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LiveGuy said: Hi LiveGuy followers! You can now follow @VodafoneUK. They’ve hidden 20 new HTC Magic handsets for you to find and win during May. #VFTH

LiveGuy said: LiveGuy has left the building.

LiveGuy said: Farewell LiveGuy followers. I'll miss you!

LiveGuy said: @fraseredwards Ah Mr Edwards, we meet again. For what I've been up to since the end of the campaign visit the website...

LiveGuy said: @SaifSiddiqui My real job you ask? I'll simply be transported back to the factory and rebooted for another campaign.

LiveGuy says goodbye

And throws in a song for good measure

LiveGuy said: I am thinking of getting a LiveGuy duvet cover made. Can I interest anyone else in LiveGuy merchandise?

The Last Post

This is my sign off blog to all of you who have been following the LiveGuy campaign over the last couple of weeks. If you have enjoyed it half as much as me then good on you. If you won, all the better: you are in possession of a fantastic piece of kit.

I had planned to reveal my real name in this final blog but instead, to celebrate being LiveGuy, I’ve actually changed my name…to LiveGuy. Over the last two weeks I have come to realise that LiveGuy is less a campaign and more a state of mind. Once a LiveGuy, they say, always a LiveGuy.

I do hate goodbye. This, though, may only be au revoir. Stay tuned for the possibility of “LiveGuy II: The Return of LiveGuy…”

With best wishes,

LG

Ode to a netbook

Since today is my last day as LiveGuy I wanted to speak briefly about something without which none of this would have been possible - and I'm not talking about Jeeves (sorry Jeeves).

When I first accepted the role of LiveGuy I had reservations about using a laptop that was the size of my hand. "How will I type?" I thought. "It's simply too small". How wrong I was. Within half an hour I had acclimatised to its size, within an hour I was using it as freely as I would any other laptop and by the end of the day I had become genuinely attached to it. That may seem weird but I think it has something to do with its diminutive stature. It would be hard to create an emotional attachment to a normal sized laptop but with one so small I do believe it's possible. Nature has designed us to look after small cute things (babies, puppies, Kylie Minogue etc) and I believe there's something of that with the netbook.

It is also super fast - remember it has mobile broadband - and utterly convenient. I could get online anywhere I wished. Whilst on my LiveGuy travels I blogged, Facebooked, Twittered and Picasa’d on buses, in cars, on pavements and whilst walking, all with a breakneck speed connection and a total absence of cables and wires.

And you know what else? I LiveGuy’d 11 cities in 12 days pretty much without a single map. Whenever I posted a clue or visited a point of interest it was internet research that had taken me there. This, I believe, is the most impressive underlining of the netbook's powers, that an entire national campaign could effectively be powered through something so tiny – and yet so effective.

Finally I can exclusively reveal that since my return my netbook has not left my side. Of course by that I do not mean it has grown legs and learnt to walk – it’s smart but not that smart – but it has for me become as indispensable as cheese or breathing.

Enough from me for now. I'll be back shortly with a final goodbye. For now, though, goodbye.

LG

LiveGuy said: I hate goodbyes but today is my last day as LiveGuy...for now at least

LiveGuy exclusive: my life after LiveGuy

LiveGuy talks about the difficulties of life without the big red coat

This is the end beautiful friend

LiveGuy affords himself a smile after his Absolute Radio interview

LiveGuy said: I am finding it hard coming down from the experience of being LiveGuy and wondered if anyone had the number for LiveGuys Anonymous.

LiveGuy said: @ewarwoowar LiveGuy is stuggling to come to terms with not wearing the big red jacket. He has clearly become institutionalised!

LiveGuy said: It's a terrible let down to no longer be recognised in the street. This must be what Rick Astley feels like.

Say it ain't so

Has LiveGuy really hung up his famous red jacket for the last time?

LiveGuy said: I wonder if DC Comics would consider turning LiveGuy into a comic book hero?

LiveGuy reflects

My active life as LiveGuy finished on Friday 28th November at 6.20pm, the time I left the studios of Absolute Radio having just been interviewed live on air. Since then my life seems to have been taken up by a succession of friends informing me that I was LiveGuy, they were a Vodafone winner and that I owed them a netbook. That, and plenty of sleep.

As Jeeves would no doubt tell you if you could get him to speak, the two weeks of LiveGuy were unbelievably exhausting but also a 100% bona fide giggle. I did two years laughing in two weeks – indeed I did two years everything in two weeks (stop sniggering at the back). What I mean is that under normal circumstances I would never have seen so much of the UK in such a short period. Plus by the very nature of being LiveGuy I sought out locations of particular interest; everything from Roald Dahl's birthplace and the Theatre of Dreams to The Cavern and the road where Ozzie Osbourne grew up – not to mention the inside of at least 200 coffee shops.

During my travels I was struck by many things, none of which, thankfully, was a brick: the innate politeness of the British public at large, the conspicuous investment and urban regeneration of our major cities, the ever improving levels of customer service in Britain and the fact that you can never rely on other people for sound directions. The impression my whistle stop tour gave me is that Britain is doing fine and you should not let anyone tell you differently.

The concept of LiveGuy was masterful and to live the life of LiveGuy an enormous privilege. It was, though, only made possible by you. Yes, you. All of you. Winners, near-winners, bloggers, Twitterers, those of you who heard about LiveGuy and passed it on, even just the casual observer. You are all integral to its success and, unless you have particularly short arms, can give yourselves a pat on the back. At the apex of this pyramid are the winners themselves – all 44 of you. They say that you can't get something for nothing. Apart from not knowing who 'they' are, it seems clear that 'we' have bucked the trend and judging by the joyous responses of some winners, including a number who chased me from city to city, the notion of something for nothing is one that is hard to beat.

As for me I have start living a normal life again, which is a crying shame. This includes leaning how to stop eating out, something I have yet to master.

I'm going to sign off now. A few more tidbits to come tomorrow – including a LiveGuy revelation...

TTFN,

LG

LiveGuy said: LiveGuy is wearing his LiveGuy outfit even though the game is over

LiveGuy said: I am wondering why the water has been turned off in my flat