I got my games! The most important one, NHL 10, after it being out of stock everywhere i finally got it. Thank you to Amazon, who got me the game, and earlier than they originally said

I have only tried NHL and Top Spin 3, both of which are good. NHL 10 is sooo good! It is also really hard, which i knew since the goals in hockey are tiny to score in…But it makes the challenge better.

The control system is so hard at first, the buttons are nothing like FIFA, you use the 2 analog sticks for most of the stuff, and the buttons to do different moves; left stick to move, right stick to shoot/tackle; the shooting is cool, you pull back on the stick and move it forward, which is more realistic than pressing a button.

I am probably doing nothing over the weekend…So i will be playing on these

Hey my lovely readers, how are you?

Are you getting lots of requests on MSN Messenger? I am! For the past 3 weeks or so i have had lots of people trying to add me; These are bots and spammers, whats happened!? I never used to get these, but over the past few weeks i have got so many, and they are annoying.

Whats going on with MSN Messenger?

Hey!

I have added a new feature to the blog a few days back and have been testing it out. It is located at the right side of the page, and is called “Most Popular Posts”. This does exactly what you would expect, and displays the most popular posts, i.e. the posts which people are reading the most. There are over 250 posts at the moment, so you can see the 10 most read; That is the 10 most read of the week.

As you can see, some are quite old posts, but still get a good read because of their position in search engines and because people enjoy reading them.

At the moment it displays a little pic next to the post, i may remove this in the future if it slow down the site or something.

Have fun looking at what others are reading

Hey everyone!

So, Facebook. We all use it (well most of us), and threre has been loads of changes in terms of who you can let see your profile, which means either more, or less people can view it. This is because the regional networks have gone, so you can no longer make it viewable to only people in your region, which i think is a shame.

Now, i used to not allow everyone to view my profile, because i didnt really want everyone to have access to it. I have now fliped this, and made more or less my whole profile available to everyone excluding the ones i dont want to see it.

This is done by using the block feature. There are plenty of people out there who i wouldnt want to read my Facebook, and are sad enough to do so. Fuck the haters and sad people!!! So the way you can get round this, is to block them. They will not know you have done this, if they search for you, then you simply will not show up. Now, there are a few ways around this, but the way i look at it is if people try to get round me blocking them, JUST to see my profile then they are a bigger loser than i thought!

On another note, i cant believe how people can manage their profile with 100s of “friends”. On my business account i have over 100, and i cannot keep track of them! I know people with 600 and even over 1000 so called “friends”…Why would you want this many? I would love to hear one of them people tell you something about each person, or even say as many full names as they can.

There was some sad person who i went to school with, who has over 100 “friends”. The thing is, 90% of the people are just randoms who he used to go to school with, in most cases who he didnt even know. I actually know one of them, and asked her about him, she said recognised his name and that was all. What a sado! Oh, he did add me…And i deleted him! LOL

If people want to add me and talk to me then fine, if they are adding me to get their numbers up then i will delete them soon later.

The Apple store in Newcastle opens tomorrow. I dont know if i should bother to go. I was going to go, and wear a “I’m a P.C.” t-shirt, which would of been funny

I am not sure if i want to go, the first 1,500 people get a free Apple t-shirt, but they are saying that thousands of people from all over the country are coming, so that sort of puts me off. It is the first Apple store to open in the North East of England.

Its also the opening of the new part of the Eldon Square, where it is situated.

Hey everyone! How are you today?

Yesterday i tried to upload a video to YouTube, i never do this usually, i only use YouTube to watch videos. I am aware that WMG aka Warner, are the WORST people for having clips removed which contain music, but until yesterday i didnt realise the extent of the problem.

It seems that YouTube have an algorithm which can go through the start of a video/music and detect if it is in the Warner database, and immediately removes the sound from the video. The video remains, with no sound, and you have the option to choose some free music, leave it as it is or upload a new video.

Now, my video was just a funny, valentines video. It has 4 or 5 clips of songs, which lasted around 25 seconds each. It was hardly distributing their music for profit. The purpose for the video was for 1 day, for fun.

Companies like WMG are killing the music industry. They will have you believe that its the pirates which are doing this, when in fact it is their own ignorance towards new technology, media and how we are all now interacting. I completely agree that people who go to car boot sales and sell copies of music/DVD is wrong, very wrong. It does harm the people making the music/film, and should be stopped.

HOWEVER, using music in a funny YouTube video is completely different. Now, people will say “its still copyright infringement” blah blah blah. But these copyright laws were written a long time ago, for a different era. There is no way to really enforce them, you cannot stop every person in the world uploading a vid to YouTube which contains copyright material. I have seen so many clips taken down, for example clips of people using Singstar. If you dont know, Singstar is a karaoke game and you can record yourself singing songs.

