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PlayStation Home Beta Access

Usual routine this morning – wake up, turn on computer, load up emails, select and delete the 95% that are rubbish. Read the remaining 5% and hope for something interesting. Today that 5% held my PlayStation Home Beta Access Key. Yey!

I’ve spent a lot of time in the Home world today, and even with the very limited content it’s really impressive. Customisable avatars, customisable living spaces, customisable clubhouses and a number of social areas to mingle in really make the experience interesting. There’s quite a bit lacking in the world at the moment, but that’s sure to change with time. But as a beta it’s pretty shiny. The scope for annoying everyone else with body popping dancing and unneccessary waving gestures is unending. I will have a lot of fun with that.

There was one moment of minor lulz when the big screen in Home Square started showing game ads. Big music and big explosions heralded an ad for Wipeout HD, in what is probably the worst quality video to have played through my HDTV since I’ve had it.

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Nov 22

John Robinson Disambiguation

I make a habit of checking my various Google stats quite frequently to see if anyone interesting is linking to me, or to see if I’m making any kind of impact on the Internet. At all. Generally it’s pretty boring reading. Most links to this site come from posts I’ve made elsewhere.

Not all of them though! Today I saw I was being linked to from a URL I didn’t recognise. I’m being linked to from the John Robinson disambiguation page! It’s simply a list of a number of John Robinson’s that exist around the world, compiled by another of my my name brothers.

I’m not in bad company! There’s a number of professors, authors, CEOs and at least one murderer. You want to watch out world. We’re coming for you, and we don’t mess about!

There’s not much exciting going on with the page, but it fills me with a weird sense of accomplishment. I think… I think this is what fame feels like?

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Nov 22

Bike Hero on Expert = Epic Wins. How it should be done.

Earlier in the week Activision released this viral marketing ad, showing a guy cycling along to The Living End – Prison of Society on Hard, from Guitar Hero World Tour. Pretty interesting stuff.

Then Freddie Wong made this.

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Nov 21

Shiba Inu Puppy Cam

Check out what is without a doubt the single cutest thing on the Internet right now. A live video stream of a litter of 6 Shiba Inu living in San Francisco

Over 4 million viewed the puppies’ activities in the last week, and many people have come to know the puppies by name.

According to TODAY they include boys Aki (green collar), Akoni (black collar), Ando (blue collar) and girls Autumn (purple collar), Ayumi (yellow collar) and Amaya (red collar).

Live TV : Ustream

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Nov 16

UK Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Edition Release

Being a long time player of World of Warcraft I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the Wratch of the Lich King expansion pack Collector’s Edition. There has been some great threads on the Warcraft forums keeping people up to date with any progress in finding out when the UK release date would be for the Collector’s Edition. Last week Blizzard announced that the UK would definitely be getting the Collector’s Edition, and it was soon discovered that Gamestation had the product code for the preorder if you went in store.
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Oct 2