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On my way to work yesterday, I saw a heron perched on a roof not far from my house. Another bird that I assumed to be a crow was flying around it, occasionally swooping at it, which would cause the heron to duck. Eventually it flew away, and the crow followed it aggressively. I meant to Tweet about it when I got to work, but it slipped my mind. I just remembered it this morning when I saw two small birds chasing each other around a wall.

So, what's been up in my life? Recently, I guess there was the play-testing we did at work. It was something I took part in back when I worked at Ninja before, and we did it again for the new game. I didn't do the testing, obviously; it would make no sense to try and get information about gameplay from someone who's been playing the game for the past 7 months. Instead we got in a few people who've never played it before, and took notes about how they played the game. My job was to encourage the guy I was with to keep talking about his experience, and what he was thinking. He was someone who played quite a lot of games, and it sort of showed, because he finished up a good half hour to an hour before the other three! Anyway, it was an interesting change of pace.

Other stuff: My previous plan to start up a music blog kind of fell through before; I tried starting a review of The Mars Volta's Octahedron, but I didn't really feel that strongly about the album, so it never went anywhere. Inspired by Lisa, however, I had another stab at it, reviewing an album of her choosing (Specifically Hanne Hukkelberg's 'Little Things'), and managed to finish it. I'm going to revise the review slightly this weekend, and I need to do some stuff to set the blog up, and try to make it look nice (I've never been too good at that, as you might notice from this one), and then I'll post it. I'm also planning to review Bibio's new album, 'The Apple and the Tooth', which is fantastic. I'll link to the blog here when it's ready, anyway.