An interesting post was made on Kotaku yesterday about an article over at the Escapist. Tom Endo takes a look at game culture and reasons for not finishing games. He talks about not being embarrassed to say he's played a game but not finished it. This made me think. Am I embarrassed to have not finished the games I've got? I'm not so sure. It bothers me that I have such a long list of games that are unfinished, or even unstarted. And trust me, I do have a lot.

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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.

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 feels me a weird sense of accomplishment. I think... I think this is what fame feels like?

I finally got around to upgrading my b2evolution blog today from version 1.10 to the much improved 2.4. Version 2 of the b2evolution blog has seen a lot of improvement, and as such my upgrade from the previous version was not as simple as I had hoped. The main problem was that my custom skin needed to be completely rebuilt based around the new template. Whereas the main page template in 1.10 was called "_main.php" it's not called "index.main.php", and uses a whole new array structure to pull in various bits.

One fantastic addition is the inclusion of installable widgets that get automatically added to your blog once you install them in the back end. However, upon completing and installing my custom skin my admin are was telling me "[NOT INCLUDED IN SELECTED SKIN!]" next to my Sidebar, Sidebar 2, Header, Menu and Page Top sections. Sidebar is the only one I'm using, and I know that I've got it included on the page. The 2 widgets I already had installed were showing up fine, but trying to add new ones resulted in an error message and them not showing up on the front end.

The b2evolution forums and support were no help, but I finally ran into the solution after some random clicking about on things. If you go to Blog Settings > Skin > Manage Skin you will see a "Reload" icon next to each skin. Hit that for your custom skin and it will rescan your files and realise what areas are included on your page.

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.

Dragonforce. Expert. Bikes. My life can never be as good as this guy's.