brim4brim's blog of madness

Okay so my favourite hang out has undergone another name change

Now its called http://exiledgamers.com and you are all invited. We want gamers from all consoles (preferably no die hard fanboys ) and you don't have to be a hardcore gamer.

We have gamers from across a lot of age groups from teens to 40 something year olds so give us a look see if you want a game or something or if you want to join a clan, we'll certainly be open to that too. Its very relaxed on the site so just be yourself and start a welcome thread if you join.

If you do join, watch out for COW! <==Will be explained soon after you join.

Its free of course and there is no spam or any weird crap like that as its just regular VBulletin type forum. I'm a moderator over there

Anyway if that isn't your thing but you like chatting with gamers and the like, I also have a shoutmix for gamers from the site to chat. Our site is partnered with an Xbox site called ATC so its a mix from these two users but your welcom to join in, just mention your from MyOpera.com. Preferably though you should join Exiled first to introduce yourself to everyone or ATC if you can get in (they manually validate members so you have to be accepted).

Wow, I've been playing Halo 3 and it's great craic (craic = Irish for fun). If you've not tried it, what's wrong with you?

I bought it and played 15 minutes into the story when my friend called over with a new controller he bought to play Halo 3 (he doesn't own a 360 though ). Anyway so we started playing split screen local game for a while and I beat him each time which made up for it. We then took turns playing online on my Live account. That was all on Wed and I didn't get to play Halo again until today for various reasons (work).

On Saturday, I went to the Xbox Live Gaming Centre (XLGC) in Dublin which was a lot of fun but had its problems. The first being they didn't have Halo 3 and we found this out after turning up which is after the organisers rang to ensure they had it and that our day was booked weeks in advance. The second problem was our booking was booked . Anyway we played COD 3, Halo 2 and Shadowrun instead and we had some competitions for some cheap enough prizes. I got a Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta t-shirt, keyring with light (fancy) and a Flash memory stick 128MB (small but strong, similar to a dog tag I guess). The day was organised by some of the guys at http://www.xbox360exile.com which is a great place to hang out and the owner of the site came by to see how things were going which was cool.

He also thanked me for my articles that I have written for the site. I wrote a couple of articles for the magazine over there which you should all check out and I wrote a review for the game Just Cause for the site.

It's Sunday now and I was playing Halo 3 again today and got a bit into the single player campaign which is very good after you get into it (takes a while to get going). I then played for a bit online with some of the guys from Xbox360-exile.com before my housemates asked me to stop playing so they could watch tv. They've asked me to move my 360 from the living room which is fair enough but it's my HDTV so its coming too because we don't have Sky HD so there is no real point in leaving it down there IMO. I have another 20" which I'll leave downstairs for them. My HDTV is only 32" so it's not that big a step down for them and it is a nice 20" tv which I should really try to sell but I don't want to move my tv and sell that one and upset everyone in the house.

Anyway since I'm moving my 360 upstairs, I'll now need a wireless adapter as the LAN cable I'm using ATM isn't 100 feet long (note some exageration on the cable length required). I'm looking for a cheap one and have put in a bid at ebay and am hoping to get one for about 30 Euro or GBP £21. I've run into an article on how to use your laptops wireless to connect your 360 to Xbox Live so I'll go down that route if I can't get a wireless adapter for 30 Euro or less because its a bloody rip off at retail prices. I got wireless for my laptop for 15 Euro so why the hell would I pay almost 100 quid for the 360's wireless which only lets me play games online when I can do that on Pc along with access the Internet via web browser etc...

Anyway enough ranting and raving, hope anyone that bothers reading this nonsense had a good weekend.

Thought I post something because its been a while. I have the Opera community on my speed dial in Ubuntu Linux but not in windows and I've been using windows lately so sort of forgot about the place

Anyway, so recently I've gone to watch the Bourne Ultimatum. I thought it was a good movie and love the triology but I have to sasy that I thought there was too much shakey camera work in it. You could tell the fight scenes were good but you couldn't see what was going on in them properly. A bit annoying IMO.

I got a new tv for my 360, a 32" LG from Komplett.ie. Only 700 Euro which is a good price for that tv. Great quality now I need to get a VGA cable so I can the 360 to upscale my DVD's for me.

I have setup TVersity folders so now I can stream music/movies/pictures from my laptop to my 360 and it'll do codec conversion on the fly so no changing formats of my entire libraries to suit Microsoft. It rocks!

I got worms for the 360 Live Arcade for 800 Ms points. While the price is higher than I think it should be, the game is good craic and will no doubt give hours of drunken worm killing with friends as I did with the original on Playstation in college.

Friends birthday yesterday so went drinking with him and a few friends . Good craic but my stomach is a little upset with me today for drinking from about 17:30 to 02:30. Oh well, I never liked my stomach anyway.

Good evening, kind sir and thank you for viewing my blog. Tis merely a test entry be this. As such, all it has is a quote from Monty Python's, The Holy Grail.


Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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