The Senate on Monday voted unanimously to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12. We’ve been preparing for Feb 17, 2009 for 4 years … why push it back now? Just because there’s a new administration in the White House? It seems to me that this [...]
Archive of entries posted in January 2009
1TB of storage at home, nice!
Shortly after the new year began, I started converting all of my DVDs (and even some old VHS tapes!) into MP4 format with the goal being immediate access to my entire video library on any TiVo in the house using tools like pyTivo or streambaby. About two weeks into the project it became readily apparent [...]
WIJFR: World War Z
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the plague [...]
Tiny Bluetooth dongle
The $3 tiny Bluetooth adapter for my Eee PC finally arrived! I guess I didn’t realize it was coming from Hong Kong directly to me, which is why it took 10 days. I love the typos on the packaging due to translation. Apparently this will make a PC “Bluelooth” enabled is “supporting vioce data” as [...]
Inaugural panorama
Check out this incredible panoramic photo of President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday (found via Gizmodo). You can zoom in and see faces, not only of the important people behind the podium (Al Gore, the Clintons, President Bush, etc.) but of folks in the crowd. If you were there on the National Mall, you might [...]
Super Bowl prep
I work just down the street from Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and site of Super Bowl XLIII in just over a week. As the big day approaches, it’s getting busier and busier in the general area. The logos and signage are all over the stadium and the surrounding fences, light [...]
Stream, Baby, Stream
Over the past few months I’ve dabbled with tivostream to send MP4-encoded video to my HD TiVo boxes, but usually I rely upon pyTivo to watch my video library. Tonight, kearygriffin over on the TiVo Community Forum announced streambaby (Stream, Baby, Stream) which builds on and extends what moyekj started with tivostream. As with its [...]
Stop stealing my credit card!
This past Saturday afternoon I received an automated call from my credit card company saying that there were some suspicious charges that they wanted me to verify. The computerized voice dutifully read off the past three transactions and asked to confirm that I recognized all of them. Unfortunately, there was one I didn’t: a $1 [...]
100k
On my morning commute today I hit 100,000 miles on my 2003 Toyota Highlander: 100k and still going strong!
We’re #1 (and totally buzzed)!
Tampa is the “most caffeinated” city in the U.S. according to this MSNBC article. Take that, Seattle and Chicago! Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go get another cup of coffee.
