaper is of a modern building, its rather minimalistic bt you gotta love that contempory design.

I also have some awesome music news to report, one of my favourite bands The Verve have made a comeback, after almost a decade apart this brilliant band are back together with a new tour and an album in the works. If you don’t know these guys they did such awesome songs as Bittersweet Symphony, Lucky Man, Gravity Grave and the lead singer Richard Ashcroft has done some brilliant tracks in the past 6 years or so.

The other bit of music news is that Jamiroquai are releasing a new live DVD from the Montreux Jazz Festival 2003 concert. They have a bunch of fan favourite songs played in the concert too which is awesome.

Going back to video games for a moment a few days ago I was linked to a tutorial on how to make your own pixel art t-shirts. This is a totally awesome tutorial, now that its the holidays my brother and I are going to give this a try.

Considering that I have been doing so much Chinese revision in the past few weeks I figured that it’d be worth me dedicating a link to it. If you are learning chinese or want to learn it then I recomend checking out this forum post down @ Chineseforums.com. Its a run down of some great onine resources. Very useful.

Thats it for now, if you have any good links that you wish to share with us then go for it. We’d love to hear them.

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G’day people thanks for tuning in. Its been a while since I’ve written something not related to anything. In the next few days I’ll probably put out something about how my personal life is actually going but until then we have: This weeks linkies.I’ve decided to turn this into a regular segment which I shall try to post bi-weekly. And as its a regular segment now it deserves its own header. Okay lets get into it.

I’ve been saving this one up for a while now. Its a link to an IGN article about a photoshoot with all of the Tomb Raider models. That is models that have cosplayed(I guess) as Lara Croft. For some reason they are suited up in the typical Lara Croft get up. But it makes for a good link anyways. So check it out.

Talking about Tomb Raider, GameTrailers has had a few good video reviews recently including Tomb Raider Anniversary Edition, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. I love video reviews. Screw Attack also have a bunch of new stuff out as well. So check them out.

My brother has also linked me to a site which scans your last.fm account and ranks your mainstream level. Out of my friends on last.fm I was the most mainstream. I’m not really sure if thats a negative or positive thing actually, not sure.

Apple has also released a beta version of their internet browser; Safari for Windows platforms. You can get it for yourself here. Unfortunately when I loaded my Safari up this problem occurred:

I’m not sure what is going on, the language is totally messed up and there was something in the search box as well. Damn, looks like I am stuck with Opera. Oh well.

I’ve been catching up on some old feeds from a blog that I read about the problems in China. I had to cycle thru 106 feeds but I can thankfully say that I am thru them all. I just want to point out one post about censorship on blogging in China. Take a read.

I’ve been on the search for retro video game blogs this week as I have a thirst for all things old school gaming. I can’t stop playing the old titles, they are just so great. On my search for blogging goodness I stumbled upon an excellent blog. Initially I didn’t think much of the site, the design is rather basic and it looks a little drab but the posts are of excellent content. Proving the theory that content is king. Anyways if you are like me and need some nostalgia then take a look.

This week I have been working on setting up accounts for 2 social network sites, they are flickr and FaceBook. So far I am pretty happy with how I am going. If you have an acount with these servies then feel free to add me or whatever.

As a final closing note I would like to plug a blogging buddy of mine Alun Lower whom is now a reviews editor for the website; N-Galaxy. Congrats buddy. You may have also noticed that he’s blog Virtua Blogger is now on my blogroll. It’s always good to do some link exchanging.

Anyways, that concludes ‘This weeks linkies’. Thanks for reading. Be sure to give me a heads up in the comment box if you found any of these links useful or if you have the same annoying problem in Safari as myself.

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Firstly I’d better link out to something I saw a few weeks back on The Spriter’s Resource which was something that I’ve been meaning to find for years. That is the facial animations in the codec conversation for the original Metal Gear Solid game.

As I have been madly working on an essay this week I managed to stumble upon Google Books which I haven’t used before. Basically you search for books and then can stream a preview of the book. I actually managed to find a book online and then get it at the Uni library later on.

Last week I bought a Playstation 2 at a great price down at Harvey Norman(I’ll blog about this later). Now I managed to find out about the bundle that they had on sale at a website called Economical Gamer. The site has some great content such as the latest gaming competitions, discounts, events and also free games. This site is really helpful and I highly recommend a look.

My brother has been emailing me piles of links this week and the only one worth mentioning here is one about surround gaming. That is playing games on multiple monitors etc. We all wish that we could have this set up and surprising a few games do actually support it.

In the last few days Screw Attack have had 2 gaming vault videos on Megaman and Megaman 2 for the NES. These would have to be some of their best entries in this section. So definetly check it out as always.

The last link for this week goes to Andreas bard who wrote about self discipline. Something that I use to think I had quite a bit of. I always find his blog to be really useful and encouraging. So check it out.

And until next time, adiaos.

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Last weekend wasn’t too bad I had a haircut, did a brief bit of shopping and had mothers day on the Sunday. I was really happy with my new haircut, got my fav hairdresser this time. Its just a shorter version of the same old, with a bit more left at the back. Just the way I like it.

Chris picked up a few CDs on the weekend:

Eyes Open Snow Patrol
Minutes to Midnight Linkin Park
Black Fingernails Red Wine Bonus edition Eskimo Joe

I haven’t listened to Eskimo Joe yet as I’m not really interested. Eyes Open is okay but I think that the album doesn’t deserve as much popularity. I guess I’m already faithful to other bands of the same genre.

Minitues to Midnight is very interesting. Its very alternative, I like it..probably less so than LPs previous albums. But thats not because its bad, I don’t think that LP have hit the mark with this one. And I rekon that they know it. They seem to still be searching for their new sound. Saying this I love Bleed it out and Hands held high they have such excellent lyrics and definetly deserve major kudos.

There are two songs that I want to link out to. Specifically I want to link out to a song that I’ve been interested for a long time but have only now gotten around to listening to it again.

That is the song Changes by 2Pac. Its such an inspiring song, I’ve the song in my head for at least a week. I’ll try and keep an eye out for his Greatest Hits CD so I can pick that up.In anycase check out the clip: