I hate myself so much right now.

Not really, but I'm very annoyed.

You know how I said my Xbox broke again? Well, it was still under the warranty they giveyou when you get it back from RRoD. It had 8 more days under that warranty. I've only just got my act together now.

So I have three options, a) ring up and try and convince them that it should have been an extra year's warranty- likelihood of succes little to nil. b) pay $100+ for a repair. c) try and force a RRoD, and tell them the ethernet port's also buggered.

I've already managed to RRoD, but when I turn it off and on again, it's back to normal. And I don't really want to melt the insides at all with towels/hairdryers etc.

I'll probably just pay, but that's the situation.

I joined up at Giant bomb, because my RL friends have, but I probs won't be active. My username is stair, if you want to add me.

I bought an external hard drive with my K.Rudd money... or rather the $900 that my Grandma said she would have given me if she was eligible but took from my Grandpa instead. It's a Western Digital 640GB with two firewire ports as well as eSata and USB2. It looks like a hardcover book.

And my Dad got a new laptop through his school's wholesale order, (paying $600 less!), so I get the 2006 Intel macbook that he's replaced with a new one. Unfortunately, it has some massive problem with the motherboard that will cost lots to fix, so I have not much more than an hour of doing anything more strenuous than word-processing if it isn't plugged into the wall. But I'm never that far from a powerpoint, and I do most of my other stuff on my iMac.

That's all. I'm way pissed at the Xbox, and myself, and it's almost the end of term and revision time.

Til next time, Stair.

I have no idea what, but I can't connect to XBL. It just doesn't recognise it's plugged in to the modem, or that the modem is there... before that, it was connecting maybe for five minutes and then dropping out. I tested the connection a bunch of times, but I've had responses ranging from connected to the internet but not XBL, to the modem but not the internet, right down to not even finding the modem, which is where I'm at now.

This is major ball suckage. I only got it back probably not even two months ago after it RRoDed. I have no idea if it's a problem with the Xbox, or the modem, although the internet and wireless are working fine so I don't think it is the latter.

It really sucks, because I wanted to get the Lost and Damned, and the new Puzzle Quest soon. I have no idea whether or not I should send the Xbox away, or if I do, whether it will be covered by warranty (seeing as it just got fixed), or if it is, whether I will have to pay if they find nothing wrong with it.

That's all. I'm thoroughly dejected when it comes to gaming. At least I can still play offline, but I get bored doing that. I got a bunch of achievements in Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise and in GTAIV because I had no distractions. I might go for the ones I need in Dead Space. But they aren't real if they aren't on the internet...

Oh, and uni goes back for the second half of the semester this week, which is also not so good.

Stair.

Hey everyone. Time for your periodical report.

I've been listening to the radio a lot, so the song of the week is: Triple J.
Ie. the radio station. I've discovered I can stream it through itunes, so that's what I've been doing. If you don't know, then Triple J is pretty much the best station on radio in Australia. It's a public-supported youth station that plays a lot of non-commercial stuff. And they have no ads, except for their own and other ABC stuff.

Anyway, it's pretty good. I never used to listen to the radio except in the car, but now I can all the time. I was listening in the car on the way home this afternoon/evening, and they had a live set they had recorded in the studio with Lily Allen. It was pretty good... I'm not a big fan, but her voice was good with just the piano and a guitar playing all the stuff that is so over-produced in her songs. They've also been playing a lot of stuff they recorded at the Falls Fest.

What else? I have not really got any gaming news, except for that I'm thinking of buying Peggle on the XBLA. It's kinda addictive. I still need to get the GTA and Fable content too... I haven't made much time for games recently.

I'm on my mid-semester holid... sorry, my mid-semester "break from formal teaching". So I've got a fair bit of work to do, which is no good. Work was alright today, but terrible last week, when nothing went right. Today was pretty easy though, until the cleanup, when the dodgy newbs had no idea what they were doing.

Anyway, I've droned on. Next time, I promise, I will have some gaming news. Lost and Damned, maybe, next week. I shall do a write up.

Smell ya later, as a little douche once said.
Stair.