This is the third book in the Deverry series, and is very readable. This book is a little different from the previous two because the two plots aren’t as strongly linked as they have been in the previous two books. In previous books they’ve been interleaved, whereas in this book the first half of the…
Prince of the Blood
This is a follow on to the Riftwar Series that follows Borric and Erland (Arthura’s sons) as they travel to Kesh for the Empress’ 75th birthday celebrations. Along the way they grow up quite a lot, and learn what it means to rule. To be honest, the story is ok, but a little shallow. Its…
MythTV Chapter Ready: Selecting Hardware
The Selecting Hardware chapter is now ready. This chapter details the benefits of starting small, how to select the right hardware for a MythTV system if you’re building one from scratch, and what the authors use for their MythTV systems. This chapter was originally written by Stewart Smith, and this version was reviewed by Josh…
MythNetTV talk
I gave a MythNetTV talk at linux.conf.au yesterday, and it went remarkably well. Hardly any fruit was thrown. I’m quite please that so far two patches have been sent to me after the talk, and questions in the talk promoted a release of version 7. I should share the following resources from the talk: the…
MythNetTV release 7
This release is smaller than the last one, but has some bug fixes which folk might find handy. New things in this release: Better testing: r232: Simple script to create the unit testing database New features: r210: Allow users to override the default bittorrent upload rate r212: Provide more sync information when running in verbose…
MythTV Chapter Ready: Introduction
The Introduction chapter of the online MythTV book is now ready. This chapter covers the definition of a personal video recorder (PVR), the components of such a system, the various alternatives that are available, why MythTV might be the right choice, and briefly explains the MythTV version number scheme. Thanks to Michael Carden for doing…
Observations on the Wrest Point hotel
Some simple observations on the Wrest Point hotel… The room is nice, but nothing fancy. The in room internet is free, but doesn’t work. Most importantly, the breakfast place in the hotel plays Weird Al while you’re eating.
Introducing the online MythTV book
When parts of the first edition of the MythTV book became out of date, I decided to take the book online and ask others to help me improve it and bring it up to date. There is a blog for announcements, at http://mythtvbook.com/blog and if you’re interested in helping out, please visit the Help Wanted…
Travelling to Hobart today
After some initial uncertainty because of the economy, I am travelling to Hobart today for linux.conf.au 2009. I’m speaking at the MythTV mini-conf about MythNetTV, as well as a new MythTV book I have been working on for a while. It will be good to get there, although I wont manage that until about 10pm…
The Compleat Bolo
I read this book on flights. This book is a collection of several Bolo short stories, as well as two longer stories. This was a pretty common technique it seems with early science fiction, and it works ok here as long as you remember that the chapters are unlinked short stories. In fact, several of…