Probably another short one today as day will be a busy day, being my 21st birthday and all. Actually wait that was a lie, it is my birthday, but I probably won’t be that busy.

Seeing as I don’t drink, my birthday isn’t an excuse to get “wasted”, so the older I’ve gotten, the less I’ve celebrated it. The same will be true of today, I’ll probably just do what I normally do, buy stuff I don’t really need.

Trying not to sound like an old man – I know I’m not, don’t worry – but birthday’s don’t seem that important after you turn 18, after all once you’re 18 you can essentially do anything. But hey, let’s not turn this into a grumpy post because I’m not particularly grumpy or anything, just a little boring.

Anyway, this post has descended into weird territory. I’m off for cake.

I’m not going to claim to know everything about politics because, quite frankly, I don’t. However, there’s something about the Election that’s sparked up an interest. It’s left me reading newspapers, watching the news and occasionally refreshing BBC’s excellent online coverage.

As someone who’s never voted before, I’m enjoying the whole floating around between parties while discovering their policies. Luckily thanks to the internet – you might have heard of it – I can take a couple of quizzes or browse through their websites to quickly find someone suitable to vote for.

With that said I’m still in two minds. I’ve always been told to vote Labour but a few things, like war and the economy, they’ve gotten wrong, while the Lib Dem views on those areas kind of line up with mine. However, then I’ve got to consider would a Lib Dem vote be a wasted one but I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking that. Maybe if all those floating Labour votes just bit the bullet and voted Lib Dem, we would have a surprise result on our hands. But maybe this is just me rooting for the underdog again.

I’ll probably make a clearer and more coherent post come Thursday. Hopefully with some actual thought and decision behind it.

I’m not sure whether this is a big accomplishment but this is my 100th post of the year. For Blogizzle it’s something that’s never happened before – in actuality this is Blogizzle’s 207th post ever -  but it only goes to show how far is left in this ludicrous challenge.

Not even a third of the way through but despite having to play catch up and abuse the scheduling feature of WordPress every step of the way, it’s still going well. Here’s to the next 100, thanks for reading.

I commented on the Digital Economy Bill (Not DeBill, I hate that name) a few days ago and the whole story has been spinning around in my head for a while now. The problem is that even though the punishments are overly severe, nobody has the right too illegally download content they haven’t paid for.

It’s been really interesting, however, hearing the ISP’s responses to the whole affair, with TalkTalk’s response being the most surprising. For a company that, from past experience, offered loads of downtime and horrible transfer speeds, they seem to be the most vocal when it’s the government that enforces it on their customers. I guess they want to be the ones to do it, losing control or something to that affect.

It’s all just apart of making their customers feel protected. If a BT customer hears TalkTalk spouting all this, well, talk, they’ll be more inclined to switch to them to avoid any wrongdoing. It’s all very clever, whether they’ll actually take copyright holders to court over anything is a different matter though. It’s kind of tough to get someone out of stealing when they’ve been caught three times, no matter how good your lawyers are.

Now that the veil has kind of been lifted on Daniel Lipscombe’s (Former Reviews Editor at Nidzumi) upcoming project, why don’t we blog about it? Naturally I’ll be covering the design of the whole process but I’m actually more excited about the prospect of writing for the site.

Back in the early days of Nidzumi I occasionally wrote features called Back In Time. Now BIT were short retrospective reviews of old games – basically just an excuse to indulge in a little nostalgia. I only wrote a few of them but the time spent going back with a critical mind on games like Blade Runner, Omikron and SimCity were some of the most enjoyable moments while running Nidzumi.

I’m really relishing the opportunity of going back through the years and reminiscing with some classics, digging out some diamonds in the rough and having problems getting old games to work. Alright maybe not that last pint but it’s an exciting time, a brand new site and all.