Something to make you smile!

So these days nearly every news story you hear is about something depressing. In this time of recessions, natural disasters and other sad news, it is good to stumble across something that makes you realise nice things do happen in the world every once in a while! This happened to me the other day when I stumbled across this story, deemed the "Greatest Marriage Proposal Ever!".

The couple involved were Matt & Ginny. Ginny was taken to the cinema and during the trailers an extra special trailer was shown, specially prepared by her boyfriend Matt. The film goes on to show Matt ask Ginny's father for her hand in marriage, before racing off the to the theatre packed with the couple's friends and family, as well as about 100 strangers, to pop the question. So sit back and watch the magic unfold, and I hope it makes you smile in this world of bad news!

FIFA 11 Pays For Your Parties!

I live in a student house with 4 other guys, so there are few evenings where a game of FIFA is not played. This being the case we all started to tire of the lack of incentive to do well. This led to us running an in-house league in our first term (which I won!). However this required a lot of effort coordinating games, recording results etc. and we are all pretty lazy, so a new idea was required for our second and third term.

Inspired by the FIFA drinking game, we decided to introduce forfeits depending on how many goals someone loses by. These forfeits are as followed (and accumulate):

• Lose by 3+ goals: Congratulate your opponent and shake their hand.
• Lose by 5+ goals: A lap of the house applauding and cheering for your opponent
• Lose by 7+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponent for wasting their time, that is then displayed in a public place (i.e. the fridge)
• Lose by 10+ goals: Write a letter of apology to your opponents parents, apologising to them for wasting their child's time.

However we wanted to spice things up a little more, so to each one of these forfeits a cash penalty was attached; 50p, £1, £1.50 and £2 respectively. This suddenly made every game more tense and competitive, with money being collected, ready to pay towards end of exam celebrations. We have collected roughly £40 in our house pot so far, with that amount growing by the week, by doing nothing different to what we would normally do. So if you are looking for a way to save some money, play FIFA!

PSN hacked...... Again!

So Sony have just about got back up after being dealt a hefty blow to their PlayStation Network (PSN) by hackers, after millions of user's details were recently compromised. Now as they try to clear away the debris from this attack and get the network up and running again, Sony have been pushed back down and had their face rubbed in the dirt.

There is currently a hack circulating that enables someone to change your PSN password, using only your email associated to the account and your data of birth. Both of these pieces of information were released in the original hack. Nyleveia suggests the following:

"...secure your accounts now by creating a completely new email that you will not use ANYWHERE ELSE, and switching your PSN account to use this new email."

So if you have a PS3 and use the PlayStation Network, I would suggest that you act quickly and do something about this, before this hack gets more public and you become more at risk of becoming a victim of this attack. Alternately you could just get an Xbox...

Update: Nyleveia say that Sony have patched the issue and the PSN will soon be back up and running.

Revision Soundtrack

Just a quick thought, it is important to have the right music while revising so as to keep you focused and in the zone. My personal favorite at the moment is the soundtrack to Angels & Demons.

I have put a poll up to see what genre of music people of prefer while revising, will be interesting to know how many people share my opinion.

Revision - Things to distract you from it!

So for anyone who is currently at uni, I am sure you are well into your revision! I know I am not the only one who is bored before they arrive at the library, thinking "why didn't I have an extra hour in bed?!?!" while staring blankly at lecture slides.

After an hour of this it soon gets to the point where you somehow find yourself on Youtube or playing a flash game..... So when this point arrives, here is just a couple of things you may want to do during your well earned break:

Angry Birds


So Angry Birds has finally made it's way off of smartphones and into chrome. Simply hit the image below and you will be whisked away to beat on some egg stealing pigs.

Achtung

If you have anyone on your table that has an iPad, then this game is a must get. This hybrid of Tron and Snake is a perfect time waster for 2-4 people. This game can be anything from a fun 5 mins, to a battle of strategies for hours, depending on who you are playing with! Here is a little video showing it off to give you more of an idea what the game is about.

So I hope I haven't completely destroyed your exam revision and should you get bored of these, head over to The Good Resolution and check out some pretty awesome basketball videos.

Good luck to all of you taking exams in the near future!

The Chicago Code

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I have been insanely busy with uni work and deadlines etc. Nearing the end of all that now though, just the revision and exams to go!

Anyway enough of me moaning and onto another new TV show that has caught my eye. You have probably guessed by now it is to do with American crime seeing as most of the things I watch are about this! It is called The Chicago Code and is, yes you guessed it, set in Chicago. The creator is Shawn Ryan who is also know for The Unit, which I has been higher rated to me but I am yet to see. There are no huge names really to be seen in this, which I liked as it prevents the show basing itself around one main actor.

The show is sits in the drama genre, with its toes just dipping into the humour genre. You will find yourself gripped, while also letting out a little chuckle every once in a while. I have so far only seen a few episodes, but am at this point quite impressed. Hopefully it will continue to keep me interested.