Well... as I was clearing up some emails on hotmail (yes, I still use old school hotmail) I saw a notice on TrueAchivements for my XBOX Story; basically a Year-in-review, but for the entire duration of my xbox use, starting with the 360 which tracked achivements.I don't remember if I've shared this in the past, so sharing (again?) while it's fresh in my mind. The numbers are clearly off. 

During the winter break I picked up "The Matrix: Path of Neo" for the PS2. The PS2 is a generation of consoles that I totally missed.  I remember playing the PS1 at friend's houses, then those friends went to Sega's Dreamcast for the subsequent generation of consoles, so the PS2 is a total mystery to me.  Since this game isn't backward compatible on the xbox (it also shipped on the OG xbox),

Just before I finished my vacation last week, and needed to get back to work, I finished this lil' game.  I started this back in August. I started this because I thought it would be a game I could jump in and out of during a very (very very very very) busy term, but in reality I didn't have much of a chance to play around with it too much. Much of my play through happened during the Thanksgiving

Over the last few years, I've been looking for older sci-fi shows  to watch. This is was a short (13 episode) quirky buddy-cop/sidekick series. Automan is short for "Automatic Man."  One of the series protagonists, Walter Nebicher, creates an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program that generates a hologram (Automan) able to leave the computer world at night and fight

Alright, so it seems like Reddit isn't doing a recapped this year or at least nothing has been announced.  Someone has created a Reddit Wrapped where you provide your public username and they produce something with Generative AI, so you know it's all made up, but what the hey - let's have a laugh!I almost spit my coffee out with this roast 😂: You own a 23-year collection of obsolete mobile

 Bluesky hasn't done an official wrap-up this year (did they last year?), but - as one might predict - someone on the internet has.  So, plugging in my public profile information, here's what I got fromI am not sure how accurate this is, but I don't know what to make of these stats... 🧐

Next up in my 2025 Year In Review roundup, is xbox.  Again, this year, Microsoft didn't do anything official (boooo!!!), but we've got True Achievements to the rescue.  Most notable here is that casual games are less prominent on my account this year since I stopped playing Casual games on my pixel tablet while watching television, so the games here represent just xbox gaming.  The

I don't recall if Google Photos did a Year In Review last year (I suppose I could look that up), but this past December I was greeted with a "here are all the photos you took in 2025" short movie.  I think this year I started naming some of the personalities in my photos (mostly my dog and my cats), so....very predictably, I ended up taking a lot of photos of my cats and dog. It's interesting

GoodReads went all out this year (at least when compared to previous years), and gave me not only my large catalog of books read in 2025, but it also provided me with some summary cards in December about the books I read, and various comparisons with others users in the system. This year I guess I managed to read something that was popular with other people too (Careless People). And yes, the trend

My Flickr Year In Review isn't a lot to phone home about. I am actually surprised that I had over 1800 views of my photos.  I basically use Flickr as another backup for my phone's photo roll.  Maybe next year I should spend a bit more time seeing what friends and acquaintances post on Flickr and what else exists on this platform.  I think the initial concept of a photo-based social network