Heroes pull woman from Xbox blaze | The Register
An Anglesey woman was pulled unconscious from her house by two strangers after succumbing to smoke generated by a faulty Xbox.

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>“There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox’s on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham”
I used to run a Windows network and support a bunch of Windows users. [...]

Here are some MediaWiki plugins I ran across while surfing around. NOTE: Haven’t tried any of them. YMMV.
MediaWiki Tasks
>This extension provides the ability to create tasks on any page of your MediaWiki. Also included is a highly configurable Special page for aggregateing tasks on your site by various criteria. All tasks are [...]

At Particletree there is a good list of articles on PowerPoint Presentation Tips. The Gates, Jobs and the zen aesthetic article is very good and very interesting. I always enjoy watching Steve Jobs give a presentation. His presentations often go on for a couple of hours but they are very clean and [...]

I thought I would: (a) use the web, (b) get an early jump on this and (c) have a fun time putting together a post with pictures of things I want for Christmas.

Machinima is “filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.” The 2005 Machinima Film Festival just ended and the people at Rooster Teeth came away with three awards. Congrats Roosterteeth!
If you haven’t seen machinima, then you are missing out on a very entertaining suite of short films. These [...]

I just finished reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. This is a very funny, laughing out loud and waking up your wife, story based on a dark theme. Four people meet on top of the Toppers building on New Years Eve. Each has come up to commit suicide. [...]

I returned from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference two weeks ago. I came home to Ena home sick with a cold. I came down with the same virus on Sunday after my return. I have been sick ever since. I’m in week 2 of this thing. The last week was the [...]

Small Dog Electronics is an on-line retailer where I like to shop. They send small plastic dogs with your order. They have a picture of Lola on their site. Anyway. They had a Halloween costume contest. The winner for most original costume was Don. Check it out. [...]