Ever since getting the Wii Fit back in May and having the balance board pronounce me “overweight” I’ve been more focused on my personal fitness: I’ve been watching what I eat, eating less, and exercising more. When my eyes were opened by the Wii balance board, my BMI was 26 and I weighed 200lbs. Earlier [...]
Archive of entries posted in September 2008
TiVo on your PC
TiVo and Nero today announced LiquidTV, a package that brings the TiVo experience to your Windows-based PC available on October 15. There are plenty of great blog articles covering this new product, like Megazone’s over on Gizmo Lovers. It looks pretty slick … it’s basically the TiVo interface on your PC, something (some) people have [...]
Got my tickets!
I was selected in the lottery to be able to purchase Rays playoff tickets for Game 5 of the ALDS at Tropicana Field. Hopefully we won’t need to play a fifth game, but I’ll be there at the Trop if we do! We’re still waiting to see if the Rays will be playing the Twins [...]
From worst to first!
It didn’t happen quite the way they it wanted to, but I suspect they’re not going to complain. With the Red Sox loss to the Yankees last night, the Tampa Bay Rays clinched their first ever American League East division title. After finishing dead last last year at 66-96 and never having won more than [...]
WIJFR: Mattimeo
Preparations for the feast for the Summer of the Golden Plain are underway at Redwall Abbey, and young Mattimeo’s mother sets him to work with the other inhabitants. His father, Matthias, is the guardian of Redwall Abbey and it is this fact that puts the young Mattimeo in danger as the evil Slagar the Fox [...]
Finally got to use my circular saw
The day before Hurricane Charley hit back in 2004, I cut plywood sheets to protect all of our windows using my tiny jigsaw (which is all I had at the time), and it took forever: But now that our new impact-resistant hurricane windows are in (partially paid for by the state of Florida thanks to [...]
Clinch!
The Rays beat the Twins tonight 7-2, clinching their first ever playoff berth! Could they possibly hold on and win the division?
WIJFR: The Mote in God’s Eye
In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick [...]
Western Digital RMA snafu
So last night my RMA replacement for my failed WD Expander arrived. I opened the box and found … an internal 500gb SATA drive, just the bare drive. So I called up Western Digital and spoke with a support rep. I explained that I had opened an RMA for my external MyDVR Expander and received [...]
My enhancement to Galleon’s weather app (officially, this time)
Last month I added a small enhancement to Galleon’s weather app that allowed for a user-selectable range for the radar image (instead of using the default 600-mile one). I published my source code changes and the new jar file here on my blog. Now earlier this month, jtkohl released Galleon 2.5.3 which contained a fix [...]
