Monthly Archives: October 2005

Puerto Rico: Observations from a Rookie

Wow! After playing my first game of Puerto Rico the other night, I must say that I’m impressed with this game. i can certainly see why it’s so highly rated on BoardGameGeek. There sure is quite a bit to digest … Continue reading

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Various Board Game Thoughts

Like most board game fanatics, I’ve been trying to read as many of the Essen ’05 reports I can find. In doing so, I’ve come across quite a few games which seem very interesting to me. The main one’s I’m … Continue reading

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Quick Hits from the Sports World

Titans Dominate Hapless Texans Wow, just when I thought the Titans were scraping the bottom of the barrel, along come the Texans. They are really awful. I feel sorry for David Carr. It has to suck to be the NFL’s … Continue reading

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Update on Wireless ReplayTV Connection

In a previous entry, I talked about the frustration I had to put up with as I tried to modify a couple of Linksys WRT54G routers in order to get my two ReplayTV’s talking to each other wirelessly…. I took back both of the Linksys routers, and I purchased two Buffalo WHR-HP-G54s to take their place.These Buffalo routers support WDS bridging right out of the box…. I’ll stick with the little bit I know how to do in Terminal here on Mac OS X.If you’re looking for a way to wirelessly connect two or more ReplayTVs, then these Buffalo routers are your best bet.

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More on NetNewsWire’s Functionality

I’m assuming that it’s impossible to implement via Applescript because you would think someone would’ve done so by now.While I was browsing the Ranchero NNW Scripts page, I found a new listing for a del.icio.us and Cocoalicious tagging script…. Reading about this new script turned me on to Cocoalicious which is an excellent piece of software all Mac owners should have if they use del.icio.us.This new script allows you to post tagged items to del.icio.us by going through the Cocoalicious interface instead of popping up a browser window…. Now I can see something I think will be handy, post it del.icio.us and keep going through all of my feeds.

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