Just realized that I have been lax in posting links to my “Remote View” columns over at Cinema Spy.

Here are links to the last four columns:

• On endings
• Putting Lost away for the season
• Surviving Starbuck
• Staying inside this summer

I may have been away from my desk for a couple of weeks, but readers of the Georgia Straight would never have known, as my regular columns, “Trigger Happy” and “Techno Logic” published anyway.

Here’s a rundown of what I wrote about in the last few weeks:

June 19

• Having fun in the sun with high tech
• Reviews of Dementium: The Ward, Downstream Panic!, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Napoleon Dynamite: The Game, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice, and Silent Hill: Origins

June 26

• Feature interview with Joel DeYoung of Hothead Games
• Review of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One

July 3

• Profile of interweb writing and community site Protagonize

I’ve been busting to get columns filed well in advance to accommodate a three-week break.

The break starts tomorrow, and I’ll be in parts of the world where there is no easy access to the interwebs, so while I’ll have columns publishing in the next three weeks, I won’t be posting links to those columns here.

I promise to do a big post when I’m back, to get you caught up.

Or you can just check the usual places occasionally, and watch for my name. If you’re of the mind.

See you in July.

Despite the fact that Nintendo’s Wii is the best-selling video game console on the planet, there’s a surprising lack of games worth playing on the machine. I run down a few recent Wii releases in my latest “Trigger Happy” column in the Georgia Straight and sidebar it with a review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo.

Q: How do you know when a city attains world-class status?

A: When the Apple Store opens.

Vancouver’s first Apple Store – the first Apple Store in western Canada – opened on May 24. The Pacific Centre mall was full of restraint as the Mac addicts tried to remain calm prior to the doors opening.

Read all about it over here in my latest “Techno Logic” column for the Georgia Straight.