XBox Live v2
I switched on the XBox yesterday for the first time in a few months and was greeted with the new XBox Live version 2 upgrade. Sweet. Then I was presented with my list of online friends. Zero. I have no online XBox Friends. Thought I did, but no. :)
If you're on XBox Live, and you're reading this blog, we have at least that in common. Clearly you are my friend, or a spy. My XBox Live GamerTag is “Glucose”. If you see me online, please do threaten to crush me in any XBox game.
P.S. As an aside, I was throughly disappointed in the XBox Music Mixer. It promised to let me listen to my MP3s via a connection to my main server, as well as watch slide shows. Well, it DOES do that, but it requires me to run a Wizard on my main server, I add my pictures, then it counts done from 5:00 minutes. At this point, I'm expected to RUN down to my XBox and run the associated XBox Music Mixer wizard and TRANSFER (that's right, COPY) my pictures/music to the XBox's paltry 8 gig drive. Not exactly something you want to do when your guests are over and dying to see your pictures of Malaysia or Zimbabwe.
I can only assume the did it this way to keep XBox hackers from taking any real-time transfer capabilities and defeating them, thus introducing “XBox Napster.“ (which is basically what I wanted, XBox Napster within my own subnet.)
Regardless, this is Glucose signing off. See you online!
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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I haven't played with X-Box Live since it was introduced around a year ago. It was fun for a while, getting to go online and get badmouthed by 14 year-olds with squeaky voices (except when they were using the voice modulator thing), but maybe it's time to give it another chance...
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BTW - It was nice meeting you at PDC (I introduced myself at the Ask the Experts shindig). Thanks again for your presentation tips. I've got a link to them and a bunch of others at http://weblogs.asp.net/gad/posts/32303.aspx.