My XPS M1730 has been confirmed for delivery this Wednesday, 22/10/8. Delayed by a week, but better than the original delay estimate of 30/10/8. So that’s good. I didn’t like that Dell didn’t notify me of the delay, though: spent a good long while on the phone to them trying to explain that passive communication (status tracker) is not notification, to which their response was “we only notify you if your system is the one causing the delay”. So apparently for them to email me to say “sorry, little bit of a hitch, should be with you shortly” it needs to be the right kind of delay? Heh.
Bad news is my X360 has kicked the bucket; Red Ring of Death ftl. It’s out of warranty by something like two days, but I called up the nice folks at Xbox Customer Services (they really are nice people) and explained the situation. They’ll repair it for free, and extend the warranty to cover any further RRoD’s over the next three years.
Blog coding is coming along nicely, adding comments and post displaying have been working fine for a while now, and the display and SQL APIs only need a few tweaks before I can start using them intensively. Next step is to probably get some session management working so I can implement a few permission-related tidbits like private posts and whatnot. The wiki can be used to track any progress that I make in any coding endeavours, though it’s not a priority for updating.
Talking of wikis, the ServerGeeks wiki is a promising source of documentation, assuming more people chime in with their own contributions.


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