At lunch time at the same time as picking up some Thai, I grabbed a game from the local pawn shop for my XBox. I grabbed a copy of ‘Midtown Madness 3’ which has to be one of the coolest video games I have played in a while (actually since I do not play many video games this is not surprising). This game is set in Washington DC or Paris, and you get to drive your car anywhere… And it just keeps going – at least in the practice version. Straight up the stairs on the Lincoln memorial, burnouts on the mall, hooning past the whitehouse. All the things I would NEVER do in real life.

I can see why people love the XBox. I think I love it, although I have better things to do with my time than playing games. When I have a chance I need to work out how to access files over the nextwork [Accessing my Laptop is no problem – I worked that one out. Works really well].

And when I am not playing I do have real work to do – I am trying to bring myself up to speed being a conduit between a client and some programmers who have some knowledge that most people assume I have anyway. I guess I must be good at hiding it. Anyway being a technologist it is sometimes hard to work out what a client wants and what is feasable. And then there are the commercial considerations… How much will they pay, and how much will I need to pay out. Oh, the joys of business.