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• Fun with homepage skinning on the Motorola Q

  A four day holiday ... what can I do? I know - I'll make a homepage skin for my shiny (well, actually kind of dull-black) Motorola Q. I just got the new Q in black. Its really nice - I like it a lot better than the original Q, though in this case Read More... Posted Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:21:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys

• Sign the HD-DVD petition!

  There's a grass roots movement to finally Deep Six Blu-Ray and encourage studios to see the light and move over the HD-DVD. You can find the petition here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/HD_DVD_Studio_Support There are also some interesting Read More... Posted Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:54:00 GMT by xmlguy | 3 Comments Filed under: Toys, In the news

• HD-DVD player arrived

  My HD-DVD add-on drive finally arrived today for the Xbox 360. Amazon.com had delayed it twice, so it is an understating it to say I was looking forward to getting it. Sadly all was not well. The HD-DVD drive's box was just sat inside a regular Amazon.com Read More... Posted Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:38:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys

• Xbox Live Video on the way

  Say what you like about Microsoft software, but Xbox Live on the 360 works great! The user interface is slick, fast and intuitive and it doesn't crash - or not often at least. Considering how complicated it is under the covers, it does a great job. Read More... Posted Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:59:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys

• HD-DVD is winning

  I made a trip to Best Buy this evening to pick up my first HD-DVD movies before the upcoming Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive becomes available, and "beat the rush". While "one swallow doesn't make a summer", there were 2 sections of HD-DVD Read More... Posted Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:50:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys

• My next car?

  The lease is up on my Infiniti in March, and while I love the M45 to death for its electronics, performance and comfort, 18mpg really sucks with gas being where it is. Given that March is only 6 months away, its time to start looking for my next ride. Read More... Posted Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:51:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys

• 5.5G iPods not what the doctor ordered

  I know (from the comments on MacRumors) that I'm not the only one disappointed by the new "5.5G" iPods. I think the expection was now fairly widespread that we would see the full-sized screen iPod this time around, given that its been a Read More... Posted Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:08:00 GMT by xmlguy | 0 Comments Filed under: Toys