Andy Wood

This reminds me of those commercials on TV about foot fungus:

Bill Harris has this to say about how the software transition was going take place. He checked the EB Games website and did a tally of all Xbox and Xbox 360 games listed. Take a look at all games listed for future release:

————May—June—July—Aug—Sep—Oct—Nov—Dec—2007+–Tot
Xbox360—-2——10—–5——-8——3——11——6—–0——-40——85
Xbox———6——-8—–4——-5——5——-3——0—–0——–0——-31

Publishers will shift almost all of these dates, so it’s far from an exact picture. There’s plenty of water there, though, to at least sense the tide. 45 Xbox 360 games are scheduled for release before the end of the year, but only 31 Xbox titles. Almost half of that 31 will be shipping by the end of June. After that, the 360 titles are listed in a 2-1 ratio for the end of the year.

In other words, in about two months, the transition from Xbox to Xbox 360 is essentially over.

2007? You can see for yourself. 40 titles listed for the 360. Zero listed for the Xbox. Again, that doesn’t mean that absolutely nothing will come out for the original Xbox next year, but even with a few additions, game releases for the Xbox are going to be very scarce.

I warned/told you about this a little while ago and it would seem that this has now gone gold and will be available for the June 1st purchase.

More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country’s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.

The castle, worth an estimated $25 million (19.6 million euros), was owned by the late Queen Marie and bequeathed to her daughter Princess Ileana in 1938. It was confiscated by communists in 1948 and fell into disrepair.

It was inherited by Dominic van Hapsburg, a New York architect who will be at the ceremony on Friday, said Iorgulescu. The Hapsburgs ruled Romania for a period starting in the late 17th century. Under the agreement, the owner will not be allowed to make any changes to the castle for the next three years, Iorgulescu said.

Restoration work began in the late 1980s and was partially completed in 1993. It is now one of Romania’s top tourist destinations.

While known and marketed as “Dracula’s Castle,” the Bran Castle never belonged to Prince Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula character, but the prince is thought to have visited the medieval fortress.

The Gothic fortress, perched on a rock, has appeared in numerous Dracula movies.

I am curious just how much it costs to heat a place like that, if you wanna read more about this, check out the cnn link.

UNO® is the classic party card game that’s number one for family fun! Compete against three other players to match colors and symbols, go Wild with special command cards such as Skip and Reverse, and be the first to play all your cards.

Even though I was getting my tail kicked by the computer players.  It was refreshing, fun and there was no swearing at all.