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A different point of view

Due to a gift from the ether, I have now replaced my clunky 2 year old Belinea monitor with a nice new 17 inch flat screen model. The difference in quality is vast – the colours are crisp, black really is black and everything on screen looks much sharper.

Needless to say, I am in debt to the 17 inch flatscreen monitor god while I work off this gift via quality website production. Oh yes.

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Cracking Superbowl

Congrats to the Tampa Bay Buc’s who thrashed the Oakland Raiders in Sunday nights’ NFL Superbowl.

The late night was made all the more worthwhile by the excellent coverage from Five here in the UK. In fact, their coverage all season has been the best we’ve had in the UK in many years – well done :o)

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Movie & Game Night at Cedrick’s

Saturday night was my first in attendance at the legendary Movie & Game night at monsieur Cedrick Collomb’s place.

Cedrick has a H – U – G – E 42 inch tv, so I couldn’t resist bringing along TimeSplitters 2 for some four-player blasting. A fine, if brief, killing frenzy was enjoyed by a few of us before moving on to the first DVD of the night Galaxy Quest.

My fellow Questerians enjoyed this as much as ever and it served as a good warm up for movie number two, The Thomas Crown Affair. This I had never seen before, but I quite enjoyed the well paced story and the games played by the two leads.

Our host gets a ten out of ten for a night well worth the short trip – I’ll be back next time! :o)

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