First today I would like to thank all of you who read and applied what you learned from last week’s column. It was regarding the cloud storage platform Dropbox.com. Because some of you used the link I mentioned, I gained an additional 2 GB of storage. They have a maximum of 8 GB allowed free so if you still wish to sign up and haven’t yet, this is still a good link, http://bit.ly/aszzao.
No, I don’t really need that much cloud storage but it is a fun experiment…so thanks again to those of you who registered!
I gave you all a link several weeks ago that generated a lot of email, bit.ly/965cg3. It is a scrabble-like game site called, “SSCrabble”. I am sure the naming is due to copyright issues. Many of you wanted to know other games or gaming sites I regularly visit. Well, I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon but I don’t game as much as I used to in the last century.
I stopped buying gaming consoles when they changed too often to the latest and greatest and my old games were no longer playable. So, “No” I don’t have an Xbox or any of the latest. I gave up somewhere after the Atari 5200, Nintendo (NES) and the Sega Genesis. I finally put them in a garage sale with all the Mario games and stopped trying to keep up.
For a while I bought a few PC games but found that unless you upgraded your computer to the fastest and best, the newest games were unplayable. I think my favorite PC games were the Myst series and Morrowwind. I still have both and occasionally fire one up.
I play a couple of other online games now. I wrote about Evony.com last year, which too time-consuming so I quit that one. Today I wanted to mention a couple I occasionally play, just to relax sometimes.
One that I like is called, “Defense” at bit.ly/cQoWtu (shortened link for space). You set up an arrangement of armament to defend your area from attack by land and air. There are many games at the main site and when you get there and see the link, chop off all but the “.com” part to see them. The main site is onemorelevel.com. I will shorten the others here too. 
Next is, “Dogfight”, bit.ly/agxQ35 think WWI.
Last but not least (my favorite actually) is, “Double Wires” at bit.ly/cy0uEj, which plays best in MSIE. Once you get there you should get a gangly Spiderman type guy who jumps around a lot. If you get to the main ‘onemorelevel.com’ page you may need to go to DoubleClicks.info and type in the actual link which I will post here (www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble). You can find a mass of games are at miniclip.com too.
Have fun gaming! Let me know if you like any of these and tell me your favorites.
