Folks, be warned, if you play wii for the first time. YOU WILL KILL YOUR LIMBS.

Though saying that, I hardly worked out and did any upper body exercises, so I kinda had it coming. My whole body was sore from playing wii haha. The strange thing was that it all came lingering in action on the day after I bought the wii rather the next day. I really shouldnt swing my arms that madly when I play bowling or whatever haha.

I managed to get myself wiiplay with an extra wiimote. I played wii play with my mum a bit and she got slightly addicted to it and all.

Thats right, Wii for free. One of my challenges was to get a wii for a free. How would one do that? By using existing vouchers and selling games that I no longer play. Now I did spend money on these games I’ve sold. But all of them followed a strict criteria before being sold. The main one being the fact that I’ve completed the game, juiced everything you could do with it and that it’s simply left to collect dust. Might as well use it to buy a wii.

Selling games was pretty easy, GAME were selling certain games for £20 so I managed to make about £90 with 5 games. I did a few extra game sellage and I got my £164 worth of vouchers. The remaining was done through CEX.

My second problem was the availability of wii’s. They are STILL rare to purchase. As soon as they are in stock, they are sold out. This meant I had to find a clever way of buying these beauties. I viewed a few online sites to check the availability and stories on how people got their wii’s. I eventually found out that GAME do stock wii’s one a week and that they are purchased in a first come first serve basis. So the trick is to phone up every day until they have stock. It took me several days to finally get some stock. As soon as that day arrived, I was at GAME at 9.30 something ready to buy the damn thing. At first they said they DO have stock but its still waiting to be delivered, they told me to write my name on a list and that they’ll phone me up when its ready on that day.

I managed to find a Cafe Nerro and just sat there playing Trauma Center. Eventually I got a phone call saying my Wii was ready. I rushed into GAME and BAM, was a proud owner of a wii.

It was the most exciting thing ever, and the best thing was that I didnt pay any money for it haha. I felt very spoilt then hehe.

Above are some wii photos. Its far too exciting getting it set up and all, but eventually I calmed down and go down to some playing, Mii making and Wii sporting.

Some things I needed still were; another wiimote, some more games, an SD card, nunchuck and a component cable.

Wii Sports is amazing, although they’re only tech demos that came free with the wii, it was still nonetheless an awesome game. The innovation behind the wiimote was amazing. Its definitely a fresh and exciting idea of controlling stuff. Wii sports was highly addictive, I think I went nuts at it the whole day. You eventually get more subdued to the fact that you dont need to swing the wiimote excessively (unless you are determined to be in wiihaveaproblem.com)

Overall I was very impressed and happy with my purchase, it was even more satisfying getting the thing for free :D.

Managed to update the wordpress software to 2.1, the admin panel is alot nicer and has some additional ajax looking features. It includes a visual and code tab which is good for editing stuff via code or via the rich editor. Hopefully they’ll implement tagging for 2.2, seems like the obvious path to take and all.
Not only that, I’ve sorted out some of the backgrounds of the blog so its slightly prettier.

Just started using a new browser called Flock. Its a social web browser. It is nicely integrated with a few popular services such as flickr, blogs as well as social tagging sites. Anyway, here’s a snippet of what it is

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

Flock — the social web browser

And I used Flock to do the above, so its pretty cool in terms of quoting other websites with ease. Not to mention dragging random photos and all like my recent photo

So yeah, pretty good atm, will continue to use it.

Today my DS Lite Browser arrived (as well as a compact flash card reader for my laptop). It came with both the DS card as well as a GBA cart for you to store some additional data into (such as cookies and favorites etc).

The browser is pretty decent, it uses Opera software and connects via Nintendo’s usual connection methods for when you want to get some wifi action. The interface itself is pretty good. It definitely takes some time getting used to. You can either use the handwriting mode or the keyboard mode to type stuff, I think I prefer the keyboard mode for now since its difficult for the software to recognise my B’s, it always confuses it as O’s or something else.

Loading is a bit tedious, but I guess it’s better then using your mobile phone or whatever when you’re out and about.