Hah, poetic justice. I worked on the Xbox 360 launch team, and today my Xbox 360 Launch Console died with the "Red Ring of Death". It actually started freezing  during game play last week, and the freezes just got worse and worse, until today it wouldn't even turn on.

I am very happy that Microsoft recently decided to extend the Xbox warranty program to cover the "3 red lights" error code problem for three years rather than the original one year.

Now I just have to live without my Xbox 360 for the 6-8 weeks it takes to repair it. (The Xbox customer support rep said it was pretty likely that I would get my original plastics back, which I hope is true because I have a special "launch team" case.)

I should hopefully get it back in time to play Halo 3. :-)