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There are a bunch of good games for the Xbox 360 (Bioshock comes to mind) but lately I’ve been playing a bunch of Xbox 360 meta-games. Some of them are more fun than others.

Big Money no Rings

Prior to getting the red rings of death you often have a randomly freezing system. This game is played by crossing your fingers every time you turn your system on and hope that it does not freeze and you don’t get red rings. It is a pretty short game. For us it was about 2 days.

Best Buy Inventory Searcher

We had a replacement plan from Best Buy. The game was to find a premium system with HDMI at any Best Buy in Austin. The systems that were not premiums with HDMI were manufactured over a year ago and would be prone to the RROD again. This game is made more difficult by some quality Best Buy employees. “Xbox Premium with HDMI? Oh, you mean the Elite. We have those.” This game took us about 2 weeks and numerous phone calls.

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For the past few weeks I’ve been considering a Series 3 Tivo (and now the new Tivo HD) but Austin has switched digital and I could not find a list of channels I could not receive without a 2-way cable card.

Here is the list I got from Time Warner today. The list was a lot longer than I expected. Hopefully Google will pick this up and it will help others in the same situation.

Jessie and I just got back from a 7 day cruise and we very much enjoyed the trip. It’s the first trip in a long time where we were not ready to come home at the end. We were trying to figure out the best way to stow away for the next week.

We took a bunch of pictures and I put the best ones up for general viewing here. I’m pretty happy with how a lot of them came out and I’ve even used a few to make new headers for this site (one showing right now, others may rotate in).

We used the [asa link]B00065L5TO[/asa] for our

[asa link]B00064O89Y[/asa] to take a bunch of pictures while snorkeling and swimming with stingrays. It was a lot of fun.

We spent a while this weekend moving Jessie’s blog from dasBlog to Typo on Textdrive. This gets the last thing off the server in our pantry (formerly the server in the bathroom). She’s still messing with the tweaking the theme but it’s looking pretty good.

For those interested in redirecting using the Typo redirects table should check out this diff to make sure the redirects are working correctly. I went a little further and added a default page rather than the standard “Page not found” text. Here’s what I added to Jessie’s redirect controller.

from = params[:from].join(“/”) if params[:from].kind_of?(Array)
r = Redirect.find_by_from_path(from)
r = Redirect.find_by_from_path(“*”) if !r

And then I added one of her standard pages for the * (default) redirect.