Same crap… different blog.

Believe it or not, some college freshman managed to trade his hacked iPhone for a car. And not just some beater either… a Nissan 350Z! On top of that the guy giving him the car is tossing in three more 8GB iPhones as well. I just don’t get this honestly. I mean the iPhone is cool and all, but is it really worth that just because it’s been unlocked? Also, with the coming Playstation phone now, will the iPhone still be so hot by Christmas? What do you think?

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Today Paramount announced it’s support of the HD DVD format instead of supporting both HD DVD and Blu-ray (with the exception of any Steven Spielberg film). This is a huge win for HD DVD in my opinion! As a supporter of HD DVD, I’m happy to hear that I’ll be able to purchase the new Transformers movie for my Xbox 360 HD DVD player. Paramount stated that their reason for the change was due to the cheaper hardware cost of HD DVD players. Hopefully other movie studios will notice this as well and begin to throw more support towards the HD DVD format. If nothing else, maybe this will cause Blockbuster to re-evaluate their lack of support for the format and bring back HD DVD movies to their stores.

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Last night I played the Bioshock demo on my Xbox 360 and I have to say that this game just rocks! While the demo only allowed me to play for 30 mins or so, it was a dark, erie, pulse-pounding 30 minutes. The gothic 40’s era setting really gives it a great feel and look while the ambient sounds coming from my 7.1 channel surround setup made me look over my shoulder more than once. On top of just looking and sounding great, the story was very interesting which is usually not the case with most FPS’s (first person shooter) out there. They used a narrative-type tactic to keep you informed on what was going on in the game as well as having the NPC’s (non-player characters) use their AI to tell you more of the story as you went along. Couple all of that with some great weapons, smooth combat, and easy controls and you end up with a killer game! I’m definitely going to consider buying this game when it comes out next Tuesday even though I know I’ll be setting it aside on September 25th for Halo 3. That said, I highly recommend that you download and try out the demo on Xbox Live very soon!

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Yesterday I hit the weights at the gym for the first time in well over a year… and damn if I’m not sore today. It’s a good pain though and well worth it so I guess I shouldn’t complain. While I didn’t start off with free weights as I’d wanted to, I did use the Kaiser machines to do some circuit training (hit all the major muscle groups for two sets of 10 reps with 30 secs of rest between sets). I decided to do this to gain some basic strength before I start hitting real weights. I’ve lost a lot of muscle while dieting recently so I thought this might be a good idea. I mean the last thing I want to do is hurt myself early in my training and have to wait even longer to start getting more fit. So I’ll be doing the circuit training for the next four weeks at a rate of three days per week (Sun, Tue, Thur) while I continue my cardio program for another three days (Mon, Wed, Fri). I’ll be taking off Saturdays since I usually walk 18 holes of golf and bowl 6-8 games of bowling that day… and let’s be honest, all workout and no play make Mike a dull boy right?

On a similar front, I’ve gone off the Yellow Devils (Ephedra) and started taking Lipo 6 instead. While I have to say that so far I’ve found the Lipo 6 less than stellar, I’ll give it full 30 days and see if I like the results. If not, I may try something else non-Ephedra based but I’m not sure what just yet. My wife is currently using Hot Rox but she’s hasn’t given it very good reviews so far. Either way, I’ll update you here on my Lipo 6 findings after using it for a full 30 days so you’ll have a good, honest review (which is hard to find on many diet products).

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