Anyone watch the NFL match in London between the New Orlean Saints and the San Diego Chargers? What a great game, fans were great and the pitch held up quite well.

Its a shame the whole day was ruined from the get go by some fucking moron with a high ranking position decidingly allowing the Stereo “shit mimeing” phonics the stage to sing…I mean mime…recorded versions of thier songs. I mean they are that shit, the lead singer missed his cue to “pretend” to sing half way through. What a complete cock muncher.

And what the fuck was Joss Stone doing to our National Anthem? shes more american than british for crying out loud…not to mention she’s shit. The only good thing to come about the pre game build up was Ne-yo putting some much welcomed effort into the Yank national singsong.

Anyhoot the Shittyphonics have been removed from my “band’s I would piss on if they were on fire” list to mingle with the like’s of Joss Stone, Take That, Robbie “The Cock” Williams, Cliff Richard..oh and any fucking band that sings shit emo music…You know whom i’m talking about

/points towards Fall Out Boy

Its tied 14 a piece leading into the fourth quarter. The Denver Broncos look like they have got there defense together and are making plays that matter….but my trusty Cowboys are standing firm with Romo looking for the air with sixteen passes for 210 yards…we can win this….

…and then it happened;

Madden 08 just froze on me, no sound, no response…dammit. You know whats coming next, turned it back on and then BAM! The three red rings of death.

After I stopped blubbering, I pulled myself back together and headed onto the interwebnet to find someone to take my hand, hold me and tell me everythings gonna be alright…no such luck but what I did find was very interesting.

Many people state that wrapping a towel around the Xbox and turning it on makes it work after a few minutes…i’ll explain why later, Many others say its just a case of hanging the power supply brick in the air so that heat is expelled evenly from it. Wow…the interwebnet.com is complety full of insane wacko’s….but I already new that and just confirmed it even more.

When all hope had failed I found someone who actually explained what was happening to the xbox to make it become like this and what had to be done to fix it. The main thing was to send it to Microsoft under warrenty and they would fix it or send you another one within 3 to 4 weeks but if your xbox was, shall we say, littered with battle scars (mumble….from being thrown out of the front door in a blind rage) then unfortunatly the warrenty might well have been voided…boohoo for me.

The problem is two fold:
1) There are some bad solders on the motherboard connecting the graphics chip.
2) The heatsinks are not screwed down to the motherboard, they are locked down by something called an “X-Clamp” but this does not hold the sinks in place firm enough and allows for small movements.

Whats happening is when the xbox heats up, the solders become soft. Also happening is the motherboard begins to warp slowly upwards into a concave shape and this makes the solders stretch to the point very small hairline cracks appear thus disconnecting the GPU from the motherboard.

Remember what I said about wrapping a towel around the xbox? well this heats up the xbox to the point where the solders which had cracked become soft again and merge back into a solid connection…but this is temporary and eventually the xbox will heat up again and the process starts again.

What needs to be done is to remove the “X-Clamps” from the motherboard and replace with screws & Washers. This will allows the heatsinks more tighter contact with the processors and stop any warping of the motherboard around the chips too. The other thing is to clean the procs and re apply some good thermal paste.

You must remember that when screwing down the heatsinks to make each corner leave the same gap to the motherboard else you will have an uneven surface on the processer and negate the cooling process. Also dont screw the heatsinks down too much, leave a gap of about two millimetres, anything less will bend the motherboard and will damage it.

Its been several days now since I did the job, i’ve put the xbox to the test several times and touch wood, nothing has gone wrong yet.

Things you’ll need:
- Torx T8 + T10 screwdrivers.
- 8x M5 Machine screws @ 10mm length.
- 16x M5 Nylon washers.
- 16x M5 steel washers.
- Cleaning fluid to remove old thermal paste.
- Thermal Paste (good stuff please)

Woohoo, what a scorcher of a week we have just had in Ibiza!

Absolutly gorgeous everyday, Hotel was lovely and the pool was great…i even put my hand to hiring a car which was scary

Check out the photos here

Found a great movie on youtube about Star Wars Galaxies and how it evolved into what it is today…DAMN YOU NGE!

Part One: Here
Part Two: Here

God that game was so good

Thats right people, this is a proven procedure that works and WILL NOT reset your IMEI to Zero’s.

Thanks to Loca|host @ GSM Hosting
Original Thread Here

1) Turn on the phone without sim card .
2) Pull off the battery cover and insert any non-accepted sim card (without turning off the handset)
3) Do full reset *2767*3855# , phone will reboot and goes to Menu .
4) Customize Sp-lock code *7465625*638*00000000*00000000#
5) Unlock your phone with new SP code #7465625*638*00000000#
6) Enjoy G600 unlocked

I Repeat this will not reset your IMEI to Zero’s, the code in step 3 is different to the widely used code that many people are using unwittingly bricking thier samsungs.

There it is! I have an email waiting to be opened from Play.com with my early access to warhammer online.

Just one problem…. I stil haven’t downloaded the damn client yet! its taking bloomin’ ages, this head start will be wasted if it doesnt hurry up…my own fault I know.

