While perusing the web this morning I ran across something that made me very happy; the playstation 3 has finally been hacked!  Hacked by Geohot, the same guy that first hacked the iphone no less.  This guys a legend!

Currently this doesn’t mean anything other than a glimmer of hope for us frustrated owners of the PS3, but Geohots released an exploit, tutorial, and encouraged hardcore console hacking enthusiasts to document research on the psDevWiki.  This means that hackers can start building software to enhance the playstations capabilities.

Sony built a console with tons of potential as media centre, and marketed it as such.  Sadly however, they failed to deliver anything more than something rather mediocre.  I’d love to make my PS3 my media centre, but it just isn’t good enough.

In case Sony (who are no doubt depressed right about now) come across my blog heres a few features I desperately want in my playstation.

1) Last fm scrobbling.  I’ve been scrobbling music to last.fm since 26th March 2004.  Building up statistics of music I listen to.  I’m not going to play music primarily through my ps3 until it can scrobble my plays.

2) Media Server Capabilities.  If you want me to put all my media on my ps3, then I’d damn well better be able to share it with my other devices.  Why cant I sync it to an mp3 player?  Stream it to my laptop or other computers?

3) I bought a PSP because provided my ps3 is on standby, I can travel, and providing I have access to the internet, use my psp to turn on my ps3 and browse the media on it.  I’d presumed my psp would be able to DOWNLOAD the media from my ps3, not simply stream it…  Seriously, I mean, if its streaming the media anyway, then all the psp needs to do is SAVE the media for playback when my psp is no longer connected to the internet.  How is this not an obvious idea?  I have since sold my psp.

Now that the ps3 has been hacked, and hope renewed for hackers hardcore or not, maybe we can let ourselves dream about ps3 features we would love to see.

What would you like to see enabled on the playstation 3?  Leave your comments below.

Thanks once again to Geohot for improving my iphone, and making this leap of progress for my ps3.

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Yesterday I went climbing with some new found friends.  We went to a local climbing spot in cougar canyon which was SWEET!  I’m not really in the habbit of climbing with the proper gear; ropes, shoes, harness’, chalk bag, etc.  However a few months ago I bought the basic essentials and climbed at some indoor walls 2 or 3 times in preparation for coming out here to Canada.

Free solo climbing is awesome fun, and I love to feel so close to death, something I feel (with regards to climbing) very capable of doing safely.  If that makes sense.  It’s all about knowing your ability extremely well, and having a really good judge of what hold and grip can take your weight.  Free soloing also opens up a rather substantial reservoir of energy.  It’s the whole “if i don’t do this right, then I die” factor.   It makes a huge difference which I definitely notice the lack of when climbing with ropes.

However, climbing with ropes is awesome too.  First of, it enables me to try things I wouldn’t normally try, I can experiment more with various techniques and holds, and I can also attempt rock faces I wouldn’t normally attempt.  It’s ultimately is the better way to improve at climbing.

So yesterday we went out to cougar canyon, which was only a short walk from where we parked.  we set up some ropes and began climbing some 20meter(I guess) climbs.  There was a cool cave like overhang bit that I wanted to play in, but there where a whole load of wasps hanging about which put me of considerably.  On the other side of the waspy area there was a 30meter climb, which I really wanna go back and try again, as I totally failed it yesterday.  Orion beat it in 4 minutes!  FOUR! That seems pretty fast to me but he wasn’t happy with it.

There are more pictures in my photo’s page.

Making our way there

Free soloing, yay!

The bigger climb

Well done Jaz!

man! I wanna go climbing again soon!

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