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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'xbox'
➠ August 26, 2010
➠ July 28, 2010
Xbox Engineering Blog: Achievements Unlocked
Interesting piece on the creation of the Xbox 360 achievements system.
➠ October 24, 2009
Enter your Facebook password
Setting up the Facebook app on Xbox Live.
Rather than the gorgeous OAuth flow used by the Netflix app for the last year (The Xbox displays a six-digit number, you visit the Netflix website on your PC, log-in and enter that number, Tada, everything's linked), the Facebook, Twitter and last.fm apps all require you to fiddle around, entering email addresses and passwords on an on-screen keyboard.
Oh, and remember not to change your password on those services, because you'll need to go through the dance again.
(Particularly like this: "If you can't enter the characters you need here, change your passwords on www.facebook.com")
➠ October 26, 2008
A thoroughly productive weekend
My Xbox gamertagusernamethingummy is the unimaginative RodBegbie if you want to befriendify me. (At least until I overcome my aversion to paying Microsoft TEN! FUCKING! DOLLARS! to change it)
➠ August 18, 2008
Braid's ending explained
SPOILER, natch. Internet theorising about a non-obvious subtext to Braid’s story. If Portal was a video-game short-story, is Braid a video-game poem?
➠ August 9, 2008
Official Braid Walkthrough and Cheats
Braid, the stonking painty platformy puzzley game released on XBox live this week, has an official walkthrough. Make sure and read the second page of it. Inspired!
➠ February 6, 2008
➠ November 30, 2007
Dash Update deets revealed: DivX support, child account and Live ID problem fixed - Xbox 360 Fanboy
XBox 360 adds native DiVX playback. Between this, Rock Band and Space Giraffe, the XBox 360 is slowly tipping from “If someone gave me a free one, I’d sell it on eBay” (where the PS3 still lives) to “Hmmm… If I could pick up a cheap one….”
I’m not yet at a stage where I care enough to work out what the differences between all the different models are, though. Perfect example of the Paradox of Choice, there.
➠ June 17, 2006
➠ May 15, 2006
Life After the Video Game Crash
Fun rant predicting an impending crash. “We’ve now advanced from realistic 3D to slightly prettier 3D and… even slightlier prettier 3D with slightly better reflection effects and slightly better animated water ripples and - oh, look! This game has the most realistic fog yet!”
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.