Monthly Archives: November 2009
Xbox 360 is now alive!
Some time ago (around a year ago I think if not longer) I was playing on my Xbox 360 on Gears of War 2 when bang! I had the dreaded RROD (Red ring of death) which is basically three red lights and then you cannot use your xbox again until you get it repaired.
I didnt bother to get it fixed, well I did that is a lie, I did the towel trick which is basically wrapping the xbox up in a towel and leave it powered on for around 20 minutes to over heat. Remove the towel and try booting and it worked for me, well I say it worked, it worked for around 10 minutes before I got the three red lights again.
I just gave in and threw it under the stairs and didn’t think anything else of it.
Monday I decided I was going to fix it, so I took it to bits cleaned the thermal paste from the processor and heat sinks, applied new paste, removed the xclamps and put in screws, built back up and YES! It works, we are not back up and running. Just a shame I have been banned from xbox live.
I am getting a new xbox 360 on friday from my brother and will be playing on live with that one.
Miss Upload Review
Today I was looking for ways to make money on the internet, I found the usual sites that you come across but then I came across Free File Hosting . I had to work this out in my head for a second, they will pay me to upload my files to their site? Yup it is true!
There are 2 ways to earn Points:
1. By sharing files and earning points for downloads
* $10 per 1000 Unique Downloads
2. Referral Premium Account
* You will get $0.1 or 10 Points from those who register from your affiliate link.
* You will get 25% of Premium Account Sales and 100 points free.
This is something that I am going to try, the upload speed is really good also, the screenshot below shows the speed I was uploading a file and also the time remaining.
When the upload has finished you will be presented with different links that you can use on various file sharing sites such as forums, direct links to files and also links to manage the file you have uploaded.
The registration process is really simple, the usual kind of case when registering for any site/service on the internet, you are required to choose a username, password, coupon code if you have one, payment info address for paypal which is optional. Upon register your account you will need to activate it with the link they send you in the email then your good to go to start earning money.
Check out the twitterpage for @missupload promo codes are posted as well as news, updates and new features regarding the web site.
Currently their is a promo code that allows you to have 3 days free premium account.
I for one will be using this site for hosting all my files on that I wish to share in the future and hopefully you will check it out too.
MissUpload is also on Social networking sites twitter and facebook, to check them out follow these links.
Twitter @missupload
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/missupload
The above file was just a test to check out the upload speeds and also see how fast it downloads.
I am still awaiting my account activation email which I have requested twice already but still not email has come through, I have checked SPAM / INBOX but still nothing.
I sit in hope that it will be here soon.
Thanks for reading
EDIT: What I forgot to mention about @missupload is I like how they arn’t spamming people on twitter and just following hundreds and thousands of people to get as many followers as possible. Current they are following 30 users and have a following of just 24. This in my eyes is good to see as spammers = bad
My Friday 13th
Well today was Friday the 13th, a day that some people believe if they go out of the house, something terrible will happen to them, anything ranging from accidents to death.
Some people even book the day off work and refuse to leave the house, well I thought I would tell you about mine: Nothing much exciting happens but still thought I would still write about it.
Travelling down Birmingham Thursday night as my car was going in for a timing belt change and also some new spark plugs fitting, the reason it was going down there all the way from Yorkshire was my father in laws mate was going to do it at a much better price for me, although it still cost me £360
I was expecting something bad to happen maybe it wouldn’t fit right, maybe it would be a complete disaster and blow my engine up even though it had already been done, maybe I would be paying for something that didn’t even need doing.
To cut a long story short I am not a superstitious person, nor do I believe it life after death, nor to I believe in Aliens or Ghosts. The job went well and my car was fixed, I travelled back up to Yorkshire and managing to battle through all the bad weather I made it alive and so did my car.
One last sentence….
What a load of mumbo jumbo, Friday 13th is!
The Worse Weather I have Ever Drove In
I just got back from Birmingham at around 9oclock, a journey which usually takes me around 1hr 45mins on a good day and that is battling my way through all the 50MPH zones on the M1.
