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TiVo Shakeup

posted Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

Looks like things are changing for TiVo, and it doesn’t look like it’s in the right direction.
DirecTV is dropping them later in the year for a new 100 hour DVR box without the TiVo name, and Tivo has gone and pulled out of the Comcast deal in the meantime.
I like my DVR, but [...]

Learn something new… every 50-odd years.

posted Friday, January 14th, 2005

I don’t know if you’d call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. … I speak plainly sometimes, but you’ve got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don’t know if you’d [...]

That Damned Tech Itch…

posted Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

Must… Not… Scratch…
Got a new Dell Latitude D600 in the office today for one of the partners here. I’m setting it up for him this afternoon, and I gotta say, this thing is nice. Powerful yet small and light, and still has serial, parallel, USB2.0 and any other kind of port you’d want [...]

Looks like Curt was right…

posted Monday, January 10th, 2005

Randy Johnson is a dick. He’s in New York for only a few days and already he’s getting pushy. Good thing for him that he joined the Yankees then, as he’ll fit right in with the rest of the assholes in pinstripes.
I’m all sorts of tense today. I don’t know what it [...]

Getting Your Money’s Worth

posted Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Yeah, so it took two hours of driving in some nasty, snowy weather, but the Umass vs. Xavier game yesterday afternoon was well worth the effort. UMass took the win in not one, not two, but THREE overtime periods. Hell of a game.
Afterwards, Erik, Hoj and I went to a sports bar in [...]

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