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How much spam is out there on the internet today? Do you ask where it comes from, it’s advantages and effects on all systems. Spam comes in two forms; the first is the destructive, loaded with viruses and destructive software to try and destroy your machine. The second is for commercial gain, but isn’t the second also an economic effect?

How devastating can this economic spam attack affect people and companies? No one truly knows but between terrorists and criminal gangs how much money do you think they have acquired through these actions?

Now the process of attack can come from spam email and bots. A bot is an automated software which runs it’s actions over the internet. Companies like Google and Microsoft use bots to scan websites for a series of information to help build their search engines.

A terrorist could use a bot to attack banking websites to try and either knock down that system or exploit it for gain. And I theorise that they are using these types of bot software to attack systems already.

I am also theorising that governments and agencies are behind the times. They haven’t got any bots in play when they could easily make them to help combat, track down malicious websites, online terrorist groups and other activities that are bad.

Internet bots waging war on each other. Trust me, that could easily happen next week if not next year.

On MySpace the interface is left to be desired, you have the ability to modify it how you wish. But the way the site takes ages to load and when it has, it’s all out of shape extending to a huge size which simply can’t fit into your browser.

There is something said for a simple design and MySpace doesn’t really have that. Although it has the features like uploading your images, movies, creating a blog and messaging your friends. There is this added disease that you have to collect friends and establish online relationships. It continues to extend the page down which takes even longer to load and even longer to read and even longer yo get to the end of the page.

The tradition of simple emails, legitimate forums seem to pass into an era of been there done that. All these features which everyone have, still work and will always work.

But with other factors such as facebook.com hitting MySpace there has been a 2 million drop in it’s user count. A year ago MySpace was getting 8 million visitors but now today it has 6 million. Are they migrating to facebook which is by far a better system to manage all those functions. The fact that facebook has better servers and getting a user load of 14 million and rising could the migration hit MySpace even harder?

I see facebook winning this war, although the battle is not yet over it has the ability to adapt which MySpace lost long ago. There is still the problem of people addicted to the internet addicted to social networking websites. Alas not much the world can do about this.

Everyone has a choice and the numbers certainly show that these websites are certainly a big part of the internet. Along with the gaming front, it seems to me the masses have spoken and facebook will be victorious.

When I think of James Bond, I think of a slick stylised action film with a lot of fun and crazy gadgets. When I watch James Bond which is nothing like the originals and is loosing everything that is Bond… Well this is another film all-together!

Bullets are flying everywhere, locations like underground caverns, boring hotels and a desert… not exactly exotic. The lead women, well they aren’t that impressive either, nor for that matter is Daniel Craig. I don’t like his looks and his acting is rather bland. His eyes have cold death behind them and he has no charm, style or substance within this role. In my view Craig has to be the worse James Bond ever to grace this franchise.

What was the storyline, well in fact it was really non-existent. Oil, water, what ever you want, the bad guy protecting it was useless, the script was worse than a B-movie and the action was poor. O yes, good photography can help, but not by much. Fancy computers with what looks like… wait, is that LCARS? O what a rip off of the Star Trek computer systems. That has to breach some kind of copyright surely?

What else could possibly go wrong? Like everything! O well, remind me not to go see the next one if it still has Craig in it.

1.5 out of 5

It’s snowing fake snow and raining lots of rain. Another bleak movie based on a computer game. Along with all this weather in a winter scene of sky-scrapers, low level slums and a lovely waterfront scene you have a movie.

Max Payne is just full of pain and you are taken through the story of why this happened… slowly. It took a while for any action to happen and when it did come it was already the end of the film. So what happened in the middle? Well Payne was trying to be a pain in the ass to everyone else who clearly had no friends left. There was this one cute girl, but she ended up dead and her sister, well she ends up with an Uzi.

I think they wanted a detective movie along with the action, but I guess they forgot to read how to do that. Maybe they need to go watch a couple episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, might help John Moore with a better script. But I guess he wants to keep as close to the computer game as possible, but in the end games have such a limited story, in its-self that tends to make a bad movie as I have seen by past displays.

Mark Wahlberg and Beau Bridges played their characters well the rest of the actors won’t make it out of the B movie on this performance. There was a question why everyone sees the exact same thing (flying demons), but this might come later if they decide to make another film. I might be interested in seeing that, but if it is anything like this movie I might wait till it hits the TV.

2 out of 5.

Have you gotten this email recently, well I have had quite a few of them recently. I have a feeling that it is a phishing-scam. I warn you not to click on the link, I for sure haven’t. I hope egg.com are warning their customers of the scam also.

From the spam I have received regarding egg.com I think someone  (or a group) might have been trying to use email addresses with my domain name. Trying to create a number of credit card accounts trying to break into egg.com’s security. Alas attempting at fraud and other data-crimes of suspect nature.

So my suggestion to those who are Egg customers, your data and credit information might have been comprimised and for those who aren’t. Simple don’t get an Egg card and I hope you delete the email off your PC.