Micro-Hell!
If you missed my twitter update, my Xbox 360 promptly died again yesterday. Needless to say I was furious. I spent 45 minutes on the phone this morning chewing MS a new asshole. The first rep had the audacity to sound annoyed that I wasn’t willing to wait 3-4 more weeks to ship it back again.
After promptly reminding him how much I spent on the console and the lack of service, I asked for his supervisor. Said person was equally unhelpful. Another 20 minutes later, he tells me they will send me a new one but only after I wait for them to ship me a return box for the old one. I’m leary of that happening however, with no other recourse, I’m stuck waiting. He did say he entered an official complaint to MS at my request. I doubt that will go anywhere.
MS got huge points for their XBL [1]Xbox live service however, their tech support rivals that of Sony. Unproductive, uncaring, and a flat out waste of time. If it weren’t for so many games jumping over to the MS camp, I’d probably give it up after my experience today.
I got unlucky enough to get one of the defective batches. MS has already corrected the error in newer models however, it does nothing to make me a return customer.
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| ↑1 | Xbox live |
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Folsom St Fair 2007
Like a tard, I ran off and left my camera at home. Sadly, I do not have a single picture to share. I know I know, I’m already annoyed about it.
Friday. I was busy running around getting errands done. I got almost everything before my friend showed up. I’m still missing a desk in my bedroom. I found one I like so far but still keeping my eyes open. Actually, I found several I like but they are full size desks. I just need a nook or corner desk. Since Ikea was a bust, Officemax is taking a close 2nd.
Saturday, Julian and I got up early to go score him a Magnitude ticket. I didn’t realize he hadn’t gotten that one so we had to traipse all over looking for it. My buddy Matthew finally helped us out as we were getting nowhere fast. Later, I left Julian with his friends to go hang out w/TFA. I felt a little guilty leaving him but I shouldn’t have worried. The dirty huzzy didn’t get home till 6am.
Sunday, the fair was good. Lots of eye candy. Some pleasing, some not so pleasing. hehehe. [1]Why is it always the one you don’t want to see naked that go naked? It was nice being out and walking the fair for a change. I’ve worked the fairs for the last few years. That said, after about 3 hours I was over it. I left Julian with his new found tour group and headed home. The rest of the evening involved me bouncing between the xbox and the PS3.
Monday, we just laid around most of the day. Julian was dead tired and slept well into the afternoon. I dragged him off to sushi and then a movie. I finally got to see Stardust. It was very cute. A nice feel good movie. As expected Michelle Pfeiffer was flawless. Robert Di Nero turned in a very hilarious performance as a swashbuckling captain who was secretly a “whoopsie”. I laughed so hard I spilt my soda. If you haven’t seen it, catch it before it leaves the theatre or add it to your watch list.
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| ↑1 | Why is it always the one you don’t want to see naked that go naked? |
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Cranky Spanky
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Busy Blues
Ugh. It is my Monday and I’m tired. lol. Very busy weekend. Folsom was a success. My friend had an awesome time. I’ll write more later when I can.
I get to work today and my schedule is completely screwed up. I’m reliever which means I bounce around the room every 15 minutes giving breaks. I think I’m just cranky from a lack of sleep.
TFA was in town on Saturday and we had a great time. On a side note, everyone keeps sending me kudos and asking when I or he is moving. I’m really flattered by all the well-wishes however, please don’t confuse my enthusiasm. I’m not into overnight marriages and neither is he. lol So far, things are going beautifully between us. We’ve only had small blocks of time together so it is still too soon to know where this is headed. Yes, I’m most definitely likely the direction things are headed but I’m content to let things unfold vs jumping in feet first. [1]It is good he lives in SD as I’d have a hard time doing that if he lived here.
I have some vacation days coming up the end of October and he is planning on spending a few days up here w/me. This will give us some quality time together and I’m definitely excited about that. I have more to say on the subject but time for my next break so it will have to wait.
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| ↑1 | It is good he lives in SD as I’d have a hard time doing that if he lived here. |
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Gay High Holy Day 3
I managed to recategorize the 2004 posts so far. Jesus H Christ Mary Joseph & David! I will never try to upgrade my blog w/o first doing a full backup again! Anyway….
