Some folk at LCA expressed interest in my video blog aggregator for MythTV. I’ve cleaned it up, and just sent out the first release: Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:38:04 -0800 From: Michael Still To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: MythIpTv Beta 1 Hi. I’ve been recently wanting a video blog aggregator which integrates with MythTV….
More bomb shelters!
People who visit here (of which I assume there are none) will know that I occasionally rant about how cool bomb shelters are. Dad put me onto this excellent article about the Swiss: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6347519.stm Under Swiss law, local governments are required to provide shelter spaces for everyone, and in the early 1970s Lucerne was short…
Akimbo
I was at Fry’s today with the kids, and while wandering around I came across the Akimbo. It’s an interesting device — a hardware player that downloads content over your Internet connection, and then plays those videos for you when you ask nicely. You can select what you want to download form their website, and…
Time for a status update?
It’s been a while since I’ve commented on the MythTV book project, so it’s worth a quick status update. We’re basically into the home straight now — we’ve decided what to cover in the book (which of course involves missing out on a few things which could be in there if we had infinite space…
Big TVs are evil, Ok?
The NFL apparently nastygrammed a church for planning to host a Super Bowl party. The original complaint was first that the church was charging people, but also that they used the term “Super Bowl” (as if people would somehow believe that the church was associated with the NFL?). After the church agreed to let people…
Planes at 600 meters!
On Friday, an aircraft hired by Google will be doing a series of low-level swoops over parts of Sydney, photographing the ground and waters below. The three-seater plane, decked out in Google livery, will have special permission to fly at an altitude of 600m. Providing the photographs turn out to be good enough quality, the…
Slack talk at SLUG
Slides are online, and the talk was videoed, so I imagine that the video will go online one day too.
That’s one way of doing it…
Does anyone else think it’s kind of creepy that you need a secret code to submit paper proposals for Microsoft’s TechEd conference? Cause I sure do. I guess that explains why there aren’t many community sessions at TechEd.
Screenshots of entire webpages using Firefox
ScreenGrab 0.8 looks useful for authors wanting to take screen shots of entire webpages, not just the bit that fits on their screen.
Please don’t
A fresh cup mentions the Ruby on Rails exception notifier plugin. The idea is that every time an exception is raised in your code you get an email. This is such a horrible idea that I need to take the time to comment. As someone who spends all his time dealing with large deployments of…