One of my friends has just got himself an XBox, and needs to have it modded to load some new software on it. Thanks for microsoft, any code to be installed on the machine must be signed for it to run. Since code you add yourself is not signed, the XBox needs to have some modifications to run this code. The courts have agreed with the ACCC that mod chips are not in themselves illegal since they have substantial non-infringing uses. So you can buy a mod-chip from here.

Earlier I had the TV on, and there just happened to be a show on about US history, and they mentioned the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’. I had no idea what they were, but did know the name. Turned out that they were a group of black soldiers over 100 years back fighting the indians. I had heard about them from the Bob Marley song.

News.Com.AU has a story about a helicopter rescue in Antarctica. The mission was needed because the plane the helicopter was meeting had faulty landing gear that needed to be fixed.