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This won’t count as 2 posts today, pretend it is only one. Or I should actually say, ” Don’t expect two posts a day, I’d love to do that, but it is almost impossible.” Sorry I am throwing you off balance into some inconsistent land. But, there is something I am announcing I have been wanting to announce for about a month…

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at Big Ben Patton’s Place…

A contest EXTRAVAGANZA is being held!

Some of you may already have heard and participated in this wonderful contest, but I would love to announce it for those of you who haven’t!

This contest has over $2000 worth of prizes!

I better get down to telling you what’s going on and how to enter. First, as a little advertising fun, I have prepared a video. The video is NOT perfect. There were things I could have done but I don’t feel like doing it over.

The video, the voice at the end sounds bad. I don’t really sound like that.

Onto the prize list.

Advertising:

3x 125×125 Banner on BigBenPatton.com for 1 month ($30)

Consultation:

2×1 hour consultation with Jason from TheUniversityKid.com ($80)

2×1 hour consultation with Ben from BigBenPatton.com ($50)

1×1 hour consultation with Mattaw from MoneyBites.com ($50)

Wordpress Themes:

1x copy of “Fresh News” the latest wordpress theme from Premiumnewstheme.com ($100)

1x copy of a “Revolution” wordpress theme of your choice from BrianGardner.com ($80)

Books

1x copy of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income from Problogger (25.00)

1x copy of Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life from EcoIsomniac.com ($20)

Ebooks/Video:

1000 copies of “Seven Ways to Live a Better Life” by Jason at Blog Premiere Forums

2 copies of Referral Madness A 2 video set by MooneyQuest.com ($200)

2 copies of The Ultimate startup guide for blogging by BigBenPatton.com ($200)

Entrecredits:

200 Entrecredits from BigBenPatton.com

500 Entrecredits from Donace of rants.thenexus.tk

1000 Entrecredits from George of gpearce.co.uk

Hosting:

12 months of HostGator’s Swamp plan valued at ($180) : This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is their ultimate package. Thanks again to http://www.hostgator.com for donating this for our contest.

12 months of James Germana’s Ultimate hosting plan. Valued at $500. This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It also is a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is James Germana’s Ultimate package. Also the lucky contestant who wins this prize will also get 3 hours of business consultation from James Germana. This alone is worth $500. That brings the total value of this prize to $1000. A Huge thanks goes out to James Germana for making this prize possible!

Paid Reviews:

One paid review on BigBenPatton.com ($30)

One paid review on Robinhaney.com ($25)

Software:

1 copy of Instant Blog And Ping from BigBenPatton.com ($25)

5 copies of special offer manager from BigBenPatton.com ($25)

2 copies of the list building system from BigBenPatton.com ($50)

Those are the glorious prizes, and I did copy the prize list, otherwise it would have taken a really long time to put all those in, add the inks especially, and keep going back and forth. Thank you Ben!

Now, you should know how to enter this contest extravaganza too. There are a few ways, and you still have time left.

Subscribe to RSS feed – (required) – 10 entries – Of course, this is how you get into the contest, targeting the RSS feed. Go for it!

Commenting on a post – 2 entries – this is an easy one. Just add a valuable comment to one of his posts. Some of you may still have problems with commenting, or maybe it is me that discourages comments, but commenting with something valuable and more than just an I agree, you can earn good entries by that. Be sure to use the same email address for commenting as in the RSS feed.

Blog about the contest – 20 entries – this is simple too. Just what I am doing. I may be over doing it a bit, one’s post should be about 100 words, and mine will end up like 1000. Be sure to link back to the original contest post.

Podcast about the contest – 50 entries – You a podcaster? Here is your chance to earn some real points. It should be 30 seconds or longer, and have some words too in which you link to the original post.

Vlog about it – 100 entries – Vlogging = video blogging = make a video. Not too hard. I did it. Now it is your turn. I call you lucky if you have a mac, I don’t think you even need a camera! It should be 30-60 seconds.

Those are the only ways, but be alert! The video is worth double now! 200 entries!

Get out there and go for it! Earn some prizes! Don’t hold back!

I am so tired, good night.

Well, star wars the force unleashed is video game. Who here is not in favour of video games? Or star wars? When I first heard or actually saw about this video game, I wasn’t very interested. But it has come more and more into my liking, and now I want it. 1.) I saw a video of it, not a documentary, but someone playing it, though it hasn’t been released. I was sad at how the main character held his lightsaber behind his back. 2.)But something changed my mind. On spike tv, they advertised how they would later, after A New Hope, talk about the new video game StarWars the Force Unleashed. Well, of course I did not see that, but the next day (Saturday) I went on to spike.com to give a link there for my post about the star wars movies playing. Something caught my eye there, one of the featured things was something on this new videogame. 3.) I watched a video talking about the new game, and learned much. This is what changed my mind.

You play the game as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, whose name was not revealed. You also get to play as Darth Vader himself in the beginning. At first (when I saw the first youtube vid of the person playing it) I thought it was stupid to play as the darkside, one of the reasons I didn’t like it. But I got over that and think it is interesting to play as a sith.

The video (be sure to watch the other four about the same game, they will automatically go into the next so no worry about trying to switch)(unless you want to) says that you get to learn more about the character of Darth Vader, see who he really is. It is set in between episode 3 (revenge of the sith) and episode 4 (a new hope). This will be interesting to see how that works out.

It talked about something called duel mode, where you were not just the sith. In duel mode you were the jedi, Anakin, Luke, Mace Windu, Yoda, Obi Wan, and so on. That sounded really interesting. Also in the game, I don’t know what part, you were other characters such as Princess Leia.

One of my favourite features of the game, there are multiple endings. It talked about how there some choices for you to make in the game, and everyone’s outcome would not be the same. It even hinted that the choices had something to do with being a jedi instead of a sith. Also the game is a little different for each gaming platform, and thjat brings me on to my next half of the post.

I cannot go without talking about making money, and it is true for this post. I want that video game. And I want it for a Wii platform. I do not currently have a Wii, but it would be good for many reasons. I am getting a little sidetracked from my post about Star Wars the Force Unleashed, so I will talk about the Wii later. I am planning to buy one, that is all. I am going to set a goal to make at least 500-600 dollars, but preferably more. With that 500 dollars I will buy a Wii, all the needed accessories, and a few games. (I have some in mind). I will tell more about the Wii and my goal tomorrow.

Well, it may have been a trick, but there was a window that came up and it said updates were available for DivX (which I didn’t have). I decided that this DivX thing might be ok and installed it. It plays videos very well. I love how sleek they are. The videos are also in very high quality. There are some problems though. I do not think that it is free. I think you have to pay and what I have is only a 30 day trial. If I am wrong about this please notify me. I was going to do a review on DivX but I cannot spend the time to. But if you are looking forward to a sleek player and high quality videos go for it.

I have lots of ideas for blogging today, so stay tuned. Some I may not have time for and therefore will be posted tomorrow. But have faith that I have ideas in my head.