March 6, 2008
Here are my thoughts on possibly buying a Wii or Xbox 360. PSP or PS3 is out of the question don't like em. Remember my perpsective is from having most games on xbox (own 2) and most games on Nintendo DS (own 4). Probably won't mesh with your perspective. Also have 2 kids. Don't want to play reshashed games just for better graphics either. Games mostly based on reading net and metacritic.

Wii Games about $50/each
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (might make a few buy a wii)
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
Super Paper Mario
Wii Sports
MLB Power Pros 2007 (baseball)
Mario Strikers Charged (soccer)

Wii Games rated Teen or Mature
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition $30 (since rehash of gamecube title)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
No More Heroes

Xbox 360 Games about $60/each

BioShock
Orange Box, The (Half Life 2 played on PC/xbox)
Gears of War
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (played on PC nice game)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 2 and 3 on xbox)
Halo 3 (Halo 1 and 2 on xbox)
Mass Effect

Rock Band $160 (guitar, mic, drums)
(still have over 10,000 Karoke songs and a metal DDR pad
with 4 DDR games to play with first though on xbox)

Live Arcade about $5 to $10 a game
Rez HD
Settlers of Catan (have $300 3D edition)
Lumines
(Castlevania and Geoetry Wars already got on DS)

Both systems can get Guitar Hero III $90 with guitar

Wii Cost (walmart bundle $660)
$250 Wii Console comes with Mario Party 8 (don't really wanna pay for it though) $50
pick 6 items and I'd pick (7 x $50 = $350)
Wii Play with BONUS Remote $50 (for 2nd controller)
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Babaros Treasure $50
Super Paper Mario Wii $50
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Wii $50
Mario Strikers: Charged Wii $50
Super Mario Galaxy Wii $50

so basically $600 worth of stuff, actually $550 in my eyes and you pay $110 for NOTHING geez. Add another $20 for 2nd nanchuck
so $680 + shipping and tax....wow a no brainer here....rip off just wait till you can get a $250 console screw this
wouldn't buy off walmart that is for sure avoid at all costs
total for Wii hardware $320 (250 + 50 wii play + 20 nanchunk)

Xbox 360 Cost
120GB edition $450 - 20GB edition $350
1 yr live subscription $40, 2nd wireless controller $40
total for Wii hardware $540 (450+ 40 + 40)

Conclusion and thoughts Wii and Xbox 360
Not too tempting as of March 2008 maybe revisit around Christmas 2008.
Both have slim pickings for quality titles. Xbox 360 is FSP shoot em up.
Live Arcade is slick I know but still seems like buying $2,000 computer and playing solitaire mentality. Actually after analyzing the costs of hardware/games to me it's a no brainer wait till Christmas time and see if there are price drops and better games hopefully for them. I definitely will just stick with World of Warcraft on my mac for now.

Also the xbox via xmbc use just great to play up to 530p content but 720p can't do it. You might say AppleTV but I say no thanks. Near end of year going to look into getting a mac mini $600 (current PPC mac mini won't work) to play 720p and 1080p content maybe via osxbmc.com

March 2, 2008
Switched back to firefox on Mac just couldn't live without downthemall and minor things like copying plain text from a link which you can't do in Safari.

Feb 23, 2008
I've switched to Safari from Firefox. Really only thing I'm still searching for is ability to disable gif animations which I did with webdeveloper extension on firefox. Ok had to find a replacement for DownThemAll which I could download multiple images for instance on a gallery. I finally found it after much searching.Link Sequence Downloader QED.

To replace adblock on firefox I tested a couple and it was between Safari AdBlock (GPL) and SafariBlock and winner for me was SafariBlock freeware. It does automatic subscriptions lists just like Safari Adblock but in addition has right click Flash blocking and right click image blocking which brings up customizable filter. Doesn't have whitelisting yet but for those sites and bring up Safari Preferences and disbable SafariAdblock temporarily.

smcFanControl (GPL) adjust macbookpro fan speeds and monitor tempature. Finally I can slow those puppies down to 1,000rpm.

Adult Blocking websites for Parents finally a free solution and I highly recommend it. Blocks phishing sites, etc. Has 32 customizable categories. opendns.com

Feb 19, 2008
Nintendo DS Lite Guide has been updated put latest firmware for M3 Simply. Spent last few days updating the Nintendo DS Games lists for Nintendo DS English ones and Nintendo DS Japanese. Haven't updated them in quite sometime so please let me know if you think I'm missing a game that should be included. Firefox and Safari users can enjoy the description text while IE users just won't see it.