Sundry Bits

I've been dealing with a bad cold this past week, which has limited my ability to do much on the Web site (or anything else, for that matter). What's worse is that the nastiest days were Thursday and Friday - both days that I already had off from work. So a vacation day and a company holiday got eaten up by being sick. That blows...

Anyway, the next Chronicle is in development but may be delayed a bit due to this cold. Hopefully I can get it done by next weekend.

I was able to finish Halo 2 earlier this week (since sitting around in front of a TV was something I was capable of). Overall a good game and an improvement over the original. However, the ending really pissed me off, much in the same way the Half-Life 2 ending did. One wonders if Valve or Bungie are familiar with the concept of "closure"? Given the sales numbers for both games (particularly Halo 2), I'm sure that a "#3" is in the works for both, but I don't want to wait two-four years to see how these stories turn out. Seems to me like a case of the marketing department running the show. Or, in the case of Halo 3, having a "AAA title" ready to launch the XBox 2.