Practically perfect in every way

No, it's not Mary Poppins. It's... Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. The game that I've burbled on about wanting to buy, and which I've finally picked up on ebay. I'm over a year late in picking up this game, and to be honest I've been quite remiss in letting it pass me by. I'm not going to go into great detail about it, because as far as I know, there aren't many gamers in my (small) readership, and any among you have probably already heard about this game. Suffice to say, this game is a masterpiece. The graphics, the puzzles, the story, the combat... it's all brilliant - utterly superb. If there are any niggles, it's with the camera position and the controls, but I'm prepared to overlook these minor issues for a game with fiendishly clever puzzles, and that allows me to fight 4 enemies at once with a big hulking sword then rewind time with a magic dagger when I screw it up.

Anyway.

I went shopping on Saturday to spend a bit of my birthday cash, and picked up the Blink 182 and Franz Ferdinand albums. I'd previously ripped the Franz Ferdinand album (though I'm now making restitution for my copyright infringing ways, hence actually buying the CD) so I've heard that, but the Blink album will be new to me. I'm looking forward to it, especially after the recent news that they've split up for now. I also got X-Men and X-Men 2 on DVD. Nice. Looking forward to X-Men 3, but that's not due out till 2006. Oh well.

I need some new shoes sometime soon. My current trainers are disintegrating on my feet as I type. When I was in town, I found out that you can get shoes from a company called No Sweat that guarantees fair pay and treatment for their workers, much like Fair Trade does for food producers. I'm all for that, so I think I'll be picking up a pair next week.