So the last gay holiday of the season is this weekend, Folsom St. Fair. The city is already jam-packed full of guys.
Yours truly is going to be busier than a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest. The roomies bf is in town late tonight. I have a friend coming from Mexico tomorrow who has never been. TFA also surprised me, he has a lay over Saturday as well. Lord, the weekend was already busy but damn!
Even more, I have to run around tomorrow doing prep work. Thank the stars I dropped the laundry off already. Plus, I have to drive down to the Union Hall and drop off paperwork. [1]Big drama at work this week, more on that later.
OH! I almost forgot, the Xbox comes back tomorrow! Hopefully, it will be in good working order.
Anyway, a good weekend to all. I have 4 days off so I’m exited.
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| ↑1 | Big drama at work this week, more on that later. |
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Ooops! II
I totally fucked up tonight and corrupted my categories. Actually, I corrupted the entire blog but managed to fix it. However, I have to start over an reassign categories to all my posts! What a fraking nightmare.
If anyone knows of a plugin that allows you to batch add categories please let me know.
Geek Unbound II
So desire got the best of me yesterday and I ended up buying the new PS3. It was on sale so only paid a tad more than I paid for the Xbox 360. I have to say so far I’m not overly impressed. Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice console. But, to hear Sony talk, it blows the Xbox away. Not so. The graphics are about on par w/the Xbox 360.
I’ve always been a PS fan so I’m happy I managed to squeeze out the coin for a new one. It does play all my old games. [1]So far. I noticed a very odd glitch in that the some of the unused buttons actually repeat the primary button functions. I have the demo of FEAR on Xbox and I bought the full version for PS3. The xbox version looks much better. It may be because FEAR came out too soon to be radically re-written for the new PS3 architecture.
The big reason I made the purchase was for my favorite game, Ratchet & Clank. Adam clued me in a new version only for PS3 is coming out in October. R&C is my all time favorite video console game and I just couldn’t forgo being able to play it. I still play all of the last 4 versions often.
Microsoft gets big points for their online services. The XBL (Xbox Live) is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. Setup was simple and fast. The PS3, not so much. The menus are overly obscure and broken down too far. Some are even redundant. I also had a big problem registering my console so I could buy stuff online. Even though my billing address for my CC is my PO Box, it kept polling for my physical address. I had to call my bank, add it, and then retry it. Very annoying. MS charges for their online services but at $40 bucks a year, not a big deal. PS3 online is free however, another failure on the part of Sony. For such a nice console the online site is lackluster to say the least. The icons and logos are reminiscent of the old sega consoles. A huge disappointment. You can tell they really rushed it. I hope they get their act together and spruce it up.
The PS3 did have a variety of new ports this time for storage. Compact flash, SD/Mini SD, and Sony’s proprietary memory stick. [2]which never caught on w/anyone but Sony Sadly, no port for memory cards from the PS2. So you can’t port your saved games to the PS3. Another very annoying feature. [3]I found out from Adam, they do make an adapter. He is loaning me his. Such a sweetie. I have yet to watch any HD DVD’s on the PS3. I hear it is spectacular so I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
Over all, I think the consoles are pretty even on graphics rendering. However, Microsoft is the clear winner in mind. Maybe Billy is finally taking a page out of the Steve Jobs book and making his staff focus as much on aesthetics as function.
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Nifty Tool
This is cool! Ever have a website with a search box that you wished you could search directly from Firefox? [1]If you don’t use Firefox, shame on you. You know what I mean, the little google or yahoo search box built into the browser.
Well, now you can! I was catching up on my geek reading when I came across this little tidbit. You basically download the extension for Firefox. [2]Sorry IE7 fans, only works w/Firefox. Maybe you should make the switch. Then any page you visit with a search box, just right click inside the search box, click “add to search bar” and you’re done. You can now search said site directly from the browser.
For example, I setup my blog. I can click on the little search box in Firefox, select my site, and then search my blog for any term(s) I want! How cool is that? [3]If you are clueless as to what I’m saying, click the link for a screenshot preview.
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