Now I’d like to take a moment to rant about some of the adverts at the bottom of the contact list on Windows Live Messenger (and MSN Messenger too I presume). It seems that the adverts displayed are selected by my age, sex and location - so all I see are adverts for phones, higher education grants and Habbo Hotel. I really cannot understand why on earth they insist on showing me Habbo Hotel adverts: I will never use it because it is a piece of tripe.

One of these adverts features 3 little Habbo Hotel people standing, dancing similarly to the 1936 version of Homestar Runner and you see their little chat bubbles moving up the screen: “Bring your friends”, “Things are only just getting started!”. How the hell can that be fun?! It is just a chatroom with bells and whistles that aims to make as much money out of you as it can. It seems that by purchasing online currency by a number of means, you can add little items to your rooms. Oh, joy of joys, now more 13 year old American pop-trash retard girls will come into my room saying such abominations of the English language as “omh u hav a lmp in ur rm!!!!11 dats so radd!“.

Now, kudos to the inventors - they have doubtless made a lot of money out of said girls, which is never a bad thing - except that they insist on targetting adverts at everyone aged 11-18. Unfortunately I fall into that bracket, and as a 17 year old male from the United Kingdom, that apparently means I have the same tastes as a 13 year old girl from Seattle, where it is so boring that they have to use such websites as Habbo Hotel to enjoy themselves. I despair.

After watching the HTTP messages floating in and out of my computer for a bit, I managed to grab the URL of the advert mentioned earlier. You can view it by clicking here, which will open the Flash (.swf) file at the size of your browser window. Coincidentally, manipulating the query string for that flash file changes the URL opened when you click on the advert, so if you click the advert from the link I gave, it will return to this blog post. Woo.

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