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My wonderful week started with my X-box 306 flashing three red lights. In consideration that this was a launch console, I had hoped that it would be repaired this time at no cost. Go figure, I was wrong and it's going to cost me $140 + S&H.  When I look at the expenses that I have for the rest of this month, I'm not sure that I can swing paying for it.  However, if I don't then I have $400 in games that are completely worthless.

Much to my annoyance, Wal-Mart has let me down on shipping "The Compass of Celestial Directions, Vol. 2:  the Wyld".  It is still listed as out of stock and they continue to have no idea when (read: if) it will ship.  Supposedly, they are going to call me today to discuss the situation but considering last time, I don't expect to be contacted.  Then again it may be karma biting me in the rear about the last book.

I'm also having a three-way and two part problem with my MacBook, Camino, and Microsoft which has no current solution.  The gist of the bug is that Camino grabs a language list from OS X (e.g. en, de, es...) when it starts.  This list is passed to websites in order to automate language selection.  The problem is that my language is technically coded as "en-us" (not "en") and so Microsoft's website doesn't recognize it.  It travels along the list of languages and selects the first one that it does recognize, in this case "de".  This part can be fixed by specifying "en-us" in the "about:config" page but it has to be done each time you load Camino.

The second part of that problem is that, even though Camino is Gecko based, it won't display the elements correctly.  What I end up with is a single column that contains all the elements on the page.  This causes significant problems when browsing the Xbox homepage.  Although, Firefox still displays it correctly.

PS.  This is my first LJ post and as such is not as interesting as I would like it to be.

Edit:  Apparently, you can add "United States English" as a language in the International System Preference.  Oddly enough, this is not the default action even though you are required to select your language and locality during installation / initial setup.