360

I though, since I had so much fun with wireless yesterday, I'd try to hook up the 360 in my den. It's been dominated by the kids since Christmas but now the weather is improving, they're less inclined to veg out, so I took my chance. I have all intentions of going wireless but thought better of it and plugged in with the cable. Set-up was easy and I was downloading demos 10 mins after plugging in. I bought a gold membership and a few thousand points so if anyone fancies showing me around Gears of War, my gamertag is Gamesauce.

I'll start commenting on the games when I've played for a few days.

Wireless Nightmare

Router went tits today, the first words I heard on entering the house were "no internet", great considering I wanted to work from home for a couple of hours. So, off to PC World. Headed straight to the router wall and grabbed the one slightly "behind the curve" of techmology to ensure compatibility. 15 mins later I was home, 60 odd quid lighter. Then the real fun began.



I thought I could remember my login/pass for BT Openworld but alas, and depite the handy wizard on the router (asked me which country and which ISP) the error log confirmed my worst nightmare "Login/Password incorrect". The routers web light was red and I was red. Red at the prospect of phoning "BTs wordwide web of bullshit" So, starter for 10p (I wish!) Got through to India within about 5 mins on Swan Lake, asked me a bunch of security questions, asked me some seemingly random questions about my BT account and then asked me how can I help today, Sir. "I need my log/pass" I reponded, asked me another few questions (router type, which lights blinky? blinky? etc) then said they would have to tranfer me to another 'department'.I then got though to a yorkshire woman who I did my best to butter up, with some success, she asked me the same shite but in a more disarming manner then put me back in touch with India. Yep, back again (by this time, my first question was "can I have your NAME, your JOB TITLE & the DEPARTMENT you work for please, Sir/Madam" Anywho, ended up back in England after another pointless round only to hear the voice of a *truly* jaded and completely disinterested man, ahhh I thought "a true professional" Sure enough, in 30 seconds, he had reset it all for me and google booted up.

Anyway, all this techmology is far too bloody complicated. If I weren't a bit nerdy and hadn't set up a router before, I wouldn't have had a bloody clue where to start. I had a simple problem with my log/pass, bloody good job I knew the other 10 settings that make it work!

Salt and Pepper's Here!

I bought these in San Francisco at the museum. Deb has since made them a token of how our relationship is going, all is well at the moment as you can see below. She moves them apart when the bricks are down..

Give me the blandest thing on the menu.

First of all, hero's award;


Damo's grindin' - He means it.

Art Alert!


I have to issue a disclaimer with this image. These 2 are very much in love. Brought to you by Cadbury's - Melt in't gob.

IT'S A DEAL

That's commitment.

Shower of gayers.

Takeaway award - China Chef - Doncaster.