For my first piece of GCSE English coursework we have to write either a short story or do some travel writing. I was thinking of doing some travel writing but setting it in the futre when interplanetary travel is a reality.

What would you do?

I've got two new games M2TW Kingdoms, lots of new total wars for me to wage, and The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay, merges FPS and stealth in a brilliantly satisfying way.

I've also started reading the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy trilogy of five. I'm on the 3rd one so far and it's extremely funny.

I've got a new avatar, look right.

Um... I've started year 10 at school and so far am loving it, all the lessons are great, except for english, 'cos that will always be boring to me.

And that's about it...

Having completed HL2, and just ordered HL2 episode 1, I decided to giveCS:S a go until episode 1 arrives, but because they sent me ep 1 without the piece of paper with the product key on it I couldn't install it, so I've played CS:S for a bit longer. It's a lot different from my other experiances of online FPSs, first of all, it's a lot harder, my first few games were basically me getting shot in the head about 30 seconds after the game started. But watching the pros and generally practicing meant that after about 5 games, I started to get my first kills in. Now I've got to grips with the weapon buying system and the bomb planting and defusingstuff I'm really starting to enjoy the game. And I only got called a N00b once, pretty good going I think...