Author Archive: Pete

By day I work in IT as an infrastructure manager, specialising in Microsoft technologies, primarily Windows and Exchange Server.

On here I write about my passions, movies, videogames, technology and particularly the world of high definition.

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Bizarre Examination Day

Bizarre Examination Day

| July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

For the last couple of weeks I have been studying for the Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Configuring (70-653)  exam.  It has been over a year since I ploughed through a mammoth pile of them to gain my MCSE, MCSA, MCTS and MCITP qualifications, and I decided the time was right to start again. I [...]

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My Weekend in Pictures

My Weekend in Pictures

| July 5, 2009 | 0 Comments

Weddings!  Nobody likes looking at other peoples wedding photos do they?  No they do not, and given that we have been to one for Sally’s nephew this weekend in a very deep and not particularly dark part of Somerset I shall keep this one brief.  We had a great time.  That is all.  Here are [...]

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Transformers Gives Me Food For Thought

Transformers Gives Me Food For Thought

| June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments

A short while ago I wrote a post entitled Death of the Cinema, where I talked about how the movie going experience has been somehwat lost to me recently.  Rising ticket costs and the fact that the sound and picture quality, combined with the fact I have to do at least a forty mile round [...]

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Out on Poole Quay

Out on Poole Quay

| June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments

We went to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yesterday afternoon, but beforehand we took a trip into Poole.  We tend not to come over to this part of town that often now, I try and avoid it at the weekends after coming to this area each day for work. I’ve taken snaps of Poole [...]

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Blu-ray Review: Punisher: War Zone

Blu-ray Review: Punisher: War Zone

| June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

Released back in 2004, the first Punisher was very much a Marvel property given a cautious outing.  The budget was relatively low by both comic adaptation and Hollywood standards, and while it wasn’t a particularly great movie (you can read my review of the very shoddy UK Blu-ray release here) it had its moments.  Particularly [...]

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