Further to my post How NOT to upgrade your Xbox, I’m pleased to say I’ve got it working again. It’s taken a long time, a great deal of trial-and-error, and some head-scratching. To save at least one other person some hassle, here’s my ‘journey’ from a useless Xbox to one that runs Xbox Media Center, etc.
Continue reading “HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM”
Disappointingly, my Ed.D. thesis proposal‘s provisional mark of 48 was confirmed at the exam board this week. This means I have failed the very last module I will probably ever take. To say I am disappointed is a bit of an understatement, having never failed anything academically.
I’m actually somewhat frustrated with my supervisor, who said I would be fine, simply referring me back to my notes. He was also never available to meet with me when I asked for clarification and ideas.
Not that I’m blaming him. It’s my work, and now I’ve got until April 2008 to re-submit…
The educational possibilities of ‘mashing-up’ videos are not mainstream enough, I think. To edit a video for a specific purpose is quite a high-order skill. It pleases me, therefore, to see that YouTube have announced the launch of their Remixer. I also found out about their TestTube area (a bit like Google Labs) via Mashable…
