Plane of NonConformity

Microsoft has made some great improvements to the Interface on the Xbox 360.  I had written an outline of what I thought made a great Xbox game back in 2004 when Xbox Live had been out about a year and a half.   A few of the items on that list have been fixed with the blade interface on the 360, but some are still left up to the individual ...

Video games just don't hold the same appeal this days compared to a couple years ago.   I still play my Xbox everyday but some days I only play a few minutes to keep my streak going on 360voice.  Rock Band has been the only recent game to hold my interest for more then a few months.   I feel like there is almost too many games out there.   My ...

I've made a lot of trips to my local UPS store this month.   Most of them dealt with the normal shipping and receiving of Christmas gifts.  But I've made five trips for warranty replacements of Xbox related items.  I've picked up my empty box for the racing wheel so it doesn't start my house on fire, an empty box for my broken Xbox 360, a box ...

It's happened again.  My Xbox 360 froze up when I was playing Assassin's Creed.  Then when I rebooted the 360 it started playing the opening animation but never made it all the way though.   It did this a couple times then I let it rest for about a half hour disconnected from the power supply.  I reconnected the power ...

I set a goal for 2007 of getting a total of 20,000 Gamerscore on my Xbox 360.  The last couple months I have become obsessed with reaching my goal and I needed a good way to track my progress.   I was also coveting the API Samurai badge on 360voice.com, you know that place where you Xbox 360 blogs about what games you have played.  That and ...

An update to the 360voice main blog back on Oct 24th had a comment that they were working on a new feature.   I had a sinking feeling that it would be related to what I was doing at Gamerscoregoal.com.  360Voice.com has announced their new Challenge system.   It's a system were you invite a few of your friends to a timed Gamerscore ...

Hello.  My gamertag is Carsinigin and I'm obsessed with video games.   I just bought Shadow Run at full price. I swore to myself that I would wait until it was reduced or I could get it though GameFly.  As I got back into my car, in the Best Buy parking lot, I realized that I had just purchased Forza 2 from GameFly and that ...

I got the dreaded red ring of death tonight well I was in the dashboard voice chatting.   WTF????   I wasn't even stressing the Xbox's cpu with a game.  The hard drive was not under strain of I/O.  There was no DVD disk in the drive to spin.   After one year and a month my 360 gave up on me.

I've been using xboxfriends.com for a long while to track who's playing what on Xbox Live.   A Digg Artical's comments lead me to XBList.  It doesn't have the external notification system but the interface is a lot better and it looks like it's been updated in the recent past.  It's also programmed in the .Net framework and scraps ...

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