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!