Things so normal as to not fit neatly into any other area.
I have successfully bumped my DirecTiVo unit from 30 hours to 107 hours! It was a pain, but I finally got a PC that was stable long enough for this to happen. I only have to upgrade two more (!) and I’m done. I now have weeks worth of programming available at any time… and no fear of it getting deleted when I leave town.
Yay me!
I’ve managed to bring back a Tivo unit from the dead, using only my skills as a l33t hax0r d00d. Actually I scoured the net and downloaded a bunch of images I then burned to CD and booted my test/home system to Linux to copy them over to the Tivo. All this after dismantling the Tivo completely. All I can say is when that stupid Tivo logo starts dancing on the TV I never thought I’d be so happy.
Next up: major size upgrade on the hard drive. Will the fun ever stop?
Here it is, the new year already, and I haven’t posted since September. What happened? Work happened, I suppose. Well a new resolution for the year is to keep this thing more up to date, so lets see how long I keep it!
I’m back from the Asia trip, work related, of course. Soon I’m off to visit the Redmond boys, so another trip is ahead. For a new job, there sure is little time to get work done with all of this travelling. Goofy.
Well, I made it back from vacation and it ended up alright. Next steps are to write it all up, send the pictures out for development (darn film) and post it all up here. Maybe it will get done shortly, we’ll see.
New job started today and requires me to fly out of here (and out of the US) starting on Saturday for a week. Gotta love that travel stuff. Frequent flyer miles, here I come!
I admit it: my last work days are a bit less stressful and far less tasking than what I have previously experienced. That has led some people to opin that I am happy. To that thought I say “bah, humbug!” I may be smug, but I’m no gleeful school kid.
That said, it is good to have supporters of my actions. Even better, it is great to have people who push me to do the right things. The best is when they pay for drinks and/or buy airplane parts. If only this could happen all of the time 😉
Oh, and if you are looking for a job, try starting here.
Here are the quick updates as they are today:
That’s all for now.
I played a bit this weekend. Some Empire Earth, some Ghost Recon. But mostly I just tried to keep my PC running. And that’s the key to it all, isn’t it?
After some thinking I’m starting to wonder about the future of entertainment in the home. It is sure to be great, but I’m not sure how it should all work out. Will people besides me want to have all of their media available all of the time? I hope so.
First off happy new year! Now that that’s out of the way it’s time to make some resolutions. Here they are:
That should do it for now. If I come up with other stuff I’ll post it here. Oh, and you can expect to see a lot more changes once I learn MySQL.
I can’t say that I did much over the holidays but I guess I had that coming. I have had the opportunity to see a few movies, and most were pretty good: Spy Game, Miss Congeniality, One Night at McCool’s, and Requiem for a Dream.
Finally got my two new games up and running and they are great. You should go play them (if you have days to give up): Empire Earth and Flight Simulator 2002.