After getting the shipping label, I shipped my Wii out on monday..and got a new one back today. They apparently just copied over my account and save files to a new Wii and sent that to me. I have to re-download the system updates and any VC games, but so far it seems good. The new Wii is noticably quieter than my old one: the old one had a weird somewhat loud "click" that would happen whenever it was reset to the Wii menu.
Yes, my Wii has a problem. It is the infamous flickering white and gray pixels problem. I talked to the support line, and they are going to repair it after I send it back to them.
Oh well. It's a bit disappointing that it has this problem so soon after it was released, but they were really good at the customer service, offering to send a brand new one right away if I didn't mind losing any virtual console games that I had downloaded. I have spent $20 on Wii points, so I decided to just have them repair my existing console and keep the few games I downloaded already.
When the problem first happened I was playing Link To the Past and there started being what looked like white and gray pixels stuck in the textures as they moved around. It later started happening in other Channels like the News and Weather, and finally I tried out a Wii game and saw the same thing, so I called Nintendo.
Jumping on the bandwagon here with my own Tumbleblog: Greg's Tumbleblog. When I think of a better name I will re-title it. Here is the RSS feed for it.
I like the idea of the Tumbleblog: "A website created in typical blog fashion, but with postings of a random and chaotic nature." Or, read Kottke for a longer take on it.
It makes sense as a way to share links, quotes, pics or other random things without the need to "compose" an entire blog post. I've added the feed for my tumbleblog to the sidebar, so you should be able to see the last 5 entries. I will hopefully update it much more frequently than this here blog itself.
Twitter: "What You And Your Friends Are Doing"
This seems like a cool website for sharing what you are doing with your friends and getting notified of what they are up to.
You can update your status online, over IM, or via a text message, and you can also receive updates about your friends through the same methods.
It's free, so go and sign up and add me as a friend.
