Happy Holidays!

We had a good Christmas up at my Mom and Dad's. My cousin Jeff and his new girlfriend Wendy stopped by for Christmas Eve - it was nice. Got lots of fun stuff to play with, most notably a fuel-cell powered electric car - looking forward to getting that running... Also got a new "rotary tool" (ie. Dremel) since my old one stopped working - and a Guinness shirt - which I am now wearing to work...

Gizzy had some issues boxing day evening so I had to drive him to the emergency vet clinic in Brampton yesterday - seems he hurt his back somehow and was in some pain so he's now on pain killers. I think last night was his first good night's sleep in a couple of days - hopefully nothing serious. Everyone is doing well - not much else going on...

Squirrels - still....

The traps are set, "Critter Ridder" is sprinkled all over the attic, "Rodentex" poison bars strategically placed in the attic.

If this doesn't work, the pellet gun is next....much as I love nature and little furry critters, this is getting ridiculous!

Xbox Media Centre

Based on the date of some previous emails, it has been almost 2 years - and I'm still fighting with this thing!

I am now using Windows Media Player to capture my CDs at 128kbps, but they are very restrictive on the file naming, so I still need to use ReNamer to get the file name I want: <ISBN number>-<Track Number>.

I still need to do all the editing and renaming on my computer and then send the files to the Xbox - I have learned how to make the Xbox appear as a network drive in Explorer, however I am not able to select that location within Win Media Player as a location to target for music media...

Getting closer though!!

Got a couple of good resource websites:

• http://www.modchipman.ca/
• http://www.xbmc.org/forum/index.php
• http://www.xbox-scene.com/
• http://www.teamxodus.com/
• http://www.allxboxskins.com/skins/index.php