Last night I drove a tank across the desert whilst getting attacked. We then went on foot through a town in tunisia killing everyone in our path until we got stuck. We stole another tank and tried to escape but McGregor struggled with the controls and kept stalling the damn thing! Then we got blown out of it and were attacked by airplanes!!!

Help me!

Seriously though, Call of Duty 2 is one of the best first-person shooters I’ve played in a long time! And whoever says that Mac’s aren’t good for gaming is a dirty filthy lying whore who’s working from 10 year old information. I’m so glad I got this game. There’s nothing like walking through a trench only to hear someone shout “TANKS! GET DOWN!!!” and for you to panic and immediately duck and watch about 10 tanks fly over your head! That scene is in the trailer which you can see at the Apple Game Trailers website.

Apple should hire me. No seriously, they should. Yesterday I explained to the media department at the school I work at about the benefits of GarageBand 3 to create Radio News Shows as part of the media course. Then today I gave a demonstration of GarageBand as well as iMovie HD 6 and they were blown away. Two students then got a little preview and within 5 minutes they were both saying how badly they were wanting a mac and that they were going to go home and try and get their parents to go to the Apple Store in Manchester in an attempt to convince them into buying one. So I helped them along with a bit of advice such as if they’re parents throw “But we’re used to Windows” at them, then they’re to respond with “But you can install Windows on a Mac aswell as having Mac OS X at the same time, making Apple Macs the only computer you’ll ever need.”

Yeah, it doesn’t take me long to make people want to switch. But then again, it doesn’t take much anyway because they are jaw-dropping examples of insanely great design.

I’m still at work as I write this and I’m kinda sleepy. But what’s keeping me awake and happy is that in less than 24 hours I have managed to encourage the Media department to switch from using PCs-only and to take their iBook G4s out of the storage cubboard (as they’ve never been used before) and to do absolutely everything on them. One teacher even described what I’d shown her as “the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life”.

Yeah, iRock!

I’m going to take Steve in next week to use to demo a lot of things such as how to make podcasts with GarageBand (basically how I make ‘The Choad Show‘) amongst a couple of other things.

It’s going to be insanely great.

But before all that, waaaaaaaay before all that is my birthday. Those of you paying attention in Episode 2 or 3 of the show (obviously I’ve not been paying enough attention to it) I mentioned my birthday which is June 25th. Which is this sunday. I shall be turning 23 on Sunday and whilst that’s good news for me, it also means that there’s not going to be an Episode 5 out this week of The Choad Show. Unfortunately Dave is away on Saturday so we can’t record it then and I’m away on my birthday so we can’t record it then either. However, to make up for it we have been planning regular sketches (like you find on comedy sketch shows like The Fast Show, Harry Enfield and Chums, etc) and we’re hoping that the first one should be in Episode 5 (when we’d originally planned it for Episode 6).

Anyways, I like it when you’re listening to music and somebody gets killed by an antelope with an attitude problem. That’s always kinda cool.

I want to go home. And kill nazis. With a fork. I wish Call of Duty 2 came with forks. Maybe it was so that on multiplayer games people wouldn’t go fork themselves? Or each other. Hence the whole “multiplayer” thing. That could be their multiplayer advertising campain;

“Go fork yourself, fork a friend, or even fork your dog! You can fork just about anything with nipples! Who do you want to go fork today?”

They shouldn’t let me out in public….

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