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Archive for July, 2006

Mortal Kombat Armageddon: Character selection screen

July 31st, 2006

Mortal Kombat Armageddon is meant to draw to a close this chapter of the Mortal Kombat story, wrapping up all the loose ends brought on my all past incarnations of the popular (and bloody) fighting game. In this way, all of the characters you know and love are back, from classic Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and Kano [...]

CityTV’s Taste of the City

July 30th, 2006

Yesterday was CityTV’s Taste of the City, held at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver. To recap, there were 20 some odd local restaurants showcasing their dishes to the eager (and hungry) public, from butter chicken to hamburgers, Filipino desserts to mildly-flavoured water. In exchange for a certain number of tickets (which were being sold [...]

Creative way to mow the lawn

July 26th, 2006

Came across this during my daily journeys through the forums and blogosphere. A user on REVscene.net known only as kspec let his lawn go unmowed for a solid four months. The result was an absolute jungle… in his own words, it “turned into a basic jungle…[a] jungle for creative ideas to flow through.” After five [...]

I review the rugged Motorola i580

July 24th, 2006

Writing for Mobile Magazine has got its perks. I already had the chance to review the Archos 104 music player, but for the past week or so, I’ve been toying around with the Motorola i580 iDEN phone from Nextel (also offered as the i570 in Canada, through Telus Mobility). It’s one ultra rugged number with [...]

Best Lesser-Known TV Shows

July 23rd, 2006

There’s a lot of garbage on television these days, but there are also a lot of programs out there that don’t get as much media attention as the latest edition of American Idol, for example. In future entries in this blog, I might venture into the more mainstream programs that show up in primetime on [...]