Making progress, I guess.
17 Feb 05

It's really hard to get anything done with a newborn around. Even simple tasks are constantly interrupted. Then you get a little smile and think it's all worth it until you are trying to figure out why you haven't gotten anything done. Oh well. I did get the winners prizes out in the mail today. That will probably only interest a handful of people, but it's something I got done and I'm proud of it.

I was a little surprised that there were no "passes" in the contest. I figured someone wouldn't want or would already own some of the titles. It was quite pleasant to find every winner was happy with winning and their prize. Perhaps they were just humoring me, but I'm not going to complain.

It was an interesting day on the Microsoft front. First we had the news of a massive power cable recall. That's probably the only time Microsoft was glad they didn't have as many consoles out there as Sony.

Then we hear rumors from Kotaku confirming the name of Xbox 360, promising a sleek silver finish with customizable face plates, wireless controllers (also confirmed Here), multiple flavors (hard drive and without), and perhaps most interesting is that Microsoft is working on backwards compatibility, but they don't have it working yet. Maybe it'll be in the first service pack.

Finally we hear news of impending price drops on the Xbox to $129 or even $99. Of course, that's not too interesting if Microsoft doesn't get some more Xbox consoles back in the pipeline. Note to Microsoft, if you don't get backwards compatibility working, you can't kill off the Xbox product line without hurting yourself.

Jason