Lots of overtime at work. Shawn and I got moved to midnights for the coming week. They say it'll only be for this week, but that's what we were told last time and it ended up being like 6 weeks. I hope this doesn't last long. Blarg!

I hope everyone had a good long weekend! Mine was pretty good, had a few good rounds of golf, watched some movies, etc. Friday will be remembered for an incident on the dance floor - Shawn was laughing for hours. A cute girl that had talked to me earlier came and demanded I come and dance - I insisted that I don't dance, but she grabbed me and dragged me onto the dance floor. Then handed me over to her monstrous friend. Twice my size and ugly as a mule, she latched onto me like a leech and didn't seem at all interested in letting go. All I could do was mouth "WTF!!" to my friends who stood over across the room taking immense pleasure in my situation. I'm not a mean person though, so I stuck it through like a true trooper! Finally Sonya came to my rescue and said we were all about to leave - only then did leech allow herself to detach. At least everyone got a good laugh out of the whole thing. I even found myself laughing about it. It's a good thing I have the capacity to laugh at my own misfortune - it makes for some amusing evenings.

Now the debate starts.

The PS3 has been revealed.

1 core with 7 SPE's vs 3 cores with 2 hardware threads each. The ability for programmers to push the most out of the hardware will heavily depend on the development tools they're given.

The nVidea GPU is impressive - They took a bit of a different route than ATI did with the Xbox GPU - but I wouldn't say it's more powerful than the ATI counterpart.

The capacity for 7 wireless controllers is a nice touch. I wonder about what kind of games will be compatible with 7 players at once through one unit. For example will Gran Tourismo create 7 separate screens for every player? That's a lot of strain on the hardware.

Anyhow - we have 2 impressive consoles so far - next up is Nintendo Revolution.

The disintegration of honour in parliament...

...has me seriously disappointed. Maybe it's just me, but there seems something inherently wrong with utilizing the cancerous tumors some MP's are dealing with as a means of political positioning. Even though I'm sure those MP's in question approved of the idea for the sake of their party. This entire affair makes a person wonder whatever happened to the concept of 'good government'. Watching question period makes me want to throw out the whole lot of them and start over.

I think I could do a better job. In fact, next election - Vote for honour, Vote for geeks, Vote for Bryan!!

I saw some 'leaked' hardware statistics for the Xbox 360 that is supposed to be unveiled at this years E3 show. Look at these stats - Crazy!

1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
- 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels