Category Archives: Tech, Game, MCE
Looking at some palm pre shots
So…. stoked about the “” shot (apple, you see that? huh do you? huh? how about a functional calendar? grrr). Anyway couple quick thoughts thoughts on my history with palm devices I have allays liked palm and have had then … Continue reading
Walgreens by Homedics Automatic Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor
This piece of junk is dangerously inaccurate and has no ability to be properly calibrated. Avoid at all costs. Frankly at this point after a half week of it stressing out Charise by telling her she is 40 points higher … Continue reading
Garmin 920
Yeah so no pictures yet, been busy with house stuff. I did get a new toy the other day off of craigslist on the cheap, factory sealed. The guy had a pretty good story as to why he had it, … Continue reading
Netgear SC101 Storage center and why not to buy one
To make a long story short I bought a Netgear SC101 SAN, added two seagate 300gig drives to it and and told to mirror them for redundancy. I should have done more research this being a SAN rather then a … Continue reading
Tivo dead? MCE? MythTV? DVR hell and what comes next
I’m a bit sick and just sitting here drooling on my keyboard, sounds like a good time for a long ramble. Ok, so I’m going to make a bold statement here. MS Vista MCE is the future and it’s … Continue reading
If you havn’t go vote: A few thoughts on the evoteing machines
Ok, We had the electronic voting machines in Sunnyvale, not sure what model, I’ll have to try and find out. The poll works complained a bit about one of them being up and down. While I was there some of … Continue reading
GPS ramble
Another blogger game the Garmin a bit of a thumbs down review, which was understandable. It got me thinking a bit and thought I would ramble about GPS life in general. I have never thought much of the Garmin’s. Fugly and … Continue reading
Get what you pay for, free yahoo dvr tech
Yahoo released there free meedio player yesterday. In the eternal search for a better convergence mouse trap I gave it a whirl. Sadly it didn’t stack up very well to MCE or MythTV, though I think the music player was better then … Continue reading
In lighter news, 360 time
I picked up a 360 finaly, played some DOA4, Gun and a bit of Halo2. Good stuff, DOA4 in particular impressed me, though I still prefer the Soul caliber franchise (I like the weapons). Gun seemed fun to but I … Continue reading
Fired SBC and DIrect TV
I fired SBC yesterday, I simple was not getting nearly enough throughput and they seemed to keep raising the prices every month by a few bucks. So now we have Comcast again. They are claiming 6mb dl and 768k ul, … Continue reading
No XBox 360 for me :(
Looks like I struck out. I have got to say that I think I agree with the tinfoil hat crowd about MS deliberately engineering the appearance of a shortage. I had retail drones telling me they are not expecting to … Continue reading
Panasonic 4
Well the bulb showed up on Tuesday, put it in, nothing… Shit. Took it out reseated it. Click, everything is hunky dory again and dam I must say the picture looks spectacular when it it’s working right. If anything I … Continue reading
Panasonic 3
Well they called again this morning. Apparently the order fell part way out of system and they lost the credit card information to secure it. They ran it again and said the bulb should still ship today and arrive tomorrow. … Continue reading
Panasonic pt2
Well, I’m still pretty mad but slightly mollified. I found a special 800 number for the consumer affairs department. Apparently they do answer the phone on the weekends. Took about an hour on hold but I expected that. I was … Continue reading
PT-50LC13, POS bulb blew, again
That is IT. I am going to war on Panasonic. I bought my Pany LC13 on 04-30-2004. Within 6 months the ballast went out. Naturally my in-laws where visiting at the time, just make my life even more miserable. This … Continue reading
BlogBridge
I just discovered BlogsBridge. Techcrunch had a short write up. This is perhaps one of the best free RSS clients I have played with. What’s cool? It’s Java so nice cross platform compatibility. If you setup a free account your … Continue reading
Some more Akimbo thoughts, long ramble and response
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5 Things Akimbo needs to change right away
1. Add a filter to hide all pay content in all modes and all channels that only have pay content. Lets see what is really being offered. 2. Fix the navigation bugs. Right now there is not a way from … Continue reading