Good Apple, bad NIN, lemon meringue pie, games & films

Had another really good experience with Apple customer service the other day and forgot to blog it so thought I'd share today. I downloaded a free app for my iPhone (a Pokemon Pokedex) which had an in-app upgrade to unlock all the features for £2.99. I also bought another Pokedex app for £1.99. The two looked almost identical only the £1.99 version was better. On further investigation it turned out that both apps were from the same publishing house and author. Needless to say I was a little miffed with this shady company so contacted Apple support and requested a refund of £2.99 for the iffy in-app upgrade. I got an email back saying that all iTunes purchases are binding but in this case they could see why I was upset and agreed to refund me the £2.99. RESULT! Hopefully the publisher will also get a slap on the wrist too and be made to sort things out.

I also suffered big style having been subjected to the new Nine Inch Nails single. Have to say I was really not impressed. Really, really disappointed with this...... It's bland, generic NIN and really does sound like Herr Reznor is only it in for the filthy lucre now rather than having any inspiration or innovation left in him. Be interesting to hear how the rest of the album sounds as this has not excited me at all. If you want to suffer too then here it is:


We didn't do very much today. Got up late after some much needed sleep, had breakfast and watched The Mummy. Later in the afternoon Sam and I hit the kitchen and knocked up a lemon meringue pie.

Before cooking:


After cooking:


My gaming plans continued with a little bit of classic Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and a more up to date Tetris Worlds on the Gameboy Advance. This was followed up by Castlevania X on the PSP. Next stop was updating the PSP to firmware 6.60 and then hacking it to allow me to play games from the memory stick ;o)

Tortilla wrap pizzas were made for noms and then we watch You Don't Mess With The Zohan. DISCO DISCO! Goat, goat, GOAT!

The lemon meringue pie was delicious!!!!!!

Our plan had been to complete the night by saddling up and riding into the sunset with the Three Amigos. This then changed when we had to go and pick up Aaron from Michaela's as he'd left it too late to come back. When we returned we decided to stay up and try and make it through some more ice hockey.....

Chicago Blackhawks took on L.A. Kings in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. L.A. Kings came into this game trailing the series 3 - 1 and this game was make or break for them. Six minutes into the first period and Chicago were leading the game 2 - 0! Blackhawks dominated the period and and it ended with them still 2 - 0 up.

Kings came out in the second looking a little sharper and a beautiful shorthanded goal proved that they certainly weren't ready to give up yet. The period ended 2 - 1 with the Kings starting to really get things together.

A nice power play goal for the Kings evened things up five minutes into the third but the Blackhawks went 3 - 2 ahead. With less than ten seconds left in the period the Kings managed to equalise and take the game to overtime, aaaarrggghhh! First overtime ended 3 - 3 so into a second period of overtime we went!

We were shattered by this point so went to bed. We did leave the radio broadcast running but must have crashed out before the game ended! Bugger!


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