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02 April 2009 ~ Comments

X-Men Orgins: Wolverine is out, A Monthly Early…

Somehow i feel the studios had something to do with it, because from what i hear the film is probably 80% complete, i seriously doubt fox would be stupid enough to let a movie as big wolverinefrenchas this leak onto the internet causing them to lose revenue…especially now seeing as the economy sucks. As far as i can see it’s free promotion for them.  I HEAR, (i wouldn’t even consider downloading), that a lot of scenes are unfinished and the work print is still there.

The good thing about this though is that all the scenes are there, just slightly unfinished. So if you watch it and like it I’m sure you’ll want to see the finished work on the Big Screen, well i would if download it, but who’s to tell, maybe some disgruntled employee just decided to do it, which i seriously Doubt.

Looking forward to it next month:)

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26 March 2009 ~ Comments

I Won! Now what should i put it on?

Along with my Credit Card Bills (which never seems to go down, no matter how much i pay them, i have hate for you NCB) and every other bill, came something that put a smile on my face:) My prize that i won from the one and only Stunner.  The gift was a keyring he brought back from his trip/vacation in  New York. As soon as i read he was holding a contest for it i decided to pitch in, fortunately i won:).

The keyring may seem trivial to some, but i greatly appreciate such a gesture, it’s sort of like what Ruthibelle wrote here ( read and you’ll get what I’m saying). If my memory isn’t failing me I’m pretty sure I’ve never won anything in my life, my family isn’t the winning type, but as stunner said and I’m paraphrasing “it’s never too late to start winning”. I really appreciate Stunner and i hope to win more stuff in your future competitions

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22 March 2009 ~ Comments

Social Scope For the Blackberry is Awesome.

After months and months weeks of  trying to get my hands on a social scope invite, i awoke this morning only to find an invitation code in my inbox. Social Scope is one of the BEST applications I’ve used for my blackberry thus far (apart from my lastpass app of course). Social scope is primarily a twitter tool, that lets you send and receive tweets, but it also added room for facebook status updates. I’d love to go in-depth and review the features, but i was sworn to secrecy until the public release of it.

I can tell you though that it makes Twitterberry look like child’s play. As soon as i get the go ahead i’ll review it in it’s enterity, but for now i’ll continue enjoying it:)

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12 March 2009 ~ Comments

You should spend the next 8 minutes of your Life watching this.

I would suggest you spend the next 8 Minutes and 42 seconds of your life watching this video, it’s THAT good.  The difference between some cool tech going “mainstream” or not is matter of affordablility, if people can afford it and it seems cool enough then you’ll see mass adoption, but enough talking, i’ll let the video “wow” you.

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01 March 2009 ~ Comments

The Ban Was the best thing that could ever happen…

Not many realize this, but personally the Ban  on sexually explicit songs and songs promoting violence is the best thing that could ever happen to dancehall. What artists need to do is capitalize on this opportunity and push  to create clean songs, doing this will ENSURE airplay on all if not most of the radio stations.  The competition isn’t as tight now as it was a couple months ago when the Ban was not in effect, but now that it’s active, there isn’t much competition (if you listen to the radio stations you’ll realize there isn’t many new songs being played), basically because there isn’t much ‘clean’ songs to play on the radio, so most DJ’s are going retro and playing old songs, because majority of the news songs are plagued with sexual  and violent lyrics, and obviously that isn’t allowed to be broadcasted.

There’s 2 things they can do:

1. They can try and fight this decision, which they will probably will never win; wasting time not capitalizing on this opportunity  OR

2. They can go into the studios and start producing some awesome songs ( a song can still be good and not be plagued with expletives) for public consumption, it’s simple really, if your songs are clean then you’ll get airplay, majority of the dancehall artists plan to fight this and continue with the old foolish ways, but the smart ones will do what i say and capitalize on this golden opportunity.

The latter being the most logical thing to do, is the most prudent thing to do, follow these words and reap the rewards

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25 February 2009 ~ Comments

Does Facebook Grow Friendships…?

Or any other Social Network for that matter, but for argument’s sake i’ll use Facebook as a prime example. That question has been puzzling me for a while now, and i’d love feedback on it. The things that people say to each other on Facebook  i’m skeptical about them saying it to each other face to face. The bonds that they share they’d never discuss in person, but they don’t have a problem letting the world know what they share online, some would say it’s easier to do online than it is offline, but is it really?

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With that said such actions impulses  have caused bonds to grow and let people realize how much they appreciate each other, what they feel is indeed mutual and Facebook seems like the safest way to say it. I’ve also come to the conclusion that Facebook is a good avenue to find out what people think of you, i know for a fact that the things said there would NEVER be uttered in person, but maybe it’s just me, maybe some people don’t have a problem letting there friend(s) know how much they mean to them whether offline or online, what about you?

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