At least i’ve sorted out what class i’m going to be playing. Shadow Warrior FTW!…I’m a little worried about all the queues though, some people are saying a couple of hours wait to join some servers. I know game developers like to lower the population limits on release and then gradually raise it when they’re sure the server is stable so i’m expecting a little wait time for a short while.

Anyway, i’m going to be creating and uploading some movies of my characters experiences in the world so keep checking up.

There’s this really great song getting some airtime on the radio at the moment from a band called Flobots. Handlebars is a short but awesome song which carry’s a really good message and to be honest is very cleverly done, the video is pretty cool too.

Its definetly one of my favorite tracks of 2008.

I login to Parceline website from work, it’s been delivered this morning.

YES! I say to myself….we’ll thats a lie, I muttered a faint cheer to which everyone in the office looked at me confused as to why I was finding work anything other than mind numbingly boring…

…they didn’t have a shiny new Blackberry waiting for them at home.

After the remnents of the delivery packaging had fell to the floor I held the phone’s box in my hands followed by one of those godly church choir phrases in the background…thank god noone was around to see me in awe.

After I finished drooling over my hand which was hoveering over the phone for protection I continued on to the Orange website to activate the sim card number.  So I type it in and click next, after a few seconds i’m greeted to a “Sim Card invalid, please try again” message.  I shrug it off as a e-fart and call the number on screen to speak to Orange Customer Services.

The polite lady answers and I tell her i’m having trouble activating my shiny new Blackberry online so we got it all done over the phone.  “Ok Mr Parton, it will take between 2 - 4 hours for the sim card to be activated, please leave your phone off for two hours.  You’ll receive around four text messages from orange, when you turn your phone on, Just open each message and then delete them.”

Seems simple enough, phone needs charging anyhoot so lets zoom three hours ahead into the future.

<cue wild trippy light flashing scene>

I turn the phone on… ‘SIM CARD ERROR’.  wtf does that mean? manual has nothing about that so I turn off the phone and restart it up… ‘SIM CARD ERROR’.

Now i’m getting worried, maybe I jumped the gun a little, i’ll leave it another couple of hours.

<cue another wild trippy flashing lights scene>

‘SIM CARD ERROR’

Thats it, im offically pissed orf.  “Hello, welcome to orange customer services, can I have the orange mobile number….”

“no, I don’t know the number yet” I mumbled. I proceeded to describe how my shiny new phone was giving me the middle finger.

“What we can try is turning off the phone, removing the battery and the sim card, putting the battery back in without the sim card, letting the phone boot back up and then running a master reset on the phone”.

Sounds interesting I thought so I did that…

after putting the sim back in and booting up.. ‘INITALISATION FAILED’ instead of the sim card error message… I’m literaly crying now.

“Looks like your sim card is faulty, you have to pop into an orange shop and they’ll replace it with a new one and register the new number there”.

I blubbered out a reluctant thanks…what am I thanking them for? they sent me a shitty crap nonworking sim card, they should be arrested for mental torture.

<cue next day>

I’m talking to the orange sales dude and he straight way tell me “sorry, we dont change sim card’s.  Orange CS shouldn’t have told you that.  A new card needs to be sent out to you in the post”.

You know those small blackouts you have where you imagine the person your talking too has just been psycotically murdered by you, you feel your teeth grind together tight and all the blood in your body rushes to your face…??? ok, I have said too much there.

Which brings me to where I am now, sat at my desk at work, writing this blog on my laptop instead of my shiny new curve…This is just typical of my luck, just typical.

Where’s a puppy dog when you need one?

I finally decided to contact 3 about the appalling reception I get at work thinking maybe I can something in return, maybe cash back or even the contract being cancelled and suprisingly enough I get through to a CS rep almost instantly…Raj is his name.

I begin to tell Raj that the 3G reception is really bad where I work and that I always get one bar maximum at any given time during the day so he goes off and does something along the lines of checking the network signal and true enough he responds with “3G signal in that area is fine”.  Now the Coverage checker on thier website shows the area in question has a decent 3G coverage so I guess he just used that to check.

I declare again that the reception is poor still and that other 3G phones I have had show the same signal strength and Raj tell me to manually change my mobile network to orange because they provide backup coverage when signals are bad.

I replied “won’t this give me 2G coverage as opposed to 3G?”

Raj carries on to say that no, it will give you 2.5G coverage and that you will have to manually switch between both the 2.5G and 3G networks when I need to…

heres the best bit, apparently my phone, the Nokia 6500 Slide has an underlying technical problem connecting to 3G networks and is know around the world! 

Can you believe a 3G network is selling the 6500s phone with thier packages and they know about this fault?

Do you think I would have chose that phone knowing this?  they should be sued by everyone whom bought this phone on PAYG or on contract.

So there we have it, at no fault of my own I now have to inconvience myself even more by having to change networks when I arrive at work and leave at the end of the day…

The bastards.

Hello and welcome to my site. I’m sat on my bed at the moment watching the germans dick the portugese which is great since I hate the buggers and the ronaldo arse kissing entourage which follow.

My daughter has rushed in a quick session on team fortress 2 And cant believe the pyro spam which has appeared since todays update went live…i’ve yet to play it but damn i’m going to make sure they dont get anywhere near me.

Well halftime has finished so back to it i go