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Game Review: Star Trek Online

Games

By Jason Ellis

Game Review: Star Trek Online

Here's my righteous opinion on the the first 15 levels of fed play and the first 12 or so of Klingon.. I only really have 2 major complaints....

PVP and Star Trek Online

Games

By Jason Ellis

PVP and Star Trek Online

Firstly, I was really worried when I found out the end game for STO would be PVP-centric.  That just doesn't really work normally for any number of reasons which I wont go into just yet.....

Hardware Review: Nexus One

Technology

By Jason Ellis

Hardware Review: Nexus One

I was tired of my original iPhone and that would be getting the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 when it came out some time later this...

Buy gold!!! (Just not right now.. )

Money

By Jason Ellis

Buy gold!!! (Just not right now.. )

So there are a lot of people, some famous, trying to get you to buy gold..  While I was in the car dealership the other...

Play the radio 2

Hobbies

By Jason Ellis

Play the radio 2

So I had said previously that my musical talent ended pretty much at the ability to play the radio, and that I hated that..  I...

In Brief

Hardware Review: Lightscribe CD/DVD Burners

Technology

By Jason Ellis

Hardware Review: Lightscribe CD/DVD Burners

Back in 2004 Hewlett-Packard engineer Daryl Anderson had the notion that if you can burn data on to a disc, why couldn't use use that...

Game Review: Dragon Age - Origins

Games

By Jason Ellis

Game Review: Dragon Age - Origins

I ask you -- can Bioware do no wrong?  Every game of theirs that I have played, I have loved.  Neverwinter Nights was kinda "Feh"...

Xperia X10: My next phone?

Technology

By Jason Ellis

Xperia X10: My next phone?

On June 27th, 2007 (shortly after I got married) the iPhone came out.. I sort of waffled back and forth as to whether or not...

Happy Halloween 2009

About Me

By Jason Ellis

Happy Halloween 2009

The annual Halloween bash that my friend and his wife put on was a success!   Every year my friend Calvin and his wife go NUTS...

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