Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles makes no secret of the fact that he loves his Xbox and is a big fan of Xbox Live, and during the week he was one of the lucky few to get a pre-release version of the machine, no doubt in the hope that he’ll evangelise it during one of the biggest radio shows in the country. It was quite a funny segment of the show so I grabbed the MP3 of it out of their podcast so that you can download it here – it’s over five minutes long but it’s pretty funny, so give it a listen.

Since I’ve been ripping chunks of audio out of it I should probably point out that you can subscribe to the Best of Moyles podcast here.

This is too funny. As someone who can’t claim to be Sony’s biggest fan I’m sitting back and enjoying them taking flak over news like their whole CD rootkit fiasco and the price fixing allegations, not to mention rumours like the one that the PS3 DRM (admittedly now denied by Sony) wouldn’t allow you to borrow or buy used games, and now you can add another controversy to the list. It’s not as moustache-twiddlingly nefarious as some of the others, but it’s really funny that it happened to them.

According to The Register, anyone who visited the Sony Style website and innocently searching for “USB” would find something more than just the expected USB cables and hubs. They’d also be offered a naked person, legs akimbo, offering the great deal of showing you their something in exchange for a look at your USB and only $9.99. Pretty good deal, I’d say.

I’ll never again hear anything bad said about Google’s attempts to assimilate all of the world’s information into their gaping maw. It might play havoc with anyone who wants to remove information from the Internet permanently, but in this case it’s become a total saviour. When I was lamenting my lost posts it occured to me that they might be cached in Google, and sure enough, there they were, as was the lost version of my Warcraft Diary. Both have now been restored to their former glory and I can make a completely up-to-date backup of the whole thing. This doesn’t make me any less annoyed with my host, but at least I haven’t lost anything.

As you may have noticed, the site was down for a time yesterday and came up briefly with the Halloween in Azeroth post as the latest update. It seems that the server that my site is hosted on needed repairs for some reason, and part of the repair process involved restoring a database backup that was almost a month old. Thankfully I had one that’s only about six days old so losses are minimal, but I’d be mightily pissed off if I didn’t know what I was doing and didn’t have any backups. Thank God for the WordPress database backup plugin is all I’ll say. Get it if you run WP and don’t backup regularly.

I think all that’s missing is one update to my World of Warcraft Diary (not sure if I ever announced that on the main blog, but it’s designed to keep my WOW chatter off the main page…oops), and the only main post that I can remember missing is the one about Xbox 360’s backwards compatibility (impressed that they’re supporting 212 games at launch as I was expecting more like 20; impressed that they’ll all run in HD; baffled why some of the games, especially Sega ones, aren’t there). There might have been more but they’ll have to remain lost to the abyss.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to backup my database again.

To give Microsoft their due credit, when they said that the 360 would be able to play ?top-selling Xbox games? I took that to mean a few of the big ones, maybe 20 or so, and certainly nowhere near this many. Considering that they have to be emulated and aren?t simply being run on a hardware chip like the PS3 will probably do and the PS2 does, over 200 games is an impressive selection. Now I know that the list will be added to over time (once again to their credit, the new emulation profiles will be free downloads) but I can?t be the only one who thinks they?re missing some of the best games on the system while having dross like Barbie Horse Adventure and Kabuki Warriors on it.

They may not have set the sales charts alight but Sega?s Jet Set Radio Future and Shenmue II should be given life on the next generation – it?s not like they sold any less than some of the crap there. No sign of any of the Splinter Cells? Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy is only a couple of months old but it?s not playable. MechAssault was the early XBL killer app, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein kept me on Live for hundreds of hours – both AWOL. The Burnout and Project Gotham Racing games aren?t there either, presumably to encourage people to pick up the new 360 titles that should be there around launch. Those are just out of my collection so I?m sure there are others that other people are missing.

Still, it?s a far better list than I expected. Here?s hoping that they add some more of the AAA games.