Category: Personal
I think it’s fair to say that once you’ve got to know a number of well respected individuals within the web design and development ‘blogosphere’ it’s easy to feel that everything you write on your blog must be absolutely right or failing that, a total revelation for your readers which will bring you fame, glory and tits, sorry I meant ‘hits’.
Sometimes I have to step back and remind myself that actually this is ‘my blog’ and I can write whatever I want on it, hell I can even be wrong if I want, there’s nothing wrong with being totally and absolutely off target once in a while.
Sorry, just wanted to make a note of that. As you were!
Just over 2 years after I first got my Xbox 360 and I have been graced with the 3 flashing red lights or “Red Ring of Death’ as it is affectionatley known.
I’m particuarly narked as I just bought GTA IV a few weeks back and hadn’t had a good chance to play it until tonight!
So, I called Xbox support here in the UK (though I think I was re-routed to India along the way) and my fears were confirmed. My Xbox is dead. They are sending me a returns lable via email and have asked that I wrap the Xbox in bubble wrap and place it in a plain cardboard box. When I asked if I could return it in the original box they stated that under no circumstances should I return it in a box with any Microsoft or Xbox insignia. How strange… perhaps they are trying to hide the number or returns from UPS staff here in the UK.
I gave the nice lady a bit of grief about the fact that I had to provide my own coffin for faulty hardware that they had produced but to their credit they confirmed that the returned Xbox would be subject to a further 3 year warranty and that they would provide me with a months free Xbox Live Gold membership. Not bad.
Apparently it should take 3 weeks for my Xbox to be returned minus the three red rings. I’ll keep you updated…
Update: My Xbox 360 arrived back home today, just 1 week to the day after it left, it’s been to Germany, had the mortherboard replaced and a new faceplate (Thanks Microsoft!), the old faceplate had been vandalised by my son. I also got a months free Xbox Live Gold Membership.
Add to this the fact that it’s significantly quiter when idle than it was before, I’m well impressed. Good job. :)
Happy Birthday to me. 31 today. :)
That’s it. Ta ta.
I’m just not in love with ‘regular’ blogging like I was before. The spark has gone and it’s not coming back. Add to that the fact that I simply don’t have the time or the inclination to blog like I used to… it’s not you, it’s me.
So it’s time to think about how to adapt this site to better reflect the time I can commit to it on an ongoing basis, perhaps integrating feeds from other areas of the web where I am more active; Facebook, Flickr, Delicious and Last.fm. Nowadays Twitter seems more and more appealing, providing a outlet for short and sweet comment on life.
For a long time I’ve been hoping to migrate this site from Textpattern to Expression Engine so this seems like the ideal opportunity to do so. I’ve had an initial tinker and it looks like I should be able to migrate all the content fairly easily. From there I’m going to have a play with the fantastically clever Expression Engine ‘FeedGrab’ plug-in by Andrew Weaver which should allow me to pull together the various strands of data associated with me from across the internet and present them in one location.
So if things get a little funky here, you know why. :)
A couple of days late but please join me in congratulating Paul Cripps on his position as Senior New Media Designer/Developer/Monkey at Nine Four. And thanks Chris for the kind words of advice. :)
