Michael S. Clark

Gary has posted some screenshots in a Flickr set from our current project, a Windows replacement for our Bakery Control System. We’ve pretty much locked down the GUI and are now building the individual modules.

Re my “unreadable” PGR3 disc, I’ve tried the following things, according to guidelines online: Reboot and try again Power down, remove the HD and power up Clean what minisule scratches there were on the disc Connect to XBox Live and download any updates The only thing I haven’t tried is another game, so I give [...]

Returned home after work today to discover that my XBox had returned, allbeit being left with a neighbour. I opened the box, reattached the cabling and booted. The hard drive seemed to be okay and the system booted fine. I created my profile and reset the date and time. So I inserted the PGR3 disc [...]

From: [trimmed]@css.one.microsoft.com English We have received your Xbox at our service center. It is our priority to process your Xbox in a timely manner and to get it back to you as good as new. We will contact you as soon as we are finished so you can get ready to get back into the [...]

From: [trimmed]@css.one.microsoft.com English Thank you for contacting Xbox Customer Care. We have received your request for service. Please prepare your console and follow the instructions provided by our customer service department. You will receive an e-mail as soon as the next step in the process has begun. Note: This is not a monitored e-mail address. [...]

You can only be told so many times that “Your call is important to us”, “Your call is in a queue” and “Your current position in the queue is … 1″ before you begin to suspect that there is only one “Customer Service Representative” on duty and that poor sod used to work very recently [...]

So I stumped up the cash I was going to spend on a set of alloys for me car on an XBox 360. The reasons I didn’t get the alloys are many and varied, but it comes down to the fact that Halfords don’t keep their records of wheel pitch sizes up to date, and [...]

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.0 “Duke”, and I must say the upgrade was beautiful – 0 glitches, 0 downtime – excellent work guys!

And a belated Merry Christmas!