Dead Rising and 100 hits

Picked up Dead Rising today. I checked out some reviews and some videos on youtube - especially this one with the lawnmower and it looked pretty good.

Gonna play it after doing the blog.

Also the hitcounter is showing 100 unique hits today.

Thanks to all that have stopped by to look at www.badboyhouse.co.uk it's much appreciated.

I've also added my Twitter rss feed which should show all the recent entries.

Cheers for now!

badboyhouse.co.uk is now collecting traffic stats

After a bit of research and messing about with some code I've managed to get badboyhouse.co.uk set-up with statcounter.com to start collecting traffic info for the site.

I've had 80 unique visits to the site so far since the site went live on Wednesday (thanks to all that have stopped by!) so having the additional stat counting will help show where visitors are coming from.

The Karate Kid

Came across this site last night. As a fan of the Karate Kid movies this was a great find.

To this day I still watch the Karate Kid movies whenever they're on TV even though I can pretty much remember each scene and the script.

In my opinion only the first 3 KK movies are worth talking about (with Mr Miyagi and Daniel Larusso). I didnt like the other one (or was there two) at all.

Colin McRae Dirt Screenshots

Some screenshots from Colin McRae Dirt on the Xbox 360

thanks to forum.oxm.co.uk for these.

Promoting the blog

Received some pointers on increasing traffic to my blog (thanks to the folks at www.bloggerforum.com).

These are the sites to visit:


www.spicypage.com
www.mybloglog.com
www.alexa.com

Give your Xbox 360 it's own blog!

Came across www.360voice.com today.

Apparently their site communicates with your Xbox 360 whilst you're using the console which in turn creates a blog/feed based on your gaming activities.

I signed up so I'll see if it's any good. Might be able to put the feed on my main blog.

There's also a forum which seems quite busy.

Leicester Races

Went to Leicester Racecourse last night for a corporate race evening. I spent my entire lunch hour checking out the form and tips on the Racing Post website.

First 5 races our horse either came second or third each time.

Last race of the evening...our horse last all the way until the finishing straight. Made a last minute attempt and won it!! Penang Cinta netted me about £30 which basically paid for the whole night's betting.

Xbox Live Buddies...

Thanks for visiting. What do you think of the site?

By the way for £2.59 a year you can have your own domain name. I registered badboyhouse.co.uk with 123-reg (see banner at bottom of page) who were the cheapest I could find.

Sensible World Of Soccer on the Xbox 360....more news

SWOS fans and forum regulars are getting the opportunity to try out sensible world of soccer on the xbox 360 before it's release date. Codemasters are hosting a community day although places are limited and I guess will be given out 'lucky-dip' style.

I signed up the minute I saw the message on the forum. Fingers crossed!!

Top Of The Leaderboard!!!!

For about 2 minutes tonight I was top of one of the leaderboards in Project Gotham Racing 3. It was in offline career mode - cant remember which trophy race it was.

Anyway by the time I realised I should have taken a snapshot of my success I'd slipped down to something like 270th if not lower.

Never mind. I'll be quicker next time and get a photo.

badboyhouse.co.uk is finally mine!

I originally registered badboyhouse.co.uk for free via the OfficeLive program. The actual host of the domain was MelbourneIT.

Well as it turned out you get what you pay for. Whilst the domain was free you were tied in with the OfficeLive program for at least 60 days. This meant having a rubbish template based website all tied in with Microsoft.

To cut a long story short I managed to cancel the whole badboyhouse.co.uk domain registration via Microsoft and MelbourneIT (the domain host). I contact Nominet in the UK and just got the domain cancelled (rather than transferred). I just then had to keep a close eye on the nominet site so that I could re-register the domain and own it all myself. 123-reg took care of this for me.

A lot of hassle just to save the 2.50 yearly domain registration fee!