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XBox.com gamertags

Mine:
jtokash’s Gamer card

Major Nelson’s:
Major Nelson’s Gamer card

Update: It seems to work fine in Firefox 1.07, Flock 0.4.8 Beta and IE 7. I had a little hiccup this morning where I thought it was broken, but Firefox was just in a wierd state.

The XBox 360 Homebrew factor

Microsoft goes on and on about the security measures they are taking with the XBox 360 to prevent me from running code written by unlicensed developers. It drives me crazy! I’m paying $400 on 11/22/05 for a COMPUTER that I can’t run my own code on. I can’t stand it.

My original XBox streams video from my PC, plays really old games that I’m fond of, runs Linux, etc. After I retire this thing for game playing, it will still be useful in many ways. If Microsoft had it’s way, though, I would not be able to do these things with my XBox.

I know I should vote with my wallet and not buy console game systems because they all try to lock out homebrew, but I’m just not that strong-willed.

EDIT: Regarding the Media additions to the 360: Yes, it’s great that Microsoft added these features, but you can’t say that there is no longer a legitimate reason to run un-licensed code on the box. Microsoft has not predicted all useful ways to use the XBox360 and baked them in.

XBox Live Feature Request

I’m looking forward to 11/22/05. The XBox 360 looks great. The new XBox Live will have a lot of integration with the website. I’d like to see a photo sharing section where you can post in-game screenshots. Of course, this would require that most 360 games support screen capture and upload, but that sort of thing is no doubt all ready built in for debugging purposes.

Revolution Controllers – TODAY!

Check out this video to see how you can play games TODAY using the same principles as the Revolution controller. The process is documented here and requires a Gyration Ultra mouse and an ASCII grip one handed PS1 controller.