Sorry for the late start. A nap lasted longer than expected, and with the Australian Open airing in the middle of the night, the schedule has been thrown off a bit.

The weekend was great, with lots of good food, spectacular views, and lots of TV watching.

Haven't caught "The Green Hornet" yet, but we might see that in a few days, or perhaps we'll save our efforts for Your Highness. In the meantime, we watched Chuck, NCIS, Brotherhood, and Pirate Radio (lots of awesome classic rock music).

A lot of new titles are scheduled for March, but tomorrow, we'll get a chance to play Dead Space 2, and I truly enjoyed the first installment, so I'll check out the PC version at the first opportunity.

Yesterday was a fun day. We've been hanging out with Ricky, our webdev guru, and our second restaurant visit on Dine About Town was awesome. The view of the Pacific Ocean was nice, and the sea was a little less rough than we had hoped, but spectacular nonetheless.

While holding our fat bellies of food, we watched some old episodes of Top Gear, QI, and got caught up on a few weeks worth of The Event.

Later today, we are dropping Ricky off at the airport, but not before we stop at In & Out for an early lunch, animal style!

Our first outing for this year's Dine About Town was successful. We went to a nice French restaurant and had a great time and excellent food. Later today we're going on our second excursion, and while we usually go out for dinner, we'll be having a late lunch instead because the place we're going to is set on a cliff with an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean.

When we weren't gorging ourselves yesterday, we watched a few episodes of Jekyll, a British miniseries about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and some Australian Open where our favorite Kim Clijsters has moved on to the final 16.

It's almost the weekend again! It can't get here soon enough. For some reason, I've been rather tired all week. Come to think of it, I haven't been in my groove since the holidays ended. Maybe I need a vacation ...

Tonight and tomorrow, we have dinner plans with a few friends, as we are participating in the annual dine about town, where we check out a few restaurants that offer their menus at a sharply reduced price.

Once we are sufficiently stuffed with food for two days, we might try to see The Green Hornet again. Speaking of watching, we checked out the newest episodes of House, Hawaii Five-0, No Ordinary Family, and Blue Bloods.

The sickness seems to be going around these days. Some of our friends have it, and now my wife also has the sniffles. Usually, I'm not prone to catching other people's cooties, so let's hope I keep a clean track record.

In our circle of friends, it's quite known that Wednesday is homemade taco night. We've been doing it for the past 10 years, and they taste just as delicious as ever. The weird thing is that people always happen to show up around dinnertime, and they never decline when asked if they want to stay and join us.

I finally managed to check out Eve Online, and man, does that game have a steep learning curve! It took me a few hours just to figure out how to get out of the tutorial and actually do some newbie missions. Rest assured that there was a lot of cursing involved, and if it weren't for some of my Vent buddies to guide me through it, I'd have already uninstalled it.

It's going to short and sweet. I'm tired and need a nap, and yes, there was wine involved.

It came as a rather pleasant surprise yesterday morning that it was actually a holiday, MLK Jr. Day, which then also explains why it was quiet on the news front.

On the other hand, it gave us plenty of time to catch up on some TV stuff, so we watched Human Target, QI, The Cape, and a few episodes of No Ordinary Family.

We also decided to try out Mad Men, since it has been receiving so much praise, but two episodes in, we can't understand why. We'll give it one more try, but unless some magic happens, I don't think we'll bother with it any further.

We pretty much did what we'd set out to do yesterday: nothing.

We watched NCIS, Mad Men, Smallville, Human Target and a stand-up comedy bit from Louis CK, which was totally hilarious and so, so politically incorrect.

While the holidays have been over, we finally finished off the last of our New Year's dinner leftovers, and tomorrow we will be stripping down the Christmas tree and bid it adieu.

Last night was also the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, and The Social Network seems to be the big winner, so it'll be interesting to see how well it does at the Oscars.

Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. We managed to do a whole lot of nothing, just the way we like it, and it's pretty much the same thing that we have planned for today. We did visit some friends to celebrate their daughter's one-month celebration.

If we feel like it, we might make another attempt at seeing The Green Hornet, but we also have a few Netflix movies lying around, Three Kingdoms and True Romance. If all else fails, I've been jonesing to see the new TV series, The Cape.

Last night, we wanted to see "The Green Hornet," but amazingly enough, both showings in the time frame we wanted were sold out, so we opted for checking out The Dilemma instead.

No other serious plans for the weekend. We have some family party to attend, the usual groceries and then we'll just lounge about and watch our DVR.

If I get up the courage, I might even gut my work computer and do the much-needed upgrades I've been lazy about doing, but with all the parts lying around, it's a bit daunting.

There was a disturbance in the force yesterday. As I attempted to write the MOTD, me eyelids got really heavy, and the very next thing I was engulfed in a darkness that didn't pass until this morning. It's the weirdest thing ....

Yesterday, we watched Going The Distance, a romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (the Mac guy), and since my wife and I did that a good decade ago, we enjoyed it greatly.

