My 360 is finally back from being repaired after I got the 3 Red Lights, its taken about 3 and a half weeks which isn’t too bad I guess. According to the attached letter my 360 had a problem with its DVD-Drive and Motherboard both of which were replaced, so I can’t really complain it was Free after all.

Well its been about 2 months since I last posted… wow so much for keeping this going!

OK so ill try and sum up the last 2 months in as little writing as I can:

• Got a nice new 32″ Samsung HDTV!
• Opened a LoveFiLM account (which is AWESOME)
• Went to Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California
• Got some ‘Lucky Charms’
• Got my Legendary Edition of Halo 3
• Got RRoD (Red Ring of Death) on my 360

There is more but I can’t really think at this second… so I’ll post again if there is anything major I missed about the last 2 months and hopefully keep this blog a bit more up to date in the future!

…is the cleverest psychological ploy ever thought up by businesses. The idea is that you can go to work pretty much at whatever time you want and finish whenever too, as long as you get your work done nobody minds. why is it so clever? well I don’t know but, for some reason I cant really fathom, I’ve been working from before 9 everyday and finishing sometime after 6 (mostly closer to 7 and even as late as 8 on the odd occasions)! I find myself thinking “I’ll just finish this little bit and then head off” before I know it I’ve been working a lot more than people who are on strict time sheets. I’m not the only one, there’s pretty much always at least 1 person in my team (of 10) at work before me and there’s only been 2 occasions when Ive been joint last to leave!

I guess as long as you are enjoying what you  are doing (like I do) it doesn’t really matter.

After being without Internet (at home anyway) for pretty much a month now, we have finally got it sorted! In the end we went with Virgin Media, while I’m pretty impressed with the speed (20 Mb/s) I wasn’t so impressed with the fact that we ordered it 3 weeks ago, a guy came out to “install” it 1 week ago and finally it has now been activated. By “Install” I literally do mean a guy came out and plugged the modem into an electrical socket for us… I’m guessing he didn’t expect we had a cable to our house already even though we said so a few times!

On a slightly different note, the previous two posts have been quick summaries of my first two weeks within MS, I wrote them like this as I haven’t had access to the Internet (at home anyway) during those weeks and so couldn’t write about events just as they happened. My intention for the future of this blog is to keep a record of any ‘key’ things that happen (either happen to me, or just things that happen that I deem interesting enough to comment on) rather than write about every little thing or every week that goes by.

Ive nearly finished my Second week at MS, well first ‘real’ week anyway! This is a short post because im typing it at work just before I leave and i dont really want to be blogging while at work…

Anyway, I dont have internet sorted at home (in Reading) yet and wont do untill a week on saturday now! But when thats sorted I will update here with some real posts about what I’ve been upto this week and last (and next)!