Whenever a song from Tidal or When The Pawn… comes up in my playlist I wonder What the heck ever happened to Fiona Apple?. Now the blogosphere tells me that her third album, Extraordinary Machine, was shelved over two years ago. Sony didn’t “hear a single.” And sadly, they are correct. The big recording labels […]
Archive for March, 2005
This world is bullshit
19Mar05Battery Monster
15Mar05Is it just me, or does the Microsoft MCE Remote eat up batteries as if they were Atkins-friendly? It just finished off it’s second set after not even six weeks of use. I’ve changed the batteries in my Tivo exactly once in almost two years, I’ve got other remotes that are much older and still […]
Comcast loves Tivo
15Mar05From the Tivo / Comcast Press release:
Under the terms of the agreement, Comcast and TiVo will work together to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be made available on Comcast’s current primary DVR platform. New software will be developed by TiVo and will be incorporated into Comcast’s existing network platforms. The new […]
Role Playing
08Mar05The boss-man was in the office today, he stopped by my office around 09:30 and asked me to visit his temporary digs in a half-hour. I half hoped he was planning a “Sorry, we’re letting you go” speech — I’ve no love for my employer, I’m just trying to stick around long enough to take […]
Almost a Treo 650
07Mar05My local Cingular store called this afternoon to say that they finally had some Treo 650s in stock, would I like them to hold one for me? Sure, I’ll stop by on the way home from work… So I arrive around 4:45pm. The in-store price is $450, a $50 discount from the web store price, […]
404 Not Found
07Mar05So I’m checking up on my web server this weekend, making sure that everything is humming along smoothly since the migration. Perusing my raw access logs I see some signs that my comment spammers continue to adapt — they’ve found the new location of my MT scripts and now appear to be crawling the site […]
Oh Bother
07Mar05As I turned off GT4 and fired up the (recently neglected) Media Center last Wednesday, I thought to myself that I should probably write some more about how much I love XP MCE. Then Murphy came knocking. He told me that he was unable to start recording Lost and that I should reboot and re-schedule […]
Accessories
01Mar05A trip to Best Buy on the way home from work lightened my wallet by $200. I now have the Logitech Cordless Action Controller for PS1/2 and Precision Cordless Controller For Xbox, a Sony 8MB Memory Card for PS2, an ACTION REPLAY MAX EVO for infinite saves to USB storage, and the ever-elusive Sony PS2 […]
