Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Again With The Heat
Yet another heat wave settles into Toronto for the remainder of the week and I have a sudden urge to nap in the frozen food section of the grocery store every time I pass it by. Nothing of note today except that I cranked Yet Another Article for GameAxis, and I’m [...]
The Obligaory Mastercard Post
Buying a Playstation II: $140Getting a Guitar Hero II Bundle: $90Watching Dave Mustaine, real life Guitar Hero for Megadeath failing Hanger 18 on easy: Priceless.
And for everything else… There’s Mastercard.
They Broke The Internet
Had a minor heart attack when a friend online sent a request to send over some pictures and foolishly, I accepted the file transfer and opened it. It was a virus, but fortunately our Norton Anti-Virus program is up to date and it caught, quarantined and deleted it. Said friend [...]
Mostly There
The computer is up and running as much as it ever will for now. What’s recoverable has been, and the various settings have been tweaked back to former levels thanks to the Wife. Now it’s time to start writin’ stuff on it again…
Recovery Process
Yep, my hard drive died. Without warning, inexplicably.
It’s very odd, because this has already happened to me once before but at that time, the death of the hard drive was a slow thing that gradually crept up on the computer. I received the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death for [...]
A Walk In The Park & Other Things
Today was still a remarkably quiet and boring day by the standards of those whacky citizens we refer to as “kids” but it was still fun. We got an invite from the neighbor who was taking her dogs out for a walk to a nearby forested area [...]
Another Boring Monday
Did some shopping, wrote an article, experienced a twang of disappointment upon finding out a game I’d been looking forward to has been delayed, but Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80’s should be winging it’s way onto my near dead PS2 soon in a matter of days.