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Assassin’s Creed is an excellent game. If you haven’t already played it, I suggest you go out and find a copy yourself. Well, this is an excellent live action rendition of the game, and one that we can all thoroughly enjoy.

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Today, I was walking through MBK, one of the larger malls in Bangkok. Amongst the various idiotic foreigners getting screwed on prices because they fail to learn Thai, I ran accross one shop. This shop carried every type gaming system ever created. There were Sega Genesis, Game Boys, Playstations, Xboxs, Famicoms, and even a classic Commadore system. On top of this, there were systems I didn’t even recognize like what looked like a purple Nintendo system that got sumo-crushed by a boombox on front of it. I was amazed.

I asked the owner where he got all this stuff because Bangkok couldn’t have provided all this, not with their economy. The owner said he owns the same type of store in Japan, and just imports it and sells it near the same price. I didn’t ask, because I knew everything in there was way out of my budget, but it is a store I will stop by again, just to see what else he can bring in.

Anyways, I stumbled around to this image and it just brought back memories. I remember playing my first Gameboy, and it was the old 1989 system. I also oned the NES and eventually upgraded to a SNES to 64 to Gamecube. I still haven’t gotten the Wii, but they are plentiful in Thailand, unlike you suckers still in America. Sure, its a couple hundred dollars more, but it might be worth it. After I buy my PS3 for Final Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Turismo 5, the Nintendo Wii is next on my list!

A couple of webpages advertising games (SingStar Pop and God of War) for the United States Playstation 3 gaming console were “compromised” says virus and internet security analysis company “Sophos.”

SQL injection vulnerabilities in the PS3 websites were taken advantage of, and subsequently, the hackers introduced a code that showed pop-ups. The pop-ups showed a false message telling the user that their computer was under attack by a virus. They would then be led to a website selling virus-fighting software. It’s a little black hat, but that is good affiliate marketing.

Graham Cluley, Technical Consultant at Sophos, has his share to say about the incident.

“There are millions of video game lovers around the world, many of whom will visit Sony’s PlayStation website regularly to find out more about the latest console games,”

“Most would never expect that surfing a website like this could potentially infect them with malware.”

“It is essential that all websites, especially high profile ones like this, have been properly hardened to prevent hackers from injecting malicious code into legitimate web pages.”

It is especially alarming that this could happen with such a large personality like Sony and the Playstation 3. The hackers could have easily used the code to do more harm to users, making them bots or drones for more viral maliciousness. Imagine how easily a hacker could take out Blogosis. Oh Noezzz…

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What is the best way to increase blog traffic? Start a contest. People want free money, so give it to them. You can’t just throw a contest and expect that traffic to stay afterwards. I feel like I have a pretty foolproof plan of what I am going to do to get that traffic, and how to keep it.

Here is the plan for the Monthly Blogosis Contest.

Every month there will be one winner randomly drawn. This winner will get a cash prize of an uncertain amount. Why am I unsure? Because it is constantly fluctuating, getting bigger and bigger. The prize: 10% of all my online income. This includes income from my Squidoo lenses, my other blogs ( moneyandblog dot com and stumbledhere dot com), my Adsense profits, any affiliate programs I use… absolutely every way I make money will give you a chance to make more money.

What? That is crazy, Justin! Hell yes it is, but I figure it’s the only way I will ever get traffic to this blog. Imagine that if in 1 year, I am making 10,000 dollars a month (I am only aiming for about 500, but you never know). That gives one lucky subscriber $1,000.

Justin! What do I have to do to enter?

• You will automatically be entered once if you subscribe to my RSS feed by Email.
• For 5 extra chances to win, write a blog post on your own blog about this contest, explaining what the prize and rules are (with a link back to this post, and one link to the Blogosis homepage ( www dot blogosis dot com)) and comment here with the link to the blog entry. If you have more than one blog, post it on that one too. (However, do not duplicate the post. Google hates that.)
• For another 5 chances, create a permanent link on your blog to this Blog entry. Comment here that you added the link, with a link to your homepage for me to see. On the first of each month, I will post a new entry for you to update. Remember to update the link and post every month as linking to the old posts deems it invalid, and you will not get the 5 extra chances.

So, what is the total prize so far? Well, not much. With Money and Blog being my first blog, and the one making most of the money (from Sponsored Reviews.com) I have about $10 from that, and about 13 dollars from Adsense. That makes the total 10% about $2.50. I know that isn’t a lot, so what I will do for the month of January is give you a little push. The winner will get an extra $20 dollars (plus the 10%) to celebrate my 20^th birthday on January 19^th. On top of that, I have $25 dollars on my Amazon.com account that I will use to buy the winner something (the prize must be under $25 dollars with shipping).

What is the point of this contest? Obviously to increase traffic to this blog, as well as my RSS subscribers numbers. I feel it is completely worth the money, as subscribers are hard to come by without the right connections. This is my attempt to make those connections.

So don’t miss your 11 chances to win this contest. At the moment I only have 1 email subscriber, so your chances are sky high on winning this.

Winners will be announced the 1^st of every month at approximately 12:00 pm (noon) Central Time. Ending time to gain chances to win will come 2 days before that at 12:00 pm.

For more updates on my wallet giving you money, Subscribe (and also get your chance to win.)

• P.S. Entrecard Credits have now been added to the prize stack. Click here for more info.