After a major struggle trying to download the closed beta (all of the download sources were getting hammered) I have finally got the Battlefield Bad Company 2 closed beta installed. Wish I could say what I thought about the game because right now I’m getting flashbacks of the XBLA release of Battlefield 1943 last summer.

Like Battlefield 1943 you cannot get into a game at the moment possibly due to load. And there’s also a notice that’s gone up from EA telling us not to use the server browser for now. The reason being that it crashes you to desktop, eep! But their workaround ‘use the Play Now’ button is also not getting me much further.

I think I may be calling it a night soon, haha!

I reinstated the old router and now my latency readings look normal. There’s still the odd spike here and there but it’s not bad enough to affect audio playback and doesn’t occur on every webpage.

If you encounter similar problems the checker can be downloaded from here.

Over the last few days when using itunes there will be some severe crackling occurring in the audio whenever I load a webpage. At first I thought it was an issue with the soundcard driver so I uninstalled the drivers and re-installed them to see how it went. At first it seemed ok, but the crackle eventually made it’s way back.

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Remember these? I’ve got another prescription from them, once again I needed to come home from work and get a Doctor’s appointment due to another urinary tract issue resulting in abdominal pains on the left side.

I made it to my appointment at 11:30 and found myself in the waiting room for an hour and a quarter, during this time the pain was getting pretty intense to the point that I didn’t know whether to sit or stand because I just could get comfortable. (Last time this happened I couldn’t keep still, I eventually had to try to go to bed.) The annoying part was that roughly 2-3 minutes before the Doctor called me in all of the pain stopped dead. I explained all of this to her and now I’ve got more antibiotics and I’ll be sent a Hospital letter to get my kidneys scanned. The Doctor reckons I’ve got a stone or two that keep moving.

But we’ll see…

Ok, I’m a few days late in posting this but who cares! I ordered myself a Fujifilm Finepix S2000 HD camera a week ago on Thursday from Amazon. I selected first class as my delivery option and got an estimated delivery date of the 16th January. The following day I got an email saying it was dispatched, but on the 16th it didn’t arrive. The same went for the 18th, 19th and well you know how it goes.

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