Monthly Archives: September 2005
NetNewsWire & Bloglines
I’ve been using NetNewsWire for about four months now to keep track of all of my RSS feeds. Before, I was using Bloglines to keep track of my feeds at home and at work. I always knew NNW could sync … Continue reading
AFL Grand Final
I don’t know how may people here in the States got to watch the Grand Final live, but in Nashville we weren’t able to see it because of Hurricane Rita. I think the feed for all of the Eastern States goes through Houston, and there wasn’t anyone at the control desk to turn on the feed since they’ve all been evacuated prior to Rita making landfall.I know people on the West Coast (L.A.)… Combine that with the live audio feed in the Net, and we were in hog heaven.I asked some of the Australians in attendance at our bar if they ever thought they’d be watching and listening to the Grand Final over the Internet with a delayed web cam feed.
Continue readingLost Season Premiere
Abrams gave us just enough to make the season finale seem like it happened just last week…. But then they tie it back in with the hatch explosion and you realize watch you’ve just been watching. That’s damn good television.I guess the producers were right when they said we wouldn’t be disappointed at the Emmy’s.
Continue readingFrustrating Weekend of Linksys Router Hacking
For all of you who are married, you know you have to deliver once the wife gets an idea in her idea.So I went about setting up another DVR in a normal fashion…. The only 2 firmware projects that support what I needed (WDS) are HyperWRT and OpenWRT.HyperWRT is the most similar to the stock Linksys firmware out of these two…. I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning on both Saturday and Sunday poring over OpenWRT documentation trying my damnedest to get the routers to talk to each other.After fiddling with both routers most of the day on Sunday, I decided that I was just going to reset everything to the default settings and return the routers.
Continue readingStrange Things Are Afoot at the Circle K
I did have a DNS problem a few months back, so maybe that’s cropped up again.I always think the worst when I can’t get to a site…. The Supreme Court obviously didn’t think it was a good idea to deregulate the cable lines…. They said it was cool for the Government to seize private property so long as someone had a better use for it.
Continue readingiPod nano
Over the last week, the iPod nano has been a gigantic topic on the Internets…. All I’m going to say is that I’ve already made plans to sell my iPod mini and Shuffle in order to buy a Black nano…. There are just some weird things MarsEdit does that I don’t like.
Continue readingTicket to Ride
I gave up Warhammer because it took too much time to paint my figures and get them ready, and I never had anywhere that was close by to play either.After quitting Warhammer, I started playing Magic: The Gathering…. In all, I probably spent over $1000 on that game, and I had a bit of a “Come to Jesus” moment once I realized half the cards I owned weren’t valuable in the Type 2 environment any longer…. So I started browsing around Board Game Geek just to see what’s hot.As I was browsing over the different Geek Lists, I realized that Ticket to Ride was getting almost universal acclaim.
Continue readingMac mini: 30 days and Counting
My wife and I had to finally lay our aging Wintel box to rest about a month ago. I’ve had that machine since 1999, and I have to say it served it’s purpose phenomenally. It was only the last 3 … Continue reading
Labor Day Trip in Doubt
My wife and are were talking about driving down to Atlanta to visit with some of our friends down there for the long weekend. We also have a friend from college who’s in a rehab hospital down there after a … Continue reading