My Xbox.....

I loved my Xbox 360. At times it helped me escape boredom, burn time, or simply enjoy killing some of my friends in a game over Xbox Live. Yesterday however, all of that changed. I was watching Seinfeld before I had to go to work, when the box froze. I leapt up and turned it off, then on again..... but to no avail. Three flashing red lights were the only life in my beautiful box.

After researching this problem on the internet, I discovered it meant that I had a hardware fault, something that had been happening to many of the first Xbox 360's, due to several unforseen problems that hadn't been discovered in previous extensive product testing. I went to the good ol' filing cabinet and found the receipt from my 360, my 'proof of purchase'. As I had expected, I was 2 months out of the warranty period.

After I awoke from the concussion I recieved after attempting to embed my face into the filing cabinet, I sent word via sms to my friend Adrian. He told me that Xbox had extended warranty in the case of the 'red ring of death' (flashing red lights) situation, and now I still had 22 months left for warranty, and I needn't have damaged the filing cabinet with my head.

So, as I write this, I have just got off the phone with Xbox Customer Support (the best customer service and support from any company I have dealt with), and they are sending me an email with details as to where and how to send my Xbox for repair. However, since I am required to send my 360 away, I will be without it for 6 - 12 weeks. Guess what? The long awaited Halo 3 comes out in just under 4 weeks, meaning when I collect my pre-ordered and pre-paid copy, I'll have to look at it for 2 - 8 weeks. I'll spare you my rage, but don't worry, I have been swearing a lot.

I think I may have to steal Adrian or Nick's 360 for a while.....

Finally..... WEBSITE GLORY!!!

Finally, last holidays, part of the dream came true. We put our website on the world wide web. It's called Pariah Productions, and I would love for you all to check it out. Oh, and please feel free to become a member on the forums. If you want the url for the site, its http://www.pariahproductions.net, but just click on the link, its easier!

The webiste has bios, pictures, and all our movies, and a couple of other things. We continually update it, but since we're busy with uni at the moment, no major updates will happen, but in 3 weeks or so we should have 3 more movies up, as well as more pages, such as a guest profile page.

So yeah, Pariah Productions, please check it out!

Eve of the second assessment.....

After assessment one, we concentrated on things like form and content, and as a result I have been trying to improve my blog, flickr account, and delicious account.

In blogger, the work I have done to change the looks of my blog involves a number of things. I altered the html coding in my blogs CSS (cascading style sheet) so that the background colour was changed from light grey to dark gray, so that the main section of the blog and the posts within it stand out more. I changed the colour of the blogger toolbar at the top of the page from blue to silver so it would fit in better with my colour scheme and add to the [hopefully] good aestthetics of my blog. i then changed the sizes of the header of my blog, and the post titles, so that they are more eye-catching and I think that the blog looks better overall as a result. Since the direction I went with my blog was to write posts about things I enjoy or have opinions on, I continued that direction and tried to include some of the more interesting aspects of my life, and more opinionated opinions.

In Flickr, I changed the tags on my pictures so only the pictures of interest to other students had the mpi104-2007, as opposed to before when everything was tagged with mpi104-2007, so this will help the relevance of my pictures. I have uploaded a lot more pictures that I like, so hopefully this will reveal a little bit more about myself, as well as improving the form and content of my site.

In delicious, I have really expanded its contribution to my workflow, and changed it so now rather than just bookmarking main sites I visit, I have bookmarked every site that I regular, and some new ones that I just found really interesting. Again, this should help the content of my account. I have bundled all of my tags so this improves usability and ease of use, as well as the bundles down the side of my page looking cool. Lastly, like in my flickr account, I changed the tags on my bookmarks so only the bookmarks of interest to other students had the mpi104-2007, as opposed to before when everything was tagged with mpi104-2007.

Well.... I have looked at the checklist continously for the past week.... and after assuring myself for the 28321983219th time that I have completed everything on the checklist I'm going to go get some food and some sleep.

See you tomorrow blog.

Edward Norton

I think Edward Norton is one of the most underrated actors ever. Every movie he is in is amazing, his performances are always above the bar and I think anyone who watches Fight Club and American History X will agree. He isn't in as many films as Brad Pitt but I think he is as good as or even better an actor.

Some notable films he has been in are:

1. Fight Club
2. American History X
3. 25th Hour
4. The Illusionist
5. Red Dragon
6. Kingdom of Heaven
7. The Italian Job

He has also voice acted on the simpsons.... any idea who he was anyone?

Don't cheat and look it up! guess!

Here's something scary.

Today I stumbled across this page. A four letter expletive comes to mind. China has 5 million more soldiers than 'the most powerful country' in the world! That is amazing.

Yeah so check out that page.... just a little reading to get you worrying.

Oh by the way, just so you feel safe, if a war breaks out with China, China outnumbers us 95 soldiers to 1.

Do you think that 73,872 Aussies have a chance against 7,024,000 opponents?

Just as well China are cool and we're on good ground with them.

One of the greatest MC's ever

Vanilla Ice is bloody cool. 'Ice Ice Baby' is one of the coolest songs ever, it had me from "Now stop- Collaborate and Listen!". The video clip is one of the coolest videos ever, I just wish he had less attacked career, he is awesome.

Stop dissin the man dawgs, y'all ain't got no justice man.

The Netherlands.....

As I'm sure all of you would have guessed the first time you laid eyes on me, I'm Dutch.

This means that I enjoy hagelslag, zoute drop, kaas, melk, poffertjes, pannekoek and stuff like that. However I do not like weed or raw herring, but if thats the sort of thing you enjoy... be my guest.

I have spent a considerable bit of my life in The Netherlands and I love it. I will be going back again towards the end of this year.

Pretty much all of my family lives in The Netherlands with the exception of me and my mum. Mum is the only van Dijk to have left the Netherlands and come to Australia, she blames it on momentary madness. I am the only van Dijk to have been born ouside the country as well.

Nu ga ik eten, misschien televisie kijken, zombies zijn lijken.

rrrrriiiiight.