I've had a relatively interesting weekend (plus Friday), so I'd like to record it in this blog entry.

Winner

On the Coke Zone web site, you can enter codes placed on the sides of Coke bottles. These codes amount to points, and the points build up and can be converted into gifts. So far my wife and I have already converted 200 points into a Coke branded Skoody.

We get through quite a bit of Diet Coke (mainly at the weekends), as per this photo, taken during one of the mass-code-entering times that I set aside to input more codes in to the site:

Occasionally, Coke also give you the chance to enter a competition when entering the codes. The most recent one was for an Xbox and Kinect bundle, and on Friday I got an email telling me that I had won! So some time in the next 28 days, I should be the happy owner of another bit of gadgetry.

The funny thing is, when I got married, I'd agreed with my wife that I wasn't going to buy a games console: the only way we would have one in the house is if I won one, and she didn't think I ever would actually win one. So there you go.

I think we'll mostly use it as a media playing device rather than a games console: we don't have a working DVD player any more, so the Xbox will easily fulfill that role. Additionally I should be able to use the Xbox as an Extender for Windows Media Center to view content from my PC on the TV (which is good as the Xbox will take up the second and final HDMI slot in our TV, which would otherwise be used with for my laptop).

I am thinking of getting Fifa 11 and my wife is interested in the Zumba Xbox game. Apart from that, I'm not sure what other titles we would want to get. If you have any suggestions (of games or anything else we can do with the Xbox/Kinect), please let me know in the comments. Please note, we won't be buying any violent games.
Things I like the look of, I'll add to my Amazon Wishlist (once we actually have the Xbox in our house - until we actually have it, I don't want to start getting extras for it).

Loser

On Saturday I inadvertently lost my identity!

The first thing I knew about it was when I saw a Tweet by @digitalmaverick claiming that I was about to present a taste test of different types of milk, associated with the #boring2010 hash tag. I didn't know what any of it meant.

After a Tweet by @seany85 it turned out that there was someone else with my name giving this presentation (@wowser). A Tweet by @thenewbrunette provided a link to an article in The Independent about the #boring2010 event, organised by @iamjamesward. It would have been nice to know about this event before the day it took place, as it sounds the like the type of thing that might have been quite fun to go to. Hopefully there will be a #boring2011.

A little later, a Tweet by @shadowdaddy revealed that my home page was listed as the address for @wowser, which is where a lot of this confusion seems to have come from. By then, I had decided to take matters in to my own hands, and contribute a milk taste test via video. Here is that test:

It has been quite an odd couple of days. The world of social media and online marketing really did collide in front of me in quite unpredictable ways!
Has anything like this ever happened to you? What did you do about it? Please let me know in the comments.

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Update 13/Dec/2010:
A very good round up of #boring2010 is now available for those who want to know more about the event.