When one of my friends mentioned Metallica is going to play in Brisbane. I wasn't quite interested in it at all. Their last couple of albums let down us big time. Trivium took over the place I've had for Metallica for years.

Picking the correct processor when buying a laptop or a desktop machine gets unnecessarily complicated due to marketing campaigns conducted by major CPU manufacturers, not many but Intel. We often try to buy one of the top range processors to be future proof or rather be on the edge, not knowing the requirements or actual usage. This often results being ...

"No one has to tell me when to leave a party", was what Simon Cowell quoted when leaving American Idol. Perhaps it could be the same for Simply Red as they prepare to quit after 25 years long journey with music, another great English band.We're going to witness to an end of one of the greatest soul, ...

We've complained about overheat problems on AMD notebook processors, well now it's all history. With the introduction of their new 'vision platform' processors, I believe they may have just turned the tables. :-)AMD introduced a bunch of multicore processors to prevent a possible extinction from mobile processor market. Looking at the processor specs and what was seen on forums, I ...

I've been watching/following Uruguay since their FIFA 2010 qualifying campaign. They don't have stars.... big names .. media isn't pushing them up the way they do on crappy Brazil team but they play as a single unit. The team spirit is high, the motivation is just there as they inching towards the moment of glory. Two times worldcup champions, I'm ...

I'm in love with Seether again, after listening to "One cold night". Which was missing in my collection. It was an unplugged album carrying tracks primarily off "Disclaimer II" and "Karma and Effect" albums. Besides "One cold night", what made me liking them once again was the work they have done on "careless whisper".They took the most gayest song of ...

I was shocked to hear the latest earthquake took place in Western Australia. We've witnessed many earthquakes and famines in the recent past like never before.. the frequency of such have increased dramatically... raising the alarms .. I'm seeing more and more things which I have already seen in the bible becoming true., in real life. Yes, the end times ...

Last saturday I had to visit "vibrations", (a popular original cd/dvd/blueray store in Sri Lanka) to get couple of cds, some classics to listen during my stay in Sri Lanka. I bought three two cd sets, Byrds, Carpenters (to replace Nishad's cd) and Billy Joel's.Billy Joel has been one of my favorite vocalists. A song writer, vocalist ...

Finally, I managed to buy a pair of Sennheiser IE 6 last week, during my visit to London. I have used many brands from JBL, Shure, Bose, Klipsch and to a few Sennheiser's. I have to admit that, this is one of the best piece of in ear headphones I have ever used up to date.To give ...

I've had used a number of headphones over the last few years. Shure E2C, Bose Triport, Sennheiser CX 300, JBL 501, Sony MDR 71, Sony NC 22 with loads of other brands and models. Only Shure E2C clicked for a while off the above list until I came across Sennheiser CX 95, which is pretty awesome for the price.

People celebrate Christmas on every 25th December. Christmas means the birthday of Jesus Christ, as people call it. But why do these people do shopping for Jesus' birthday ? If they to do, they should buy things for the person who celebrates his birthday, in this case Christ. Why would they buy things for themselves on Jesus' birthday ? what ...

I had to buy new wireless router , since the old one started rebooting each time it drops a connection. I bought Netgear DG834Gv5 for $190 with an additional two year warranty (max speed 54mbps).Sadly I couldn't use it for more than a few days. It stopped working as well. When contacting Netgear support, they asked me to return it ...

last time, when i was in sri lanka (sl), it was april 2009. sadly i couldn't have much fun, for there was a bloody election. and i came to know there had been elections for every 3-4 months. the provincial council elections.instead of hosting them all at once, the government decided (due to some unknown X reason) to host them ...

Time reads as 1400hrs, after hours long delay, all passengers were boarded the plane and it was ready to take off. but it didn't happen as usual, it got further delayed. then the captain broke the silence, almost after two hours since they were boarded. "welcome on board, i'm your captain for today's flight. i'm afraid that i have to ...

End of the road for Argentina ?After all the barking from big mouths with pet talks. Argentina, is now well set and left with ample amount of time to work on 2014 world cup, at this stage. Although there are two more games left to seal their fate, it seems all over for them.It's so heart breaking to see how ...

Then and now.. bit of historyWhen everything was well set for Argentina , the "luck" had something else to say during their bitter 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The penalty shootout favoured the hosts, leaving Argentinians packing. Since then and now, things have changed. .. young blood has pumped into the team. The class of Messi, fireworks from Tevez ...

i'm yet to figure out why, most of my hobbies are bit expensive. photography, traveling and then the latest .. wrist watches and designer cloths :-Dsince i switched from Swatch to Tissot, I was using a Tissot PRC 200 for nearly two years. then suddenly i got this crazy idea that i should have another watch to wear with casual ...

i've heard the death of michael jackson. minutes after he was confirmed dead, via a friend of mine on 26th morning ~ 0700 hrs AEST. i don't think i could call myself as a michael jackson fan or i liked his music, *lately*. i'm more a heavy metal fan, liking Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Hammer Fall etc etc. so ...

"We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory, and if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings."

i can't exactly recall when i first noticed this "loudness war". but i'm pretty sure i noticed this during the first leg of the present decade. well, the "loudness war" means, the record companies increase the level of loudness to sound their records loudly at a lower volume. you might think this is appropriate but this loudness generates nothing but ...