H3 (TGWSNBN for long..)

Well, this post goes out to Hoji.

I totally missed last night.

I got to confirm that I'm not all that bad at Grifball, I feel as if I "almost" beat your friend there but well..you know how that goes. I still can't believe I got a melee kill with the ball, he's really good heh.

I've been playing WoW a little bit, helping a friend get started actually, so that's going to take up quite a bit of time this weekend but I'm moving the Xbox back into my room so I can at least see who logs in if/when they do.

Ah, random thought!

My dad, after seeing and getting to know my computer, appropriately named "Gaming-Dream-01" has decided to get one as close to it as possible without breaking the thousand dollar mark. He ended up getting a decent computer, a little slower than mine at 2.2ghz dual core (amd) instead of 2.4ghz quad core (intel), and other than that "about" the same... at least we both have 2 gigs of ram, are running Vista Home Premium, and have GeForce 8800GT's as our video cards.

What have I created...

Although at first my father had given up trying to learn the controls of the xbox, he's been watching me have too much fun trying to kill the flood... So he's back at it! My father is a bit weird, he started my gaming habit at the age of four fighting the british, spanish, french in the original, Pirates! for Commodore 64 (We still have the console, and yes it still works!). Now, on top of what I've already said, he's also played the Call of Duty series religiously, at least when I actually buy it (skipped number 3).

He's come a long way, from Commodore 64, Atari, NES, SNES, Gameboy, PS1-2, PC, Xbox, and I've followed him for the most part, leading him back to consoles with the Xbox, I can't wait to play Gauntlet with him in fact, we used to play that all the time to the point where I would just stare at him funny if he started running off to kill some ghost monster thing while I was waiting for him to come unlock a door, eventually it would end up getting us stuck.

Update on the Greenville LAN Queue messages: I logged in this morning, and found that three issues had been escalated and issued to me from Greenville, South Carolina. I'm sorely tempted to tell my boss (The plant controller [head accountant, deals with all the money]) that I need to take the company van and drive down to South Carolina to go fix a printer apparently, since I'm not hired yet though, I think I'll just keep that to myself and as a joke to my co-worker Jerry.

Windows Media Center Extenders!

Well, judging by the title you probably wouldn't have guessed this post was about an Xbox huh? huh?

Anyways, for the past few days I've been experimenting with my router(Belkin), my pc(Vista), the family pc(XP), and my Xbox(Guess...). What for you might ask...well...to play all my favorite tv shows and movies over my tv via wireless link to my Xbox that's what for! I didn't even know this when I purchased my Xbox360 but it doubles as a "Media Extender" what that means is supposedly you can use it as somewhat of a tivo with playback from your PC that you connect it to.

After 5 hours of talking with both Belkin and Microsoft, I finally gave up trying to use it as an extender and settled for being able to have it look through My Documents, find videos, music, pictures, and display/play them on my TV. Sure I lost some functionality, but at least it works darnit! (By the way, as a Media Extender the Xbox can only hook up to ONE pc, but as just a normal Xbox, it can view and play any files in any shared folders on ANY computer in your network!)

What this Means: I can now download my favorite anime from www.dattebayo.com (Currently Bleach ep. 170) and play it over my TV (or any tv in the house) using my xbox while I'm on the PC doing other things, chatting it up with friends, grinding/fishing in WoW, all that good stuff.

Also, no Blu-Ray Drive on your Xbox? No big deal! You can stream HD content EASILY.

Basically, I'm getting a 42" Toshiba LCD here in...about 3 weeks, I can set that tv up in my room, hook my xbox up to it, and play anything I want on it from my computer Note: I'm buying a DVI to HDMI cable as well ($35) so I can play PC games over it if I want.