Tomorrow, my 57″ HDTV finally earns a purpose. A Comcast tech will be stopping by in the afternoon to deliver my new high definition DVR, which will enable me to receive HDTV channels and also record HD programs. Due to shortages, it’s taken over a month for the HD equipment to actually become [...]

I should have known better than to celebrate being done with something, ’cause now I’ve got a replacement something.
No sooner did I ship off the product of this weekend’s work then I received a phone call from my boss. My day-job boss, I mean. It looks like he and I, plus one of [...]

I did it — in a little less than 48 hours, Phase 3 is done, and so is 99% of the side work I’ve recently taken on. I’ll be submitting the last of it to the client tomorrow. There may be some revisions to implement, but by and large, it’ll soon be time [...]

My mind right now: “Let’s see, what can I do that will help me avoid actually getting any work done? Ah, I know — I’ll post on my site.”
I’ve spent the last…what, three?…three weekends working on an extensively large side project for my previous employer. It’s one of those “Help, it’s an emergency [...]

Here’s a random, yet still on-topic discussion about video games in general. As we move closer and closer to Total Reality Simulation™ in the games of today, with photo-realistic graphics, immersive physics and lifelike sounds, does anyone else feel like the games of yesterday were somehow more compelling?
Perhaps it has to do with differing [...]

Hello all, and welcome to Retro Gaming Month, Mark II. I did this once before, almost three years ago (has it been that long? geesh). While my previous attempts to celebrate an entire month filled with wacky, antiquated PC gaming fun were aborted shortly thereafter, today I decided to pick up the torch [...]

And again, I bring our TiVo back from the brink of destruction. Actually, it was more like a resuscitation, as the little black box was already clinically dead. I mentioned this tale of woe a couple of days ago, when our TiVo committed suicide during my dinner hour. In the hours after [...]

A while back, I had read Superman Returns described as “Superman Catches Falling Shit”. Since then, I’ve been intrigued to see the movie (since I’m a Superman fan), which I finally did tonight. Perhaps sadly, the aforementioned description wasn’t too far off, though a better title for the movie might be “Superman Does a Lot [...]

Upon further consideration, I don’t think I am having that much luck with my 24004A TiVo Series2 box. I bought it as a Christmas gift for Apple in 2004, which means that it is almost exactly two years old. My parents contributed a Lifetime Service Agreement, which enabled us to avoid paying TiVo [...]