Ahh the lovely red and green of Christmas...

We were planning to have a round of American Idol Karaoke on the XBox on Christmas Eve (Hey! I don’t judge your family traditions!) when we were greeted with the dreaded “Red Ring of Death” (RRoD). Or, if you prefer, “general hardware failure” as Microsoft likes to call it.

For a brief moment it came back to life--surely a Christmas miracle I thought--but then it returned to its non-functioning state.

Perhaps this is so we will re-focus on the true meaning of Christmas instead...