So, I’ve been back at University for one full week, already dealt with a small electrical fire, pumped out more than 7,000 words (of 4,500 required) and taught some youngsters how to tackled that tricky old InDesign programme. But guess what, after the eight-hour, 400-mile journey that my folks and I made over a week ago… I have a fortnight off!
Whoever decided that we wouldn’t want a five-week Christmas holiday (easily achievable if we just started a week earlier) is a numpty. However, it does provide me with an interesting …

2008 is probably not going to go down as one of Nintendo’s best years. At least, not in the eyes of those going by the label of “core gamer”. While the Wii and DS sell like the proverbial hotcakes, two very casual releases (Wii Fit and Music), a lackluster E3 and no big Christmas hitter saw the company coming under fire from the hardcore elites.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t spent the vast majority of this year up to my neck in gaming, but I’m looking in on the games of …

With Amy and me opening up the 200-mile gap that frequently splits us for hopefully the last time, I found myself in that now annual tradition of the misty-eyed haze where I reflect on the passing year and wonder what the heck the next 365 days have in store for me. It’s a bit later than planned, and it’s going to be a melodramatic post, as I type in the words “biggest year of my life so far”.

Anyone who tuned into constantly-abbreviated.com over the past six months will have noticed a ridiculously tiddly post count from yours truly, with the few posts that were present being piss-poor excuses and promises to “post again real soon”.
Well, as is now customary since I first came up with the idea of ConAb back in Easter of 2004, a New Year means a new start for the project and more high hopes which I expect to be brought brutally back down to earth by January 4th…