Yes I got it... I got a 60gig Xbox 360 and boy was it was worth it. I got it for a pretty good deal too. The 360 was $399 and then I got 4 $80 games for a extra $50, are they trying to lose money or what. What are the games that I got you may ask, well they are; Lego Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda which are the 2 official games that Microsoft adds, the 2 that JB-HI throws in are; Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and brothers in Arms. I also bought Gears of War 2 separate which is a very good game and Mums got me Halo 3 for Christmas (you can't have an Xbox without Halo), which is for the best as I want to play Halos 1 and 2 before 3 (probably should have done that with Gears 2 also).

Now that I have both of the 2 main HD consoles I can now compare them. First off thank you Sony for allowing any old laptop hard drive work with the PlayStation and adding a wireless adaptor for online in unlike MS where you have to spend $130 for the Xbox adaptor. As for MS thanks for taking complete control over the system making sure that every game can be installed and you can have a custom soundtrack over any game and making Xbox Live just one login name, looking at you Metal Gear Online and your Konami ID's and then having to make a Game ID after, what's up with that. So as most of you already know every console has there ups and down whether it be the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or even the Wii.

 Come on now play nice.

Another thing that happened over the past week was I went down to Game On which showed the history everything from SpaceWar! one of the first known computer games made in 1962 to Halo 3. Including the first ever Pong game on the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972. There were also a lot of arcade machines from the likes of Puck Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids my favourites being Discs of Tron and Star Wars.

Anyway I think I'm going to get back to more Gears of War 2, Matty out.

One more thing my you can add my Xbox Live Gamertag, which is Matty44m.

Well it's been a while since I wrote one of these blogs, about a full school term. And that exams have almost finished, just one more to go one Friday I actually have some spare time. Which is I can tell you is a hell of a lot better than looking at numbers and equal signs and what not for the past week studding for a Math and Physics Test. Now I just have one more day to go which is a practices QCS writing test which is to see what our OP could be at the end of year 12.

So with one more day of year 11 to go till I get a week off till I do some work experience which I'm going to be doing at another architecture place. So I do that for a week and after that, 7 weeks of holidays YAY!

Game on which is a place where you "play thought the history of videogames" which looks pretty cool. Where they have games from the old arcade machines like; Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede, Ms Pac Man, Missile Command, Metal Slug X, Discs of Tron and offcourse Star Wars. Then there some from the 90's and 00's like; Bob the Builder (PS) (can't wait to play that one), Ridge Racer (PS), Virtua Tennis 2 (Dreamcast), Mario Superstar Baseball (GC), Super Smash Bros (GC), Lego Star Wars (Xbox), Jak and Dexter (PS2), Doom (PC), Zelda (N64), Final Fantasy VII (PS), Mario 64 (N64) and many more full list here I think there about 100+, well that's what the site says. So I'm most definitely going to get my Game On at Game On. I'll post something here after.

It also looks like I might be getting a Xbox 360 instead of Rock Band this is mainly because its Rock Band 1 not 2 and the 360 is only around $100 or $150 more and I would get more out of a new console being able to play with friends online and what not.  Instead of paying $250 to $300 for some plastic instruments that I can only really play with 2 games.

And that's pretty much it. See you online and maybe on even on Xbox Live.

Matty

Hello Again, I thought it would be a good idea to right another blog post about what's been happing, as that seems to be what a lot of them have been about lately. First there was the driving up to Mackay which is a 12+hour drive from the Sunshine Coast (lucky I got that iPod earlier). After staying around there for a week seeing family and things like that it was another 2 hour drive to Airlie Beach to put the boat in to see the Whitsundays. A very nice place about half way down the Great Barrier Reef, as you will see by the photos.

Meet up with one of the locals named George which is Hump Headed MaoriWrasse that lives around Hook Island, he was there last time we went which was 2 years ago.

Another picture of George showing just how big this fish is. And me giving him a pat on the back.

one the way back to Hamilton Island we met up with a group of 3 Humpback Whales; the Mum, Calf and another one(possibly the previous calf). When we sore them we decided to follow them around to get some pictures for a while. Until the mum came up the take a breath about 3 meters behind the boat and that when it was decided that it was about time to leave them alone, because you don't want a 10m+ whale hitting the side of a 7m boat. As you may know whales are pretty strong animals, may have something to do with being the largest animal on the planet. Anyway as we were just about to leave the Calf came up just to the side of the boat, with its fin hitting the side of the boat resulting in him freaking out and diving down rocking the whole boat and here's a picture that was taken.

We then went back to the hotel on Hamilton Island, which is a very nice hotel with a very good view.

Lovely. There were also a lot of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos of which we have one a home called Percy. Anyway in the island they tell you to shut your doors as the birds will get in and take whatever food they can find and on the way up in the elevator (because they where outdoor ones with the windows) one of the birds was sitting on the railing with one foot and the other holding a piece of pizza which was quite funny to see. Queue picture of bird.

Funny looking birds aren't they. And then we drove all the way home in time for school and that's pretty much it.