What’s with all the films?

Many of my posts are mini-reviews for the films I'm watching as part of the 2010 IMDb Top 250 Challenge. Read more here.
January 1st, 2010

The IMDb Top 250 Challenge

2009 was quite a roller-coster year over in the land of turtles called SiD.  The year drifted past and I’m not quite sure what happened to it, even though it was quite eventful.  Thus time flies past and blogs become neglected.  So, on to a new year, a new decade, same old decline in posting [...]

March 15th, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Electro-Choc

Electro-Choc Spotify Playlist

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March 2nd, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – The Journey

The Journey Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Liberty Rock Radio

Liberty Rock Radio Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists – Radio Broker

Radio Broker Spotify Playlist

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March 1st, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV Spotify Playlists

Spotify has become my main way of listening to music at home, though I’ll leave the discussion of that to another day.  I’m also playing ‘The Lost and Damned’ addon to Grand Theft Auto IV at the moment, which has inspired me to check out some of the bands on GTA IV’s many radio stations [...]

November 19th, 2008

First Impressions of the New Xbox Experience

Pros

It’s responsive. Downloading games to the hard disk is a fantastic feature, making the Xbox 360 so much quieter. The whole interface reminds me of the various media centre apps out at the moment, with context sensitive backgrounds and information. The mini guide that appears when you press in the Xbox guide button is [...]

September 27th, 2008

Microsoft’s ‘Live Your Moment’ Marketing Campaign Rolls Out

With more details of the New Xbox Experience (NXE) trickling out as well as the first sightings of the ‘Live Your Moment’ advertising campaign on TV and online, it seems the marketing juggernaught at Microsoft is on the move and trying and steal some of the lucrative casual market from Nintendo.

Firstly we have [...]

September 25th, 2008

Rock Band 2 in the UK – November

EA is known for reaching new levels of diabolicalness with their extortionate prices for Rock Band 1 in the UK and releasing Rock Band 1 in other parts of Europe and Australia only now even though Rock Band 2 is out in the USA and was going for a a third by keeping silent [...]

August 23rd, 2008

Blade Runner: DVD vs Blu-ray Comparison

I recently picked up a LG Blu-ray/HD DVD drive for my HTPC (model number LG GGW-H20L), along with Casino Royale and Batman Begins to show it off.  Blu-ray is indeed a step up from DVD, though not quite the revelation that was VHS to DVD.  There is one movie however, which has been acclaimed as [...]