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Call of Duty 5: World at War Screenshots

10. July 2008

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Well some more Call of Duty 5: World at War screenshots have trickled out for your viewing pleasure. Definitely looks Call-of-Duty-ish to me; good graphics, heavily scripted/cinematic sequences/etc. For those that want to get caught up, we’ve covered Call of Duty 5 before, it’s the World War II shooter developed by Treyarch (not Infinity Ward, who [...]

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Rock Band 2 Guitar and Screenshots How Does it Compare to Guitar Hero: World Tour?

10. July 2008

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Staying on-top of the Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero: World Tour craze is hard business. First we find out that Guitar Hero: World Tour will have all sorts of sexy Guitar enhancements, wireless drums and song-creation features! Then we get a peek at the Guitar Hero: World Tour artist and song list… looking hot, but [...]

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RedHat Pushes Up Sun Schedule, Java Fragmentation Begins

23. June 2008

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If you didn’t see it, RedHat announced earlier this week that their completely Open Source Java implementation (IcedTea) had finally passed the Java Test Compatability Kit (TCK). While most folks rejoiced, I think there were a fair number of us that sighed and thought: Goddamnit, here’s the beginning of the Java fragmentation. Or if that not, were [...]

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No Child Left Behind, Maybe the Opposite of Awesome?

19. June 2008

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I basically tried to find a reason to post the picture above, and this story was exactly that reason.

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UK’s First Food Navigation Device with Good Recommendations

13. June 2008

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Not a half-bad idea that is for the UK folks out there. RoadTour has partnered up with Harden (restaurant reviews) to give real-time (and accurate) real-time GPS-based navigation to good dining around your current location. You out and about in London and hungry for some Fish and Chips? Pop open the “foodie-Nav” and type in what [...]

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What Does a $500 Pet Feeder Look Like?

3. June 2008

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I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the $3.99 “Galvanized 5 Quart Pet Feeder” you see on your left there… no sir-ree, it’s built like a Italian sports car, can impregnate most house hold pets oh yea… and feeds them: Click to read about the Perfect Petfeeder

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PS3 Adds YouTube In-Game Video Uploading

29. May 2008

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This is awesome news over on the YouTube Blog sent in by Ted Regulski. It looks like Sony has partnered with YouTube/Google to include game-video upload capabilities into the PS3 that any game title can take advantage of. The APIs enhancements will be available to all PS3 developers to take advantage of and will seamlessly upload [...]

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New Site Redesign Launched!

24. May 2008

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Well it’s been years but we finally made the move to a new site design, we hope you like it. Here’s a quick breakdown of the goodies available now with the new layout: Besides the improved look we also rolled out optimizations across the site design itself so it should load much faster for most folks. Another [...]

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Happy New Year!

1. January 2008

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Well it’s 2008 and we are all still here. If you want to post with what your New Year’s resolution was I’d be thankful. Mine is to “live in the now”… which means more than it sounds like. Check out “The Power of Now” for an excellent book that discusses living “in the now”.

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Merry Christmas!

25. December 2007

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Merry Christmas you Beautiful People! I hope today is a blast for everyone. If you have family in town, have a good time together. If you get exactly the gift you wanted for Christmas, be sure to smother the person (or persons) that got it for you with praise. Have a great holiday!

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New Sections: Reviews and Guides

16. November 2007

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Woohoo! The “Break it Down” Blog is proud to introduce the two newest sections of the site: Reviews Guides The Reviews section of the site is focused on the different product reviews (games, movies, consoles, toaster ovens, whatever we want!) we do. The Guides section is focused more on long-winded guides that teach you how to do something; [...]

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Moving Blog!

1. November 2007

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Please bear with us while we move our hosting from MediaTemple to RimuHosting. The pictures to the blog may be offline for about a day but then come back online later. Also we are aware of the rendering issues with IE, have no idea why they are occurring (site looks fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, [...]

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Break it Down Blog Upgrades

2. May 2007

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Some of you may have run into some hickups accessing the site over the last day or so, sorry about that. I moved my hosting off of GoDaddy and onto Media Temple on their Grid Server Plan which is absolutely phenomenal so far. I got fed up with GoDaddy for a few reasons: The management interface is [...]

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New Theme

31. March 2007

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Ok so Breakitdownblog got a new theme thanks to N.Design Studio. Hopefully it makes things a bit easier on the eyes for all of us.

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OMG The Holidays are Almost Over

26. December 2006

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Each year the holidays are a series of flights, car rides, family parties and just all around tons of fun, but an surprising amount of stress as well. I think every year except one, when my wife and I have done the Christmas shuffle trying to see all the families in all 3 states we’ve [...]

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The Week of Truth

16. October 2006

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Well this week it is… this is the week that everything for the home theater is slated for delivery. My wife and I have been breaking our backs on the house getting it ready and last night we reached the 98% completion point and are wrapping up on a few things today, maybe a total [...]

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