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July 7th, 2008

A Bit of a Halo Flashback

I had a bit of a Xbox flashback on Sunday night as I ended up meeting with a college friend and since both of us had our wives out of town we decided to take advantage of the moment and play a bit of Halo. Notice I didn’t say Halo 3. We were playing the […]

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April 24th, 2007

New Maps for Halo 2

I just received an e-mail with some great news. There are two new, revamped maps available for Halo 2 on Xbox and Xbox 360.

Reincarnated as Tombstone, navigate the ancient battlegrounds of Hang ‘Em High (the Halo: Combat Evolved classic), modernized for a newly dedicated Halo militia.
Welcome to Desolation. Originally known as the death match centric […]

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May 31st, 2006

Get a Bird’s Eye View

Was just playing around with Windows Live Local. Sure it’s a lot like Google Maps / Google Local, but the clarity on Microsoft’s Live Local is very impressive. The picture below is a screen capture looking at my house. I’m zoomed in the closest I can get on both services.

Google is on the left, […]

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