Last night I was invited along to 1000 Heads in London for a gaming night.

I had already met quite a few of the people there at the recent Geek Quiz, but there was a load of new people to meet as well which was great. Add to that a big stack of free pizza, beer, gaming-themed cupcakes, the world cup on a big screen and just about every game console I could remember, and it was a pretty epic night.

Sadly my Mario Kart skills weren’t quite up to scratch, failing to make the final of the competition, but that was more than made up for by some seriously entertaining gaming, conversation and laughs with everyone there.

Check out the short video I took the opportunity of shooting below – pictures to follow.

Some of you may be familiar with the Student Lounge, a Microsoft site that lets students get together and discuss and blog about technology that matters to them.

Here’s a quick intro video on getting started with the Student Lounge and using it to get into blogging.

Recently I read an interesting post on Marc My Words entitled “11 Characteristics of Highly Successful Blog(ger)s”.

Being a leading evangelist at Microsoft UK, you’d expect him to know a thing or two about blogging, but he does seem overly critical of himself in his evaluation.

In an attempt to see how well I am getting on with this blogging lark – especially since I have been putting considerably more effort into my site – I have filled in my thoughts on my progress.

From one post every few months to almost daily now, I think the site has had a bit of a revolution – and a huge increase in traffic – to show for my effort.