What on earth is MMORPG?

This is a sponsored post, and it includes a link to a great South Park episode :)

A while back I started looking for online games and online worlds mainly out of curiosity. I originally found out about Second Life and was astounded that people were actually making a ton of money on there by running real business and buying and selling things in the virtual world. I soon realised it was more than just a game and have been very interested in looking further into the possibility of me creating something online there for myself. It would be great to have my very own Random Forest online with RSS feeds on the trees displaying my blog posts for all to read and just a nice cool area for people to chill and chat.

However when I found out that people were making and bringing real money into the gaming online gaming world I was even more astounded. I heard that people has sold their characters for thousands of dollars and buying weapons and such things was common place.

These games are known as MMORPG's. This stands for 'Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing' which is a term I only learned when I decided to take on this sponsored post.

Everyone has heard of World of Warcraft now. It's popularity has risen to such a height that even South Park has paid tribute and parody to it (as you can watch below, it's hilarious!)

South Park-Make Love, Not Warcraft

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I recently purchased a WoW demo and was excited about finding out what the hype is about but sadly I don't have enough hard disk space on my MacBooks Windows partician! So I will have to wait.

I am guessing that you earn wow gold whilst playing and this can be used within the game to buy virtual goods and services. Another way of getting this is by using real cash to buy it and then you can spend it in the virtual world.

The market for these virtual goods and services is predicted to raise to $4 billion by 2008 and WoW currently has 9 million players worldwide.

Game Goods is one suh company where you can get this wow gold and they say that:

"GameGoods is a premium player in this industry and one of the best companies to but world of warcraft gold with really competitive prices, 24/7 customer service and extremely fast delivery speeds.".

The site looks clean and professional and it looks like you can purchase in 4 very quick steps using Credit Card, PayPal and a few other options. Easy Peasy!!

Maybe one day I'll be hooked to Warcraft or a similar game. Usually I like to let my characters progress based on my skill but I can understand the want to improve quickly in these huge universes and thus this can be acheived by purchasing using your hard earned cash.

I wonder if they South Park guys could have just beat that guy by buying some wow gold and then upgrading their characters enough to kill him?

Irish words for underwear!

I have just been looking at some of my stats and noticed that someone had found me by typing 'Irish words for underwear' Strangely it's double spaced too! If you type that into Google I am the second result down.

As I don't get many people coming here from funny search terms I thought I would post about it.

So what are some Irish (Gaelic) words for underwear?

fo-éadaí = Underwear
brístín = Knickers / Briefs
mionbhrístíní = Briefs
fobhrístí = Underpants
Translations were found from englishirishdictionary.com

I'm baaaaaack

After an evening and whole morning of being on the phone with the service provider and testing various pieces of equipment, I have finally managed to get my Landlords internet connection back online and can finally start using the net again!

Just needed a new router, always very simple....

Sorry I have not been around!

The internet decided to stop working at home and is still not working.... and I have committed to fixing a PC for my partners friend.

I thought it would be a quick job but now I have become involved in playing Doctor Frankenstein and chopping the parts from two dead computers into one. Also got to go buy a network card and maybe a small hard drive for it!

So I have grabbed a few moments in Subway using the wireless to read my mails and read a few posts.

Hopefully I'll be back online at home later tonight.

Bye bye for now!

Who the hell are Aston Villa Football Club?

This is a sponsored post

When I lived back in the UK, like many young Brits I used to follow football (or Soccer as I have to keep saying over here in Canada).

I lived for many years next to Charlton Athletic FC and my family were supporters so naturally I ended up becoming a follower too.

Since I have been here in Montreal I have not been keeping up to date with Football / Soccer news so have recently been thinking that I need to find a decent site to bookmark so that I can keep a rough eye on what is going on. I guess the offical Premiership site may be the best place for me to get general news

But.... if you happen to be an Aston Villa Fan then Aston Villa News might be the perfect place for you to bookmark.

VillaMad is a unofficial website that gives you tons of up to date AVFC news, history info, match reports, squad details and much more.

If you are wondering what the hell I am on about then here is a quick roundup.

Aston Villa have been a staple team in the English Premiership for many years now. They were recently bought by the American Randy Lerner and are they are managed by a fantastic manager called Martin O'Neil.

They are also currently fighting for one of the positions to allow them to go into the European Cup and play against the best clubs throughout Europe.

Some of their players include Gareth Barry (recently on the England squad), Ashley Young and Martin Laursen (trust me, theya re all pretty good :) ).

If you don't know much about English Football or you are a avid fan then this is a great place to go. The layout of the site is pretty cluttered but once to adjust and start reading it is packed with info and may well be the only place you need to visit for the news.

Celebrations!!!

Horray! My RSS subscribers jumped up over 50% today!!!!!

They went from 8 to 19, Amazing, hey?

Well actually Google Feedburner sorted out the glitch it had yesterday and my subscribers are just back to be what they were before.

Ho hum, better get back to genuinely doubling my subscribers.

It's Movember for Problogger

How Darren *may* look by the end of Movember!

I don't often blog about other blogs, especially not the big players but Darren over at Problogger is taking part in Movember.

As I don't have the cash to participate in giving money I thought I would try and spread this worthy cause.

Movember (the month formally known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year.

At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants known as Mo Bros then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache and along the way raise as much money and awareness about male health issues, in particular prostate cancer as possible. Movember culminates at the end of the month at the gala partés. These glamorous and groomed events will see Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title.

Darren is offering the following:
If you donate $200 or more I’ll include a button with a link (maximum of 125 x 125 pixels) above the fold on this post. I’ll also include that button and link in a post at the end of Movember as a thank you.

To do this you need to make a donation of $200 ore more (that’s $200 Aussie dollars or around $185 USD), send me proof of your donation (a screen shot of your receipt would be fine), the button ad (125×125 pixels maximum) and the link to your site that you want me to point the button to. No offensive content and no affiliate programs please as the links.

I think it's a great thing for a big blogger to do so if you can hop over to Problogger.net and follow his progress.

I hope he does not mind my silly picture :)