I've been toying with the idea of buying a reasonably sized 19" LCD TV for a few hundred quid, just to use with my 360, or a decent laptop, but I've decided that I just wouldnt use them enough to warrant me to spend my hard earned (ok, maybe not so hard earned) money on them. I decided instead that I'd get a decent pair of headphones for about 60 quid or so, because I'd actually get a lot of use out of them, for both late night movies / gaming sessions and listening to music. Sennheiser's seem to be the way to go, so I'm going to order some before the weekend, and hopefully I'll have them by friday night or around then.

I'm also going to be catching up with a few games I've missed over christmas, like Fallout 3, and I'll almost definately be getting Guitar Hero Metallica and Resi 5 when they come out. I'm on the fence with a couple of games, too, like HAWX and Street Fighter 4.

I've also been delving (all too far) into the world of photoshop recently, and so today I made myself a new banner to adorn my profile for a while. It's rather simple, but I ran out of ideas (and patience) and so stopped there. Thoughts on it?

So I've installed the public beta of Microsofts Windows 7 over XP (SP2), which I've used practically since its launch in 2001. I must admit it's one hell of a change, but definately one for the better. It's a lot faster booting up, though I'm not sure if thats due to my hard drive not being fragmented for the first time since I got it It's a lot more user friendly, though when I was setting up my network settings, I felt it was a little too dumbed down, and that it didn't give me access to everything I wanted it to.

I'd definately recommend it, though you might want to do what I didn't and dual boot by installing it in a separate partition.

Got a few screens for those who are interested:

My currently rediculously empty desktop ^^.

Pretty empty menu bar.

Example of a window in the "Libraries" section.

Just thought I'd post a small little review / blog post about my recent purchase of meteos, a game for DS thats actually been out for 2 years without me buying it. I've been playing it for little over an hour now, and I absolutely love it! I haven't figured out a huge portion of the game yet, but the whole concept so far seems really awesome, really easy but also really challenging. Can't remember a game that was FUN and CHALLENGING at the same time, and not tear-your-own-eyeballs-from-your head challenging either! Been a really good purchase for me and I'd thoroughly recommend it to anyone who can get thier hands on a copy.