The journey took me just over 3 hours!! The weather was horrendous, continuous rain, heavy rain, slow rain, fine rain, rain that you can’t see 1 meter in front of you TERRIBLE!
The motorways were completely drenched and covered in water, cars and wagons throwing water up into the air so it hits your windscreens, water been thrown from the other side of the motorway from the oncoming traffic.
I think I got above 50MPH for around 20 miles but then soon came back down because of the weather. At one point I was actually thinking it was getting too bad maybe I should pull over wait for it to stop, but it’s a good job I didn’t I would still be sat there now waiting for it to stop. Luckily I missed the high winds that started just after I got off the M1.
You got the same old knob head that you would on a dry day whizzing past you at around 90/100 MPH and I couldn’t help myself thinking that if you were to slide and crash and lost control you would be getting exactly what you deserve, especially in that weather where you couldn’t even see the car in front, nor could you even see through your windscreen because there was that much water about.
I had one prick shooting up my chuff then started flashing me when I wouldn’t move, this is the point I was up to 70MPH and I simply refused to move as I didn’t want to be stuck behind a lorry nor did I want him to get past, I was ranting a raving and in the end I simply moved over after around 1.5 miles where he pulled behind me and got off the motorway! Success! Least I managed to slow one person down and probably fuck him off in the process!
Travelling back down tomorrow, I hope it’s much better weather tomorrow and also hope it doesn’t take me as long either.
Social Networking Meltdown!
I’m feeling in a little bit of a meltdown today when it comes to social networking and i’m not sure what to do.
Do I like social networking?
Yes
Do I like making new friends online?
Yes
Do I like facebook?
It’s alright
Do I like twitter?
Yes
Do I like MySpace?
No
Do I spend many hours on social networking sites?
Yes
Could my time be used better elsewhere?
Yes, definitely
Have I ever deleted an account and signed back up?
Yes facebook, reinstated it though
Now the QA session is out the way i’ll explain why I am feeling like this, I was walking the dogs in the rain on Wednesday last week, the rain bouncing off the hood of my coat and the dogs loving every minute of it. I started to think to myself this is the life and one that I like better than living in “a bubble” and not doing anything.
I work on computers all day and find myself as soon as I get home getting out my Macbook and sitting on it all night finding little bits of pieces to do, talking on social networking sites and basically just wasting time in things that are never really going to get me anywhere.
I am going to change my life around with my new years resolution, but the only difference is I wont be changing it around on the 1st Jan 2010. I will be changing it from now.
List of things I need to do:
❑ Fix my bike
❑ Get fit
❑ Train for the three peaks challenge
❑ Sell my iPhone
❑ Deactivate my facebook account
❑ Delete my twitter account
❑ Delete all of the blogs / website that I was trying to make work and scrap them all
Those are just a few of the things I need to get done. Not in that order but I need to do them.
I already have one ticked off the list I did this earlier this afternoon.
I deactivated my facebook account, I just need to stay strong and make sure it stays that way.
I also looked into deactivating my twitter account, this cannot be done, only deleted and gone forever, this would be a big step losing everything, all the tweets, all the replies, all the messages, all the followers and all the people I follow.
I managed to get this far, but will I ever have the man hood to click “Okay, fine, delete my account” button
I need a total lifestyle change and while all these things are currently in my life I know it wont happen, I’m weak, I can’t just tweet a little, I have to tweet a lot.
So like twitter says:
Is this goodbye from rhodzy?
Only Google Could Get Away With This
Only Google could get away with changing their logo as much as they do, Google has to be the only place where you can go, get a funny image and you know exactly where you are all the time.
I have to give it to Googles logo designers they come up with some beauties and never fail to amaze me.
I particularrly like todays logo celebrating Sesame Streets 40th birthday.
Here is a collection of some of the Google logos.
You can check out all of the Google logos past and present at the following link:
http://www.google.com/logos/index.html
Check them out, there really are come good ones.