jwz: Those of you with Tivo may have noticed an irritating trend that the networks have started, of marking hour long shows as being 61 minutes long in the schedule. That extra minute will make Tivo skip recording a show on another channel that started at 9.
This strikes me as funny since the networks think they’re being smart while getting out played by a different PVR…
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I just realized that for all of the comments and emails and IM’s that I’ve had about the Mac mini and the iPod shuffle, I never got around to posting a blurb about it here. And in spite of all the conversations I’ve on about the latest round of hardware releases from Apple, I don’t have all that much to say about it, but what I do have to say doesn’t seem to be repeated by every Apple fan I hear from.
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Update for MT users: w.Bloggar has finally opted to start supporting the extra fields of MovableType with their 4.0 release… I didn’t notice if TypePad was specifically supported, but it should be, if MT3 is supported. Just an FYI for those of you that like the UI on w.Bloggar over SharpMT, since we’re all part of one big happy blogsphere – I refuse to trash talk for a bigger share of a market that doesn’t make money!
Honest! I’m still working on the port of SharpMT to the next release of the .NET Framework – seeing new blogging clients out there doesn’t stop me from writing code… lack of time stops me from writing code. And once Beta 2 comes out, I’ll have to re-check most of the code, since I’m currently using Beta 1… ideally though. I hope to get SharpMT to state where I could open up the source code for download, although I’m just toying with that idea… I’d have to clean up a bunch of stuff, too, which is boring, but if it helps to show off the new Framework… maybe… just maybe.
I’ve used TiVo for over two years now. I was wasn’t an “early adopter” for TiVo – in all honesty I was skeptical of the recording purposed and didn’t think I’d need to ever freeze live TiVo. Live and learn: I don’t want to live without it, even if I can do it. Recently I moved up to a Tivo2 box and have been less than impressed with the results… somethings were better but other things were lacking to the point of my signing up for the Comcast DVR service – I just got the box today…
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Here’s a typical game of Halo 2, if you blindly get matched into a “Big Team Battle”: You start to play a round. One of the two teams loses that first round. The “cry-baby” gamers from the losing team drop out of the game, leaving a team very shorthanded.
Why are people such dicks? Genetics, probably, but thankfully Bungie punishes those that have to live with a head in the shape of a penis tip:
Q: Does it count as a loss if I quit out of a ranked game early? A: Yes. You automatically get last place.
Don’t be a Deathmatch dick!
I’ve watched “Good Day, New York” for years. Over 15 years actually. It’s one of the few shows that I’ve missed watching during the last seven months. You can imagine that I was looking forward to catching it a few times during my vacation… and I’m glad that I did see a few episodes. Unfortunately one of the reporters that has joined the show over the last few months made me want to drop kick the TV.
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Fox Sports: Calling the [final World Series out] ball, “my retirement fund,” [first baseman, Doug] Mientkiewicz stored it in a safety deposit box. Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino said Thursday he’s going to ask Mientkiewicz to return it to the team. “We want it to be part of Red Sox archives or museums so it can be shared with the fans,” Lucchino told The Boston Globe. “We would hope he would understand the historical nature of it.” Mientkiewicz seems to understand it very well, which is exactly why he held on to it.
Can’t the Red Sox do anything right? I swear, they could somehow fuck up a wet dream.
I keep up on Mac news from a few different Blogs, including MacMinute and The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), and through other random sites like Neowin and C-Net. Keeping tabs on Apple news started before I got my first iPod and has stretched long past the dumping of my PowerBook… I might not have much skin in the game right now, since I’ve only got a couple of iPod, but I like to keep up with their new releases. Having said that, I think it’s time to kill off my subscription to TUAW, because they’ve gone completely off the deep end lately. I feel like I’m being intellectually tithed and it’s giving me gout.
Update: Lisa DiCarlo seems to have a similar opinion on Apple’s latest behavior on Forbes.com.
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My vacation is just about over, now. Sadly, I did not one bit of coding for my side projects this holiday season – sorry about that – but winter is settling in, which should help to keep me in front of a computer (or an Xbox) more often than not. I also took the down time to tweak my ThinkPad: I’ve ordered a replacement modem for my T41 – for some reason, they stacked the internal Bluetooth module onto the modem – and popped in an additional 256MB RAM which brings me up to 1GB. I also pinged IBM for a replacement keyboard and write rest, since they are worn shiny and covered under warrantee…
However, the big reflection came to me while I was driving to my parents’ house last night.
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