You’ve probably heard about EA’s latest RPG “Mass Effect” for Xbox360, but did you know it’s coming out for PC very soon too?

Ok, but did you also know that you’ll need to activate the game in order to play it? Oh yes, Mass Effect (PC version) is using SecuROM, which requires online activation.

But it doesn’t stop here, 10 days after the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check the CD-key. If the key isn’t private, the game stops working. It does this every 10 calendar days.
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Poker must be one of the biggest underground crazes on the internet, with millions of people playing for fun and also to try and make a quick buck.  I haven’t learnt how to play Texas Hold Em, but I was pretty good at standard poker at uni and made a bit of cash, until my friends worked out I could count cards!

If you want to see how the pros do it, then tune in tomorrow from 8PM GMT when 888.com have asked me to let you know that they will be broadcasting live the final of the World Poker Crown. If you’ve been living on another planet for the last couple of years and don’t know who 888.com are, then they are one of the biggest online gambling companies out there.

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Marriage. Like death, it is inevitable. Ultimately you will encounter that one “right” person and make the leap, or maybe you will simply reach that point where it dawns on you that if you don’t hurry up and pair off with somebody you are going to grow old and die alone.

We are all selfish creatures, to one degree or another. Marriage will drive that last trace of selfishness out of you like nothing else. It’s like going from a dictatorship to a democracy, and those who aren’t prepared to learn the subtle arts of compromise and diplomacy are headed to divorce court. As Connected Internet’s primary focus is technology and the internet, I have compiled a short list of Tech And Internet Don’ts For The Newlywed Or Soon To Be:

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I run more than fifteen websites monetized by products, ad networks and affiliate programs. Adsense, Tribal Fusion, Clickbank, Commission Junction… I tried em all. They consistently deliver the goods and allow me to bum of royally. One can definitely live off the internet!

But occasionally, I need a spike of cash (like when the gf wants to go on a shopping spree or a family emergency comes up). To solve this problem, I simply turn to my cash cow… Digitalpoint. I snap my fingers and bam! A grand flows in. Well… not always a grand. Sometimes just 4.95 grand. Sometimes less. <grin>

Want to know how I do it?
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Connected Internet was three years old a few months ago. I totally missed the anniversary and I hadn’t realised I’d been blogging for that long, and I still find it funny that something that I started to test blogging platforms to potentially launch a blogging service for the ISP I was working for at the time, turned very quickly into a serious ‘hobby’.

To start the birthday celebrations, I’m starting a new series ‘Connected Internet Vault’. This comment reminded me of one of my favourite posts which I’d totally forgotten I’d written, and made me realise that a lot of users didn’t even know existed. So, in the Vault series I’m going to trawl though my archives one month at a time to highlight older posts that I think users might still find useful or interesting to read.

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