Twits & Tweets

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Those of you who correspond with me regularly and who have Twitter accounts may have noticed that I signed up myself recently, despite me saying that I could not see the point and that I never would. Well I just wanted to reassure you that I have not lost my mind and that I have not gone back on my word. I will not be posting what I am up to on there, nor will I be following any celebrities. It was simply a means to an end. Please don't waste your time in "following" me. This blog is still my only indulgence in the attention grabbing aspects of my personality. But it occurs to me that if you need to find out what is going on within some realms these days, don't bother ringing, don't bother emailing, don't even bother trying to look it up on their website. Your only option is to follow them on Twitter.

I have been looking forward to the release of Modern Warfare 2 for what seems like forever. I had my copy on pre-order to be safe. I was not disappointed as the game is a masterpiece and I cannot extol it's virtues too much. However, Sony must be slightly stupid. To explain...My platform of choice is the Playstation 3 which uses Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) to facilitate online play. Unlike XBox Live, it is free, which is fantastic but perhaps that is also its flaw. Yesterday lunchtime, PSN went off air and stayed off for several hours. Argh! The sheer demand must have broken something and subscribing to a Twitter feed seemed to be the only way to find what was actually going on. It is back now but you cannot help but wonder how this happened. This was the most anticipated video game in history. Pre-order sales were in the region of seven million breaking all records.Would you not think that it might have been a good idea to beef up the infrastructure somewhat so that it could cope with the demand?

I'm not letting it spoil it for me though. I'll just take it out on my opponents. :-)