Well, apparently my subconscious has decided that a spot of retail therapy is in order because I’ve been a bit online shopping crazy!

In the past week I’ve ordered not one, not two, but three t-shirts (as well as a hoody), four awesome DVDs (Usual Suspects, LA Confidential, Kick-Ass and The Godfather Trilogy), a powerball (I’m trying to increase my drumming strength and masturbating just doesn’t cut it any more!), Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition on 360, some optical cables and an optical splitter.

I also picked up Civilization: The Board Game. Which is amazing.

I feel better now. Screw you austerity/holiday blues!

Twitter is incredibly flaky in this regard; 99 times out of 100 it claims Twitter is over capacity. Apparently the maximum image size limit allowed is 800k, but I rarely get it to upload unless the image is somewhere in the region of 200k (a.k.a. hideously compressed).

Get it sorted please Twitter!

Anyway, here it is in action:

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I am aware that this post might come across as a shameless, shallow attempt to gain more followers, but it’s really just so I can show off my new background, honest guv!

Oh and the Rockstar website does have some awesome wallpapers and avatar images by the way. If you’re into that sort of thing, you should definitely visit the Rockstar Downloads page.

A little late to the party I admit, but I’ve only just got hold of my post and this May copy of EDGE magazine. There’s a rather large feature on the upcoming PlayStation Move controller and games, and who should appear on page 68? Why, it’s none other than yours truly. Hello!

At last, my plan for world domination is finally in motion! Shame they didn’t think much of TV Superstars! 8)

Thanks to @MrTom for the heads-up all those weeks ago!

This sensation is actually pretty typical. In at least the past two classes I’ve had “dips” during the middle few weeks of the term where I’ve felt bad about either about my work or my effort levels. It’s something I’ve always broken out of so I don’t expect it to last long, I just needed to tell someone :)

I’ll try and get my recent work and critiques posted first thing tomorrow!

Awesome polling station photo (via @getavote)

Hope you did too!

My dear friend Paul, alerted to me IOGraph this week – it’s a rather simple but lovely program that records your mouse movements across your desktop and outputs a PNG. Why? Well, why the heck not!

You can also add your desktop background into the image to clearly show where your mouse pointer spends most of its time – I just added the major traffic routes (Maya, basically) as notes on Flickr.

I think the results are quite striking – what do you reckon? I might well try a little experiment once I finish work where I try and run it every day for the 3 months that I’m off and then animate the results somehow… Could be cool!

Alright so I’m a big kid, give me a break! In all fairness, I was watching the Thundercats intro when I made my Burnout Friday call-to-arms last week and noticed just how strong some of the posing is. Really nice stuff, some great lines of action. At least, that’s how I have justified my purchase. That and the fact that I’ve been wanting to get it for ages. Dungeons & Dragons was an essential purchase  given that it cost me less than £8. Yes, OK I’m a big kid! :P

I think my weekend is pretty much sorted! :D

Yay for freebies! \o/

Oh and there’s been a small influx of news regarding LBP PSP recently, so I’ll try and collate all that a bit later!

(via @botherer on Twitter)