I like finding new tech blogs. Just found a fun one done by Tunji Afonja. He runs his own software development company in Kansas City. Love the name: The Blog of an African Nerd.

How did I find him? A Technorati search for Xbox and Media Center. He wrote a “bold prediction” that the race for the living room is over. Hmmm, I think it’s just starting!

But, if he’s talking about my living room, he’s right. I got my Xbox 360 and I’m installing it.

The Xbox is a sordid tale. Maryam made me take back the one I bought the other night. She did a great whine and freak out show for me. Said we didn’t have the money. Which is sorta true, but what the heck, I needed it for research. 🙂

Turns out that whole song and dance was a game of its own. See, she was in cahoots with Chris Pirillo and Ponzi. They had already gotten me an Xbox 360 as a gift for being their best man at their wedding (date to come, but sometime in November/December). That’ll be quite an event, almost as good as Gnomedex!

Why don’t they just get married at Gnomedex? That’d save them some money and trouble. And it’d guarantee that it’d get recorded and Flickred.

Anyway, thanks Chris, now I gotta go to the store and get some stuff to finish off the installation.

Oh, and I can smell a blog vacation coming on. Mmmmm, it smells like Oblivion! (All my friends who’ve tried that game are RAVING about it. They say that it, alone, is worth spending the $400 on an Xbox to get it.

We’ll see.