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I just got a copy of the latest release in the Unreal Tournament tradition. I got it the day it became available and put in at least 4 hours playing it already.

Yeah, yeah, I know it usually has another name but I try to keep things clean around here. Anyway. Here's everything I can think of that really ticks me off. Trust me, you don't wanna be on this list. No particular order, and I'm sure it'll keep growing.

Just like I started keeping track of countries I've been to, now I am keeping track of states I have been to in the United States. Found a neat little map on World66 which allows me to highlight the states I've been to.

The movie Pulp Fiction has a ton of great scenes. One of my favorites is when Vincent takes Mia to the restaurant and she orders a special milkshake:

This is one dark book. This is the third book in the Prey series by John Sandford. I really enjoy reading this series (there are 14 books in the series now) and watching the development of the Lucas Davenport character. In this book, Sandford introduces the Michael Bekker villain. He is the darkest and freakiest serial murderer I've read about in a long time. This book drains you when you read it as it takes a lot to steel yourself against the evil in Bekker's personality. Davenport has a tough time in this book and you feel it right along with him. I was going to go right into the fourth book but my mind needs a rest.

I've decided to start keeping track of the countries I've been to before I forget them. The number after the country name is the number of times I've been there. If there is an asterisk (*) then I've only been in the country during transit, i.e. on the way to another country and thus I've only seen the airport.

Having spent months of my life in Europe while travelling in the last few years, I have compiled a list of differences that an American will find interesting. I'm not sure that all of these are present in every European country but all were present on my recent trip to Austria.

People who know me know I basically never watch TV. Don't have time. Work my 40-45 hours, come home, then it's Narrative all night or working out. Sometimes I'll flip on the TV over dinner though.

Ever since I started writing .NET code, I've been irritated that there seemed to be no way to programmatically set the TITLE tag of a web page from the code-behind. Certainly you can do things like

The news that every Best Western hotels in the US will have free wireless is awesome! I became a Best Western fan when Ahu and I were travelling through Europe on our honeymoon. We could pretty much count on finding a BW in almost every city we went and could rely on the quality being relatively good in each one. The fact that they are offering free WiFi now makes it a good choice for us in the US as well. I am hoping that this will encourage other hotels to provide similar service and pricing. Nothing I hate more than going to a hotel and having to pay a $10 or more daily free for Internet access.