It’s back! Hurrah! And, to my surprise, it works. Sadly, not everything is perfect with it now, but I can manage. Firstly, the clips that hold the faceplate on have been bent so the top of the faceplate is a few millimetres proud of the rest of the 360’s case. Secondly, I’ve had to re-download about half of my XBLA games as they’d reverted to trial versions (when logged in as another user). Why only about half of them, I …
I got a parcel in the post today. I thought it was going to be some Xbox 360 game and faceplate I won in a competition a few weeks ago, as I wasn’t expecting anything else (besides my 360, of course, but that was coming via UPS not Royal Fail). Anyway, somehow, I managed to guess what it was simply by rattling it. And what was it? This! It was a slightly belated birthday present from my sister. Told you …
Package Progress Location Date Local Time Description BARKING, GB 27/05/2009 21:03 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 11:14 ARRIVAL SCAN BRUSSELS, BE 27/05/2009 6:57 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 5:29 ARRIVAL SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 27/05/2009 2:49 DEPARTURE SCAN 27/05/2009 2:14 ARRIVAL SCAN FRANKFURT, DE 26/05/2009 23:43 DEPARTURE SCAN 26/05/2009 19:25 ORIGIN SCAN DE 26/05/2009 0:21 BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED Wow! Might be here tomorrow then!
At work, I get a lot of phonecalls from those recorded messages offering me cheap mortgages, help with my debts, free international calls, discounts on badger feed and that sort of thing. You know the ones – you pick up the phone and say hello, then after a couple of seconds a recording kicks in explaining the offer then asking you to press a number. Of course, on my own phone I’d hang up before they even explained who they …
Here’s another issue of everyone’s favourite free downloadable gaming magazine that no longer exists! [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=090519132541-2a1dabd8f46745198e1c2a6696c73c93 docname=ugvm02 username=deKay loadinginfotext=ugvm%20Issue%2002 width=420 height=297 unit=px]
Remember that magazine I used to edit? Years and years ago? Of course you don’t. You probably weren’t born then. Well, using the great online service Issuu, I’ve brought them back from the dead! There aren’t any new issues, but you can “enjoy” reading all the old ones again, and shed a little tear for the time when we were at the forefront of online gaming magazine technology. Or something. Behold: Issue 01! [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true documentid=090519132449-5014c4483b584e24a4c4bfca9d657be2 docname=ugvm01 username=deKay loadinginfotext=ugvm%20Issue%2001 …
Over the last few weeks I’ve been becoming more and more frustrated with Google’s search. It’s only really one complaint, but it’s a pain. In the olden days, when you searched for words that Google thought you may have misspelt, Google would provide all the matches for what you typed in with, additionally, a link to a search for Google’s spelling correction. That is to say, if I searched for the word ‘stuipd’, it would show me all the matches …
In an unwanted return to the “My 360 RIP” series, my lovely 360 Elite has just died, with the E74 one-red-light error. Bah. It seems this error is covered for repair even though my warranty expired only a few days ago, so I’ve sent off a repair request to Microsoft. Watch this space!
Apparently, it was broken. But now I’ve fixed it! Thanks @jaytay 🙂
Today, the new search engine come encyclopaedia come scientific calculator Wolfram Alpha became available to the public. Sadly, virtually everything I’ve asked it so far has come up with “Wolfram Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”. In one case, though, it managed a nice diagram: The question I asked was “Who is the richest?”. I don’t know what to make of the answer. You can try it for yourself here.
I got another one of those read-it-or-fall-for-it domain name expiry scam at work emails today. Like the last one, it relies on you panicking when you read it and think your company’s domain name is due to expire – today – and you hurriedly send off your pennies to this company in order to keep your site running. Of course, that isn’t what’s happening. This company are actually selling you a search engine submission subscription. Something which is pretty useless …
Haven’t seen it on the TV yet. Also, I think I may actually prefer the components over the final product, but anyway.
