I got an email back from the guys at Sony. I need to phone up their helpline where they will guide me through “a detailed troubleshooting procedure to identify the nature of the fault”. I know what the nature of the fault is. The Blu-Ray drive doesn’t work. I thought I made that fairly clear in my initial, and I fail to see how they’ll be able to get any further with a “detailed troubleshooting procedure”. I mean, what are they going to get me to do?

“Put a disk in. Does it read it?”
“No.”
“Then your Blu-Ray drive isn’t working.”
“Yeah, thanks for that.”

I’m also seriously considering getting an Xbox 360. Shock horror, with me having pretty much grown up with, until recently, pretty much nothing but PlayStation. thing is, I don’t want to spent too much money. My parents have been nice and said they’d be willing to put some money towards it. But after buying the console, a few games, an extra controller, an Xbox Live subscription and a massive Ethernet cable (Hell if I’m paying like £40 for a shitty wireless adaptor), that’s a lot of dough. I also REALLY want an Elite one as well. Because it’s black. And the black ones like awesome, whereas the rest, with their pale silvery-grey just look a little… meh.

But I’m torn. I can get an Elite, with Fable II and Fallout 3 for £250 from Play. Or a 60GB one with Gears of War 1, 2 and Fallout 3 for £200. Argh, it’s like Sophie’s Choice.

Anybody got any suggestion, or know any good deals? UK ones only, mind.

I also had a mock Software Development assessment on College yesterday. I got 16 out of 22, which isn’t bad considering a good few of the questions where things that our lecturer had only really mentioned in passing a few weeks before. I could do with brushing on on system and unit testing as well.

Oh, and I’ve also messed around with the style a little bit.

Cheery-bye.

So, guess what? My PS3 broke. Guess what else? The warranty ended less than a week ago. And unfortunately, it’s not a simple thing that I could just fix on my own. It’s pretty serious - the Blu-Ray laser’s broken. Which means I can’t play PS3 games on it.

Well, isn’t that great.

So I’ve fired an email off to Sony, asking them their advice on what to do. It’s inevitably going to have to be sent off to get fixed or replaced, but I can’t imagine either of those options being too cheap since I no longer have the safety net that is the warranty.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a truer example of Sod’s (Murphy’s) Law in my life.

Anyway, eye screening went fine yesterday. Was in and out in a couple of minutes. The photos get sent down to Aberdeen, so I have to wait an agonising month to find out whether or not my eyes have become damaged by the diabetes. Hopefully they won’t, since they’ve been fine the past three years.

Hopefully.

Anyway, I better scoot; I’ve got to leave for college in a few minutes. I have a mock Software Development assessment.

Well, I think it was unanimously believed that the smaller sidebar I showed you was much better than the big one I have now. So I’ve now changed over to that. I’ve also added the two new themes - Licorice and Strawnana - for you to use as well. Feedback on the site is also appreciated, as always. What’s good, what’s not so good, what could be improved, what could be added, etc.

I have an eye screening tomorrow. Because of my diabetes, I have to have this procedure done once a year. Apparently, diabetes can cause damage to your eyes in the long run, so these screenings are done obviously to try and catch it early if it does happen.

I have to go to the hospital, and do a standard eye test - read letters from a chart whilst covering one of my eyes, then repeat for the other eye. Then, they need to take photographs of my eyes. So I basically have to sit in front of a MASSIVE camera, my eyeballs no more than a few centimeters from the lens, then they take a couple of photos.

Flash and all.

That’s not nice. Although I’ve gotten a little used to it the past four years, it’s still not a particularly pleasant experience. I was temporarily blinded the first time it happened, and even now, it still leaves me a little dazed and sensitive to light. Stepping outside after I’ve had it done is not nice.

Anyway, that’s all tomorrow, at about 11am. Which means I have to actually get up! And on my first day off of the week as well! Hmph.