I also checked out the new trailers for the upcoming Priest and Battle: Los Angeles, both on our to-watch list for sure!

No major plans this weekend, apart from going to the movies (I'm sensing a theme here) tonight to see The Green Hornet.

Sony got itself in a pickle yesterday. The hacker renowned for jail-breaking the iPhone managed to figure out the the security key that Sony is using for its PS3 authentication. This also turns out to be the sole key for all code signing, games and PSN — the whole nine yards. Now people can make their own homebrew software and sign it, and the PS3 will accept it as legit. Obviously the first thought that comes to mind would be for them to change the key, but that would render all old titles incompatible. Sony issued a cease and desist order to the hacker but managed to foul that up by not signing all the documents, so none of it has any legal standing. By filing paperwork in court, Sony then also listed all security keys, making them a matter of the public record. Way to go ...

A Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science professor exercised his free speech and put up a mirror of the entire ordeal, daring Sony to take action.

For all the APB players out there, there's some good news. GamersFirst is going to preserve the characters and accounts, so former players will be able to pick up where they left off. For those wondering if the free-to-play APB: Reloaded will be compatible with the original game, the revamped version will most likely be patchable. That all sounds good. Now we only need to see the game!

It's already mid-week. I have no idea what our plans are for the weekend, but I'm looking forward to it already. Doing nothing is one of my favorite past times. We've got quite a bit of DVR/AppleTV to watch, so we won't be bored.

CES is over, and preparations are already beginning for GDC. Even E3 has begun accepting registrations. Here we go again...

This weekend, we'll officially end the holidays by getting rid of our Christmas tree, even though it is still in remarkably good shape. It's served its purpose, and we need the living room space back.

We planned on watching the series premiere of "The Cape," but it was a 2-hour episode, so we instead opted for the season opener of "V" instead.

Richard "Dick" Winters, the Easy Company commander whose World War II exploits were made famous by the book and TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," died last week at the age of 92. He had asked that news of his death be withheld until after the funeral. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

The weekend was quite fun with friends stopping by for a new year's visit, lots of food, an equal amount of relaxing, watching movies (Super Size Me and Easy A), playing some video games and just lounging about.

Quite a bit of alcohol consumed over the past few days, and while we'll be on bread & water for the rest of the week, next weekend our friend Paul is flying in from Wisconsin, whom we haven't seen in quite a few months. He also happens to be a beer fan. Trouble ahead!

Next weekend, we may see Season of the Witch or The Green Hornet, or maybe both. Not quite sure yet.

We had a few friends drop by last night, so we whipped up some food. A few bottles of wine later, we booted them out the door and the snooze fest started. That pretty much sums up our evening ...

Prior to that, we did some errands, watched Killers (average action/comedy movie with Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck, and Katherine Heigl) and bummed around the house for rest of the day — pretty much what we're about to do now.

I watched "The Road" in three segments, but I managed to finish it. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, but it lacked much of a story. It's set in postapocalyptic times, and you wonder who and what caused it, but like the book that it's based on, that's never explained. Oh well ....

Made an emergency trip to my least favorite place, the dentist's office, but luckily, he was able to spackle me up and send me on my way. The tooth feels better than it did this morning, and that's definitely a relief!

Apologies for the late start, but I fell asleep while watching "The Road" and then woke up in the middle of the night with a piercing toothache. Not sure whether the two are related ...

This weekend, I'm going to try and find time to piece together my second PC. There are parts all over my office floor, and it's starting to get annoying because I have to shove them aside all the time. It's a good excuse as any to get it over with, I'd say. It'll take some doing, though, because I've noticed that most cases expect the motherboard to be on the right side, but this case, oddly, expects it to be on the left. Maybe I'll have to buy a new PC case ...

Our DC Universe Online contest is over, as the closed beta ended last night with a "Battle of the Legends" event. While the access was a bit limited due to the late arrival of the codes, I hope the winners had a good time. We'll be having a new giveaway coming up shortly. Who doesn't like more free games, right?!

I've been browsing for some new music on iTunes and got some nice stuff from Yngwie Malmsteen, The Damned Things (Fall Out Boy and Anthrax members) and Killing Joke (I get all their stuff because I LOVE their "Love Like Blood" song).

Later today, I'm going to watch The Road, which I've been wanting to see for a while, but since the reviews were quite horrible, I did not pick it up until now. Wish me luck!

The new year has barely started, and we're already getting into convention mode. First off, there's the more technology-oriented CES in Las Vegas, and then we can start looking forward to our yearly E3 bash in Los Angeles.

Not much else has happened over the past few days. Watched an episode of Castle and waiting for The Road to arrive, even though feedback on that one has been not so positive. Maybe later today, I'll dig into my massive backlog of Criminal Minds. I have about an entire season saved up on the DVR.

Game-wise, I've been defending my parish in Stronghold Kingdoms and trying to familiarize myself with the workings of Genesis A.D.