My Xbox is poorly
Argh!… We turned on the Xbox 360 earlier, and what happened?…
THIS:
So after approx 30 mins on hold to Xbox support, I finally get put through to a call centre where a helpful man takes down my details and registers a free repair. Whilst looking at the serial number label I took note of the manufacture date… 3rd December 2005! Today was my Xbox’s 3rd birthday!
*sniff* :’(
UPDATE 15th Dec: A brand new healthy Xbox landed on my doorstep this afternoon!
BBC Internet Blog: How to start an HD channel from scratch
Andy Quested has just posted an interesting entry on the BBC Internet blog called "How to start an HD channel from scratch":
I can only image the conversations John Zubrzycki (BBC Research) had with set top box manufactures in late December:
John:
"We are going to do a trial of HD on digital terrestrial and need to develop a set top box"
Manufacturer:
"Great, we can get our development team across it. What's your timescale and how many units do you need?"
John:
"Well it would be good to have say 500 for a trial in June"
Manufacturer:
"June, that's June 2008?"
John:
"No, this June - in time for the World Cup."
That was probably followed by the sound of the phone going down!
Head over and read the full article if this kind of thing tickles your fancy...
Google Reader is really starting to bug me
There's an annoying bug in Google Reader that causes the unread article count to increment before you're actually able to view the article.
Eg:
The problem first reared its ugly head a few months back, with it happening more frequently over the past week or so.
Is it just me, or is it annoying the hell out of anyone else too? 
Oops – Looks like I was hosting dodgy content after all!…
After asking for more info regarding the warning from Google, Stopbadware.org sent me a review of my website. It looks like I'd been hit by a WordPress xmlrpc exploit before I'd had chance to patch for it. Oops!
My transparent bridging post had been altered to include a bit of HTML code to call an external URL in an IFRAME. I've no idea what was on that page, but no doubt it was malicious content targeting unpatched web browsers.
This Stopbadware blog post has more info...
All clear now!...