Tech Debug

I rang nintendo today and it was very painless to order my free wiimote strap replacements. They asked for the console serial number, the number of wiimotes, and told me to keep my old straps to send back. They will include a return envelope for me. Painless, quick, and finally we will soon be able to use our wiimote with straps again… It feels very unsafe swinging these things around without straps.

So it finally happened… The strap on my Wiimote broke whilst playing Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii. With luck, we have no broken television or anything else. Lets hope Nintendo will replace these.

I was looking at CelticBear’s blog, and saw a link to MSNBC, who has a piece by Keith Olbermann with comments about President Bush and his recent speech about Iraq. He likens Bush to the boy who cried wolf, noting that this time around, who will believe him that the same thing will work (sending another 20K troops to Iraq). I highly recommend watching the streaming video, as it conveys the commentators opinions much better than the written piece.

CBS have posted a video with a closeup look at the new Apple iPhone. Worth watching if you like tech gadgets. Its a pity that we have to wait till 2008 for it to get to Australia (Asia) but hopefully that wait is so we can get a 3G enabled phone.

Apple have released their Apple TV My question, is why does Australia get CONSISTENTLY marked up prices from Apple? The Apple TV is USD$299, and AUD$449. At the current exchange rate of 1 USD to 1.28683 AUD this item costs AUD$385 when purchased in the US. That is over $60 more expensive for the pleasure of purchasing from Australia! How do they justify this? The exchange rates do not fluctuate that much.

Just watched this awesome video on YouTube. It’s a stop motion of two guys sorting their problems out mano e mano. Me and my bro tried this once when I first got a webcam, nothing like this though! If I find mine, I will post them on YouTube as well

I have been messing around with feedburner. It seems to offer a really good service for free, with some premium options if you choose to enable them. I have cut my feed over to it, as I get stats of who/when is subscribed. They also allow for funky embeded items (like the Digg and Email this links you see on each post). Have you ever clicked on an XML/RSS feed in your browser and seen only xml code come up?