Okay, so I completely took apart my PS3 and dusted the hell out of it and cleaned and cleared every little corner. To recap, my PS3 starting shutting itself off for no reason. The only thing I could think of was I had just done a firmware update, but until then, I've never had an issue with this. Usually, with my own PC, if it shuts down frequently, it's usually caused by excess heat, poor ventilation, or dusty fans. So I took apart the whole PS3, piece by piece and cleaned it all up. I've been leaving it on for long perionds of time, and it seems to have done it, for now anyway. 
I couldn't resist, and bought the HD version of Code Veronica X from the RE 20th anniversary sales on PSN this week. It looks great. Much better than I remember, and it is still one of the hardest games in the series. God forbid I get an extra healing item, or lack of bullet sponge swamp thingie monsters. Which reminds me. The revelations game had lame bullet sponge enemies which totally ruined that game for me. In Code Veronica X, there are moments where these super enemies just appear and the tension just elevates through the roof. I've actually died alot during these enemy jump scares because I had no idea 'that was about to happen'. I can see also how the game started diverging from the series and becoming far more actiony like the later games 4, 5 & 6. Interesting.
Anyway, this whole thing started because I wanted to do a playthrough of Final Fantasy games, and my PS3 would die while playing FF 8. Without a PS3, it would be hard to do a series play through, without emulating, but I hate messing with emulators on PC.
D&D
Matt has been running a D&D campaign by e-mail for the last week and it is super fun! It's mostly story driven, but the story is quite entertaining. It's a fun passive interactive experience that I've never really tried before. It's like choose your own adventure book, but you are interacting directly with the author affecting other characters and events.
And thats all for now.
I wouldn't dare open my PS3 or any other console for that matter. I just make sure it has plenty of space to breathe. So far so good.
Actually, my PS3 had a loose HDMI connector and the video would cut out all the time, so I cracked it open and soldered it tight, and no more problems thereafter. That's why taking it apart wasn't that big of a deal for me. It was getting old anyway.
I wish I'd kept my old Halo 3 edition Xbox 360. I wanted to tinker with that after it red-ringed. Instead, I gave it to a friend and he gutted the thing. I'm kicking myself over that now.
I bought a bunch of black cloth napkins to cover my consoles with when I'm not using them (goes well with my black entertainment center lol). It does a great job of keeping the dust off of them.
So in that D&D picture, which character is you? 
I need to look into those dust clothes. The thing is, I put PS3 away for a while where it prob just collected loads of dust.
I need to take apart my GCN controller, but Nintendo made it a bitch to get apart with the types of screws they used.
So that's what the inside of a PS3 looks like. I tried to do the hard drive swap once, and that was the farthest I have gotten in opening the PS3.