This week’s loves and hates

Sunday 28th September 2008

Loves

Voiceover in Super Smash Bros. Brawl – No matter how many times I hear “NEW RECORD” bellowed out I still smile. Little touches like this make the game one of the best on Wii and a great improvement on the GameCube’s Super Smash Bros. Melee, which is also a great game.

Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men – Jack Nicholson is one of my favourite actors so I made time to watch the film A Few Good Men this week. It had been a while since I last saw it and forgot how good he is in it. The acting in the courtroom “you can’t handle the truth!” scene from Nicholson has to be one of the best pieces of acting of all time.

Entourage 2008 – at last I made the switch from Mail/iCal to Entourage and have not looked back (I hated Entourage 2004). Finally my emails and calendar are in sync with my Mac at work and iPhone. If Apple can get the iPhone to sync with Exchange why can’t they do it with Mail.app?

Wembley Stadium – I was at this year’s Google Developer Day 2008 on Tuesday at Wembley Stadium. A fantastic arena and a great day.

Hates

Fancy dress – why does every work-related social event have to involve fancy dress!? Next up: an “airline” themed fancy dress party in Spain later this month.

Custom-built email management tools – Urrgh

Car insurance salesmen – it’s that time of year again. About 5 seconds after requesting a car insurance quote on confused.com I had a pushy salesman on the phone. “We appeared top for you, blah blah blah.”

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