Xbox 360

I've had a 360 for about 4 months now and I never really tried setting it up as a media center. I run wireless N at home and I didn't want to shell out the bucks for a WAP that would do N. Well, I decided to just go ahead and get the wireless G and I'm so glad I did. I got the wireless USB NIC that is made by MS for the 360. It got great reviews and was pretty cheap too (I bought it with Best Buy points). The cool thing is that I've been changing all my DVD's to AVI so I could build a Ubuntu media box but the 360 can stream them from my big server and play AVI's, so I'm just going to use it instead... YAY saving money! It also works with WMP 11 so it has all my music, family videos and pictures on it. It's really cool because now I can sit at the TV and scroll through all my movies, select one and play it. Also, the music player has a pretty cool screen display when playing music. Here's Hayden looking tough in front of it.


It looks really cool in 1080p!

I had some trouble with the 360 wireless only allowing TKI encryption of its WPA key... but that was a quick fix. It doesn't have the 270 Mb connection my wireless N has... but 54 Mb is all good. I even got in some Halo 3 on line... wow I suck! I have to say Microsoft did a good job with their on-line content. I found a TON of Guitar Hero songs, picked up a bunch of new skins and even played some Burnout Paradise. I'm going to do some dogfighting with Ace Combat 6 tomorrow... and then maybe some Gears co-op. Goot suffin!

Seri got some sunglasses for the summer which she loved. I can't believe she will actually wear them. Hayden wouldn't wear hats or anything... he'd freak if you put something on his head. Seri will wear hats all day... but hates shoes. Weird huh?


Other than that it was a pretty slow day. We discussed the placement of all the plants that we bought. They should be in soon... I am not looking forward to all the work involved. I think I inherited my mothers Polish thumb. The Polish thumb is like a green thumb, except you can only grow cucumbers successfully, everything else dies. Mom could kill a plastic plant... but managed to grow enough cucumbers to feed a small country every year. That meant I had the joy of growing up with all sorts of cucumber meals. Cucumber bread, cucumber lasagna, cucumber tea... you ever have to go to school with a bag full of cucumber jerky? That ain't cool! It's like asking to get beat up!

But I digress...

Here's the lasted Iron Man trailer. It's good ju-ju. I have to say this is the first movie that I've been really excited about for a while. I hope they don't screw it up. I'm not a huge comic fan but Tony Stark is a really great anti hero... and I think Robert Downey Jr really 'got' the character. Now, I don't know how much acting is involved for him to act like an egotistical alcoholic.. but, as long as the film is good... then it's all butter.

Whelp, time to hit the hay, I have a big day of saving the world tomorrow... one e-mail at a time!