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.

Tomorrow it looks like the Digital Economy Bill will pass and we’ll soon get disconnected for downloading things we shouldn’t be. You know if this would have happened three or so years ago, I would have been outraged, claiming things like “this will only lead to more restrictions” and “it’s against our rights”.

The problem is that although people will and probably have made those arguments against the bill, nobody has the right to illegally download content – even though everyone does it. Naturally though there are parts of the bill that make no sense. However, the principle of stopping people from pirating content is in the right place, the way they’re going about it isn’t.

Instead of making a important post about the Election, I’m just letting you know of a new project I should be working on soon. It’s called B4HD (Get it?). It’s a blog that regales you with tales of yesteryear, at least tales about specific video games made over five years ago. I’ll probably be writing about SimCity, Omikron and Blade Runner – yes I know, those last two were probably bad but I was young.

Anyway, you should check out the holding page.