As with all new Macs ‘Betty’ comes with an inbuilt iSight and I thought I should do something with it so following in the footsteps of Raj and many others I’ve decided to take one photo a day for the next 365 days.

Below is Day 1:

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So I started to watch Fully Flared and popped the disc into my XBOX 360 and was greeted with the image above.

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of visiting me at ‘The Lodge’ I have the exact same TV as the one pictured which caused my brain to turn to shit as I saw two TVs, one inside of the other.

That is all.

I had for whatever reason at launch got sucked into purchasing the ‘extended warrantee’ (read drop pants and let me take advantage of you) from EB Games.

Although after almost two years and laughing at both Fu and Doug (both of which have had 360′s die on them) Karma had its way and decided my number was up and took the one thing I loved (sorry Hels) away from me in the form of a Red Ring.

I was shattered but slightly optimistic at the possibility of exchanging my old and floored console for a newer model which included HDMI, better cooling and a smaller chipset.

Walking into EB Games this afternoon I was cautious and guilty at the possible chance of taking advantage of their extended warrantee and getting a free upgrade to a better console.

Greeting the young service attendee at the counter I was already thinking of my excuses as to why he must give me a new console and not one of the refurbished ones out back.

‘What’s wrong?’ he asked.

‘My XBOX is dead’ I replied.

‘Fair enough, let me get you a new one’ he quickly replied.

‘What?!’ I thought to myself. Where is the Spanish Inquisition? Are you going to run any tests on my console?

Before I could finish those thoughts our young attendant had returned with a brand new XBOX Arcade pack under his arm and proceeded to cut it open.

Within a matter of seconds he had handed me a brand new console which included HDMI and wished me better luck with my new console.

It was a easy as that? I was shocked and amazed. The company I had grown to hate for taking advantage of its customer and ridiculous prices had not only been efficient and helpful but asked no questions in the process.

So I have now ended up with a shiny new console that has HDMI, is a fuck load quieter and cooler than my previous console.

If I could I would climb to the highest rooftop and yell my unconditional love for EB Games who have looked after me but you know I have games to play so maybe next time…

Cheers,

this happened to me on the weekend in making a purchase for my birthday present from me to me. i was set on one option had to wait a minute and within that minute my mind had changed. in the end i just had to go with a gut / reflex instinct where i ended up purchasing the item that i liked ‘at that momemt’

anyway something that has bothered me for a long time is my gamertag on xbox live. a gamertag is your id to the gaming world and everwhere i look on xbox live i see sweet gamertags that are original and interesting.

i have already changed my gamertag from liptonrod to the current igav and want to change it again to the ‘ultimate gamertag’ that fits me.

seeing that i can’t make decisions and am also a rather unimaginative being i would like to throw it out there to the general public to suggest a suitable gamertag for me.

leave a comment with your suggestions and hopefully a nugget of gold will be polished and left waiting for me to pick it up and make it my own.

cheers

To try an combat this and also gain some results (fingers crossed) I have enlisted the help of a personal trainer and this morning was my first session.

I didn’t realize that the sole purpose of a personal trainer is to serve your ass up on a plate and make you wish you were dead.

I had my ass kicked from here to Tiananmen Square.

But hopefully with the help of my trainer and also making an effort to eat and live more healthily I’ll be able to shed some of the weight and get into some shape that doesn’t resemble a salad dodger.

I’ll keep you posted…