Not much to report this week, work is pretty full on as usual but I would probabley just complain I was bored otherwise.

During the week my modchip arrived, I bought a torx screwdriver, soldering iron and roll of solder…all ready to do the modding on Sunday. Taking all my previous experience into consideration this should have been a breeze however as usual with my Xbox projects things didn’t start so well. First of all my TV doesn’t have a remote, I have a set top box which auto-swtiches so I just assumed the Xbox would do the same, but as Leyton would say “Assumtion, it makes an ass out of you and me”.

So I had to go out and find a universal remote, having done that and confirmed the thing actually worked, I began the mod.
Once I opened the case I realised I was working with revision v1.0, the very first release. At first this was good news however as 4 attempts and quiet a few hours later it turned out to be difficult, the LPC port didn’t have holes like versions 1.1-1.6b so I had to opt for the wire install rather then the easier pin header install. At the end of the day I was still without a working mod, so tomorrow I am going to buy myself a solder-sucker and make my second attempt.

I’ll keep you updated on the project.

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Had an enjoyable weekend just past, Friday night I stayed home and watched new Lost, 30 Rock and The Office (US). Saturday I had to go to the post office and stand in a queue for almost an hour, which sucked but from now on I will get everything sent to work. Later on I attempted to go to the Natural History museum but the Darwin expo wasn’t on for 3hrs and there were screaming kids everywhere, nothing against them but it makes it hard to read. So I changed gear and headed towards Camden but not before coming across the Lamborghini showroom…OMG!

Back in Camden I felt more at home, so I bought a new hat and meet up with some friends for a few drinks at ‘The World’s End’ pub.

Sunday was a pretty lazy day, I slept in then wandered up the street looking for a second hand Xbox game as I bought an original Xbox during the week (for £19). Alas it was not to be and I’ll have to wait until the modchip arrives =)

Also really sad new about the fires in Australia, hope it rains hard for them today.

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Well as you all would have heard about by now, London was hit by a massive snowfall yesterday (the biggest in 6yrs actually). It all started on Sunday about 12pm whilst I was already out without a jacket on and froze my ass off. It came down all night and when I got up Monday morning it was like a foot deep and although I didn’t feel that well (always take a jacket out in London) I couldn’t get to work because all public transport was closed.

So rather than hiding inside I rugged up and headed down to my local park to put my new camera to use. The park was amazing, it was like a ski field, and people were treating it like one…fantastic!

Today I am working from home because there are still massive delays on my train line but things should be back to normal tomorrow.

Below are some of the photos from the day.

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To celebrate Australia Day over here in gloomy London I wore my yellow Oz soccer jersey, I was also going to wear my green Billabong board shorts and my Aussie flag one plugers but it was way too cold.

After work I headed into the city with some other Aussies for drinks at a Walkabout pub. The place was absolutly packed to the brim with trashed Aussies (and Poms) drinking beers and eating pies! I met up with Emily and her sister as well as Cherie from Australia, didn’t get too pissed as I had work the next day but it was awesome.

Check out more pics here

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

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I havn’t been up to much lately as I am completely broke from all my holidays so here are some photos from a night out in Woking where I work for my 25th birthday.

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