The music industry, in particular WMG needs to wake up! Its not the 80s anymore, we arent recording off the radio (which people did and you could never stop them). If someone is using a clip of music in a video it is promoting their music, but more importantly it is not being used for profit. There needs to be a “fair use” style of copyright law brought into force, if you are using music under certain circumstances it should be allowed.

I am going to keep an eye on the WMG situation and see what happens

Hello dear readers

Have you used Google Auto complete on their web searches? I imagine you have seen it…

For a few months Google has had autocomplete on in the web searches. So basically the idea is you start to type, and Google “guesses” what you are going to type and gives you options.

But you can type in some very normal things, just one or two innocent words, and the suggestions it gives you are hilarious, in some cases very, very strange and weird; just goes to show there are some weird people out there. Most things which are thrown up are sexual, there seems to be alot of focus on pregnancy, all from 2 innocent words, check it out…

Is It wrong to sleep with your sister? errrr?? 

Can i get pregnant from a dog…ooooooook!?!? 

How Do You Finger Yourself; How Do you get pregnant…errrrr

I want to die….oooook?!

haha! So many funny things here!

So many things wrong here…

I had to write February 2010 as Facebook keep changing their layout, permissions, and other things. Anyway, here is the new Facebook. If you have already had this layout for a while i am sorry, i just got it today. If you dont have it yet then this is what is to come.

To be honest, not much has changed. The bar at the bottom no longer exists, which is a shame since i used to use it to get to groups and pages. What is strange is that on my monitor in the resolution i use, it doesnt look like the main centre column is actually in the centre.

What do you think of it? It’s probably just a matter of time before there are some more changes.

I used my Wii yesterday for the first time in ages, and woke up this morning and could bearly lift my arms I had a go at the latest Wii Fit Plus, and it is better than the original. There are more games and activities, so i used it much more playing the different games. One of the best new games has to be the obstacle course, it is so much fun!

Now we know about the iPad, we know the spec, we have an idea of the price, but WHO is the device marketed at?

the iPad has had lots of negativity and criticism directed to it from the Apple fanboys, in an Apple Internet forum around 70% of people said they would not be buying one…These are Apple fans, so how is it going to go down with the mainstream?

Engadget posted a comparison iPhone VS ipad for 3g, and the costs, and in their comparison the iPad worked out as a much cheaper device. This is NOT the case. They did not factor in 1 thing, the iPad is not a phone! A mobile phone is an essential device these days, and i doubt anyone would have an iPad without having a mobile phone.

So who will buy this device? What is it for? I really do not know. If you use a computer at home, you will be using either a desktop or a laptop. If you are traveling day-to-day for example on the bus, train, or to work and want light use you will use your iPhone or touch if you have 1. If you need something more powerful for travel, if you go on holiday or away for a few days you will use a laptop. It fits between a laptop, and a smartphone, but do we need something in between those? I dont think so.

iPad is Apple’s netbook? This was touched on at their event, but really, its not. A netbook is an inexpensive laptop, this is not. This is a large expensive itouch.

What you dont get

If you buy the WIFI version you do not get 3g (obviously) and do not get GPS. You also still do not get Flash, so cannot run flash apps or websites; There are plenty big websites running flash, for example the BBC, so you will not be able to get some of their media content. You also dont get texting and calls, which is obvious since its not a phone. If you go for the 3g version, there will be a monthly cost, and many current plans are for a fixed term (e.g. 12 months).

Check out my breakdown of the cost, i believe this is the only true comparison:

The iPhone Pay As You Go looks cheap here in comparison having a contract, but remember this does not include any calls, texts or anything like that. Simply free 3g access. My choice out of the 3 for price, is the iPhone on contract.

So the iPad is actually very expensive. Lets not forget, you have to factor in the cost of a mobile phone, as this isnt a phone whereas the iPhone obviously is! So even if you go for a free phone (which you wont, if you are geeky enough to have an iPad you will want a geeky phone) and contract at £30/month that is another £360/year on top of the iPad and its 3g usage. Even if the iPad is not at my predicted £499 cost, it is £250 MORE than the iPhone, and we know that it will not be £250 under £499.

So, after looking at all of this, considering all the good and bad points, what have i decided? I have decided that this is a cool gadget to have, but nothing more. It costs too much, it isnt going to replace something, and isnt going to be an addition to something either. There is no room in the market for this. You buy a laptop because you want/need a portable computer. You buy a mobile phone because you want a mobile phone. You buy an iPad because….There is no reason.