This is extremely cool. I'm using the wordpress app on my iPhone to post this. This is going to come in handy while I'm in Europe!

My brother-in-law recently gave me his broken Xbox 360. Unlike most other broken 360's out there, there were no 3 red-rings-of-death (RROD) indicating some major problem. Instead, when you turn it on, it seemed to start up just fine. Well, you could hear the audio of the startup, but there was no picture.

So I took the think apart, to see if I could find any obvious loose connections or solders. Nothing. So, I did some digging online. I found out that you can fix it much the same way as you would the common RROD issue, by removing the x-clamp from the GPU, and using screws to reseat the heat sync.

I pieced together the fix from the following pages:

• A guy with the same problem
• A step-by-step tutorial on removing the x-clamp
• A number of videos on Youtube showing how to disassemble the Xbox.

I did however make a mess of some of the plastic casing of the system, but who cares, it's working! I also managed to actually get the RROD when I put all the casing back on, so now I just leave the top off. Go figure.

So, I'm trying out a little project here. In the past, I've listed and provided dropped domains with PageRank. Really though, they didn't prove to be of much value. Once the next PR update hit, they usually dropped the little bit that they had, and became useless.

This time I'm testing something new out. I've found an old site, which is over 10 years old, but I guess just didn't generate enough revenue to stay alive. The links to the site are still alive, as is much of the content. So I've purchased the domain, and resurrected much of the site. It will be interesting to see how search engines treat the old site.

Here it is, it's a college directory. If you're a student and you have a blog, please link to the site as well from your own blog, as this will help out this little test. Thanks!

ps - yes, I realize that it's ugly right now, but we'll fix that eventually.

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So I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I'm now running that cocktail recipe site. Well, in order to get more traffic, I'm running a contest. If you have a blog or site and are willing to link to the site, or submit a recipe of your own, you can win an iPod Touch! Enter now!