Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

And this is where the Harry Potter series stopped being aimed squarely at children. You can tell just by the size of it - it's twice the size of Prisoner of Azkaban and three times the size of Philosopher's Stone. This is probably my favourite book of the series behind Deathly Hallows (for reasons that will be explained later), it's…

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

At this point I feel these are still children's books, although the tone is starting to shift a little. I loved the dynamic between Remus Lupin and Harry - it was the first time Harry really learned about his father from someone who knew him very well, although they seemed to talk about Sirius Black more (given his escape from…

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Chamber of Secrets is a cracking mystery - The main villain turns out to be someone... er... something most unexpected. A part of Lord Voldemort's soul encased in his diary - Later revealed to be a Horcrux. And the Sword of Gryffindor was given Horcrux destroying abilities in this book too. Again, how much of the future did J.K.…

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

In terms of "stuff what I read", March was most definitely Harry Potter month. One month, all seven books. These were originally going to be one "MASSIVE POST", but I felt they'd be better as separate entries over the course of a few days. Anyway, this was the second time I have read the series, and I got through the…
True Achievements is a great website

True Achievements is a great website

Being well into my Gamerscore, I love it! http://www.trueachievements.com/ Basically, they were annoyed that there are certain disparages within the Gamerscore points system (some easy Achievements in easy games award the same amount of points as hard Achievements in hard games), so they award more Achievement points to Achievements that are harder to obtain than easy ones. The formula is…

I’m doing it wrong

Usually I’ve written my Sunday entry by now – I like to make notes of any ideas I have, or any exciting events there may have been during the week, and most times I actually write it ahead of time when the inspiration strikes. This week however, the only thing of note that has happened is that interview I had, but I’ve already covered that in a post of it’s own… So… I’m struggling to think of things to write about.

Oh, I remember something now, the Live Arcade game this week was Game Room (essentially a collection of demos for rubbish old games), and it was free. That sounds good, right? Free game – free Achievements. Not really very many achievements, but some, 80 G’s added to your Gamerscore for free, nonetheless. To get anywhere near the full 1000 you need to pay for the individual games, and considering they are mostly priced the same as proper Live Arcade titles, it’s a bit of a money-spinning exercise by Microsoft there. Did I mention the games are all awful? Well, one or two could be construed as “classic”, but they’re mostly dog-shit.

Something else I could mention is that I’ve been re-reading the Harry Potter books this month, I finished Deathly Hallows the other night and I’m slowly writing up my thoughts on them. Expect those posts early April.

I had a couple of comments today

So, you know that post I made yesterday about having a job interview? It's just below this one, scroll down a little. Well I got a couple of comments on it from some spambots (pretending to be natural and not come across as spambots). Here, read the first one: I really can’t understand some points of this post, but I…
One life

One life

We just get the one life, you know. Just one. You can't live someone else's or think it's more important just because it's more dramatic. What happens matters. Maybe only to us, but it matters. 50 points to anyone who can tell me what film that quote is from. I used to always want to write an autobiography, but the…