After convincing a couple of friends a while back, I finally got around to taking my own advice and buying a pre-modded XBOX to use as a media centre. I already have the D-Link DSM-320, which is really a painful device to teach non-techies to use — hell, it’s painful for me to use as well! Though I should, I probably won’t retire the DSM-320, because it works fine (i.e. it’s not broken, though it’s far from fun to use) and I don’t like not using stuff that still turns on without blowing out smoke.

I’ve got a six year old daughter that was really psyched about it yesterday, but she played three games (Spyro, Open Season and Ice Age II) and then decided that hitting a football with her cricket bat in our driveway was more interesting — oh well, so much for the kids following in their father’s footsteps.

I’m in the process of installing all the homebrew stuff on it, which’ll allow me to use XBMC to listen/watch all of the media that’s piling up one the my hard drives and DVDs. This part seems to be straight forward, but electronics and I always manage to complicate things so that the task crosses over to being complex. Fingers crossed!