Home is not home - Home is going home.

    I'm cooking this blog entry well in advance of the actual date, so pardon any anachronisms. I've been finding lately that with the accumulated fatigue of the work week, the necessity of tidying up on the last day at the apartment, and so on, I haven't been able to focus much on the Friday Follow thing on Twitter. When working the Mon-Weds night shift rotation, Friday was a totally free day, and I could tweet and re-tweet at my leisure. Now, it's always a work day, and that sucks to the max for tweeting, period, much less doing the artful FF thing that I really enjoy doing. PS. By time-shifting some blogging duties to Thursday, I hope to alter that.
    I did manage to speak to Mom for a few minutes yesterday, and she sound good. She's making progress, I understand, but it's frustrating not to be able to be there to see for myself. I'll try to talk to her again today. By 0730 tomorrow, I hope to be rolling back South to my home...
    In lieu of the usual GungirlTM, we have a safe for work YouTube vid of an Actiongirl posing with guns. As you may have noticed, I've ripped off borrowed some Actiongirl pics for the GungirlTM topper of the blog.
    Today's featured MW2 vids are all top play montages - tho how 'top' they are is subjective. Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops to get massive advertising investment from Activision.
• Modern Warfare 2 demo comes suspiciously close to Inception.
• Activision quarterly financials released.
• Not strictly CoD-related, but: Celebrity paintball player Greg Hastings on how Activision tried to 'steal his identity'. In other news, there are celebrity paintball players.

• Kokugamer: Kickass Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer.
• Batman: Arkham City announced.
• Torchlight 2 announced, includes co-op multiplayer.
• Final Bioshock 2 DLC announced.
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood beta hitting PSN 13 September 2010. 
• StarCraft II patched.
• StarCraft II fastest selling strategy game ever.
• Starcraft II custom map: 'Final Fantasy 0.2' debuts. Plus, Ars Technica has an op-ed regarding the lack of control users have over their created content: StarCraft II: Help us mourn the death of content freedom. (Thanks, Blues News.)
• The Farmville Ruse: How it ruins gaming and steals your time.
• Five disturbing truths about Mario games. Other than that abomination of a movie, that is. 
• Porn sent to 11 year old over Xbox Live, Mom goes berserk.
• The Psychology of Fanboyism. As every trufan knows, Yngvie is a louse.

• Big tech problem as mainframes outlast workforce who maintained them. I, for one, welcome our benevolent mainframe overlords. 
• Droid X getting Froyo in 'early September'? 
• Top 25 Android apps.
• Five 'easy' lessons to beat Apple's iPad. 
• Why an 7-inch iPad makes no sense.
• Best Windows 7 anti-virus software.
• Amazon launches UK Kindle store.
• Google, Verizon said to have deal on prioritizing net traffic. Gaming packets get number one priority, right?
• Google denies deal to end net neutrality.

(Credit: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)