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My Xbox 360 cd drive died

I'm not feeling too well at the moment, so I was settling down to some GRAW2 online when a god awful noise start coming from somewhere in the room. Initially I thought it was the TV spitting out some interference, but then I noticed it was coming from my Xbox 360. It honestly sounded like an angel grinder, so I quickly turned it off, only to find that it now won't read any disks, and makes very loud clunking noises when I put one in. I have tried turning it on it's side, different disks reboots... everything I can think of but with no joy. So now I am on hold trying to contact the Xbox 360 customer support line... joy. Shoddy shoddy Microsoft.... especially when I have only had it about 3 months and played on it a relatively small amount of times. UPDATE: So I finally got through to customer support and they are sending me some stickers.... for UPS to send it in. I then have to arrange a pick up and can expect to get it back in 3 weeks!!!! I remember I had a similar problem with my launch PS2 (you can expect the odd problem from launch machines) and Sony sent a new one to my house for me to swap with my old one, no waiting 3 weeks for repair! I also had a problem with an Apple battery which they just sent me a new one for... I didn't even have to send the old one back... poor service really for such a big company like Microsoft (not even an apology over the phone mite I add!).
Meta tags: Games

Google stole my personalized home page

A while ago I posted about google’s personalized home page yet today it disappeared, along with all my settings! I was even warned by Colin when it happened to him earlier that morning! What’s going on at Google, are they having a spring clean. It seems very strange for a company which tends not to want [...]
Meta tags: Random

Apollo RSS reader example

Following on from my previous Apollo example I have taken the Custom Chrome project and added a simple RSS reader. I do mean simple, as it takes the most recent post from this blog and displays it in the application. It also turns the label which contains the title into a link to it on this [...]

Elgato Systems: Customer service

Most blog posts you read about customer services are about how bad they are, and how they don’t give a crap about your company.  This however is about how customer service should be! I recently brought an device for watching TV through my Mac from The Apple Store. I got it working although I had [...]
Meta tags: Mac OS X, Technology

Apollo Custom Chrome example

I had some problems getting custom chrome to work with Apollo, and also getting a code behind files to work. I am one of those people who is a bit of a tidy freak with code, and try as much as I can to seperate things sensiably. I also find I much rather developing functionality in [...]
Meta tags: AIR, ActionScript, Flex

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