I've been searching for a way to display my Xbox Live status as an RSS feed or similar for my Lifestream. Fortunately, I've been using Duncan Mackenzie's Twitter application. There's even an API and some other stuff. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with it. Yeah. Now, I created an alternative method to using the API, but it requires Twitter, the previously mentioned Xbox to Twitter application and Yahoo! Pipes. Also, sometimes it doesn't work. I'm going to show you how to set it up, though I would much prefer someone showed me how to set it up using the API. Firstly, you'll need a Twitter account. Twitter is an increasingly popular site which is used to tell people your real-life status. It's kind of hard to explain without making it sound weird, so just sign up and try it out. If you want you can add me as a friend. Now, there are two ways to do this. If you want a Twitter account to be devoted to this Xbox Live status only, it's a lot easier. If you want to do this with an existing Twitter account that you are using, as I did, you'll need to follow the full instructions. Now, you need to install Xbox to Twitter and you should probably set it to run at start up as you'll need this program running for anything to happen. Put in your Xbox Gamertag, Twitter username and Twitter password. Read the instructions on how you want your status to be formatted. I use the following. Xbox Live Status: <game>, <info>.

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I screw internet things up a lot. For example, less than a day after I get the gamercard script going, I've now done in my RSS feeds. Apparently it's something about there being a line break above the first line of the feed. From what I've gathered, the problem comes from PHP 5.2.2 or higher, so there was a manual fix for this in WordPress 2.1. Problem is, I'm running WordPress 2.2 which is supposed to have this fix built in, so I've been going nuts all day trying to figure out what is wrong. One of my favorite blog taglines was If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is. Clearly, I don't have the same level of patience as the person who came up with that. Bear with as I try deactivating all my plugins - for a second time - to see if that makes a difference. If ...

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I figured it was about time I finished off one blog and started the new one. I've had WordPress installed for, what, over a week now, so I guess it's about time I do something on it. I doubt I'll leave my theme as-is, it needs more...something. I don't know what that is yet. One thing I do know I would like to add is a gamercard to the bottom bar. Unfortunately, I can't seem to Ardamis' lovely script get to work properly, which is odd since it runs fine on my local copy of WordPress. I've tried both the WordPress plugin version and the script version, and neither can seem to clear the cache properly. Or something. I don't really know what's wrong. So, that isn't going to be up any time soon, but there are plenty of other cool things I've added to this version of ...

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