The fear of every XBOX 360 owner....

Well here it is: the first picture made with my new camera..... Not a picture I liked to make though... For any Xbox 360 owners out there, the picture probably says it all. Me too can be added to the long list of Xbox 360 owners who experienced the 'red ring of lights' (meaning my Xbox has died). Hopefully I will be able to get a replacement very soon, do really like the machine, but the failure rates I keep reading about will make me hold back a bit on spending any more money on it...

For everyone still considering which next (current) gen console they should get, really keep in mind the 'red ring of lights' is a very serious issue, way too many consoles are affected by it sooner or later.
UPDATE: Just called the Xbox 360 support line, 2 weeks from now I will need to bring my Xbox to a service centre to get it replaced with a 'new' one. It sucks that that will be on a Monday, so probably will only be able to do the exchange the Saturday after that, meaning I will not be able to play any games for another 3 weeks...

New Digital Camera

Yesterday I bought a new digital camera: the Nikon Coolpix S500. Already have the Canon Digital EOS 350D, but got this one additional as it is a lot smaller. So very easy to just keep in your bag or pocket to carry around and take pictures (or movies) whenever there is something worth to shoot :). So hopefully will be updating with a lot of shots made by the S500 soon :).

BTW think the camera was quite a bargain, got 300HK$ of the display price; so paid only 1980HK$ and got some extra's for free, like an extra battery, 2GB SD card, carry case, screen protector. (also a mini tripod but the quality of that makes it something that it would be better not to mention it; although now it ends up having even more text spend on it ;) )