Celebrityscraps

I’ve always made sure all my machines have up to date anti-virus software over the years. Most recently I began following the official AVG Twitter account (@officialAVGnews).

The boys and girls at AVG are nice enough to tweet about the various things happening in the world of personal computer security, which I think is a great way to reach consumers.

Anyway… earlier in the week I recieved a letter from London telling me that as I am one of their 100th-150th followers on Twitter I’ve won a license for AVG Internet Security 8.5 for the year………. Whoop!!

AVG are also running other promotions via their Twitter account so start following them now: @officialAVGnews

What is a sandbox game you may ask. Well in this type of game a player may ignore game objectives and go off to “do their own thing”. This can often open up possibilities that were not intended by the game designer.

I tried out the 21 day free trial of “EVE Online” this Sunday and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

One thing I’ve always despised about MMORPGs is that almost all of them require hours upon hours of leveling up skills! EVE Online takes a different approach. You do have to learn skills to be able to do certain things, pilot certain craft etc, however you set up your training and then can log off and your character still continues to train. This makes the game ideal for the casual player like myself. I can log on for as little as 20 mins and get something achieved, whereas in games like World of Warcraft or Warhammer Online it usually takes a minimum of at least an hour to achieve something

I suggest anyone who has had a taste for MMORPGs to check out EVE Online. Another good thing is that you can pay for subscription with ingame cash “apparently”.

One of my online buddies Laura Roeder all the way over in Venice, CA specialises in being the “Tome of Twitter Knowledge”.

She’s made a damn good career out of it so far, and now a huge online following is lobbying to get her on the Ellen Degeneres show to teach her all about Twitter!

So all feel free to tweet @theellenshow and let them know that the people online would like to see Laura (@lkr) on her show!

Last night I attended the BAFTA Video Game awards. I had a thoroughly good time, however my happiness was stained by the actions of local trash keying every panel of my car down to the base paint.

This is a problem that has been going on for a while in the area where I park my car to get the tube to central London. I’m sure the cops know of the problem but simply do not care!

My housemate has suggested that the only logical solution to the problem is to camp out in the bushes with various sharp implements, using the car as bait. Hopefully our local human garbage will come back for seconds and get a good keying themselves.

While I’m an upstanding citizen I can’t help feeling that vigilante justice in this case is justified, as this is the second time this has happened to me.

I guess I’ll see what the cops say first before I begin prepping the blowtorch and chainsaw!

I’m starting to feel the signs of a cold hitting me which is never good. I’ve come to the decision that this is probably due to bad Karma from a previous life. Maybe I was a door to door salesman or a telemarketer, but I’ve definitely done something to piss the Grim Reaper off!

With this in mind I’m going to pre-empt the blighter with a dose of Vitamin C (oranges etc) and a good old fashioned helping of antibiotics! Yes that’s right I’m taking the easy way out and going for drugs.

Now many people say “don’t take antibiotics as it weakens your immune system”…. I disagree however as it will cure me quickly and the only downside is I’ll still be vulnerable to the same strain of cold.

I’d also like to add that if I’m ill in the first place, my immune system must be weakened anyway by either other influences or the illness itself