The HDHomeRun seems to be a pretty useful device. There are a bunch of people on the MythTV mailing lists trying these things out at the moment. It’s a networked dual tuner HD set top box. Kinda cool. Now, if only someone would come up with a digital cable card which works with MythTV…
As pointed out by a friend at work
Trends for “return gift”: . Who would have thought that people only return gifts at Christmas?
Reactive economies?
The other day while in Costco (for the foreigners, think Bunnings or some other hardware warehouse, but for food), I was graced with this conversation at the checkout, between two Costco employees: e1: Where the hell is e3? e2: Oh, we didn’t meet our sales target yesterday, so they cut hours today. e1: So he’s…
Bloomberg: How to handle those annoyingly poor relatives at Christmas
Resist the urge to impress family members with your purchasing power and instead give them only what they can afford to give you. Avoid luxury goods, for example, or other items redolent of leisure. Choose, instead, gifts that encourage productive labour. Hand tools, say, or cookbooks. Obviously your gift needs to say, “I love you,”…
When in San Diego, visit the aircraft carrier
Just a note to myself to remember to visit the USS Midway if I ever find myself in San Diego.
Christmas morning
Our kids seem to have the Christmas thing under control — I remember waking my folks up at 5am to open presents, but our kids let us sleep in today until nearly 8:30am. They liked their presents heaps, so if you got something for them, well done. I’ll put some pictures online later when I…
Tempe, AZ to Mountain View, CA in a day!
Andrew’s sick, Catherine’s tired. So we’re driving home in one day. That’s 733 miles.
Remember to visit the Ronald Regan Presidential library
Remember to visit the Ronald Regan Presidential library, especially because it has planes. I like planes.
Back on the road again
James and I are driving back to Los Angeles today. We’re not running any cameras at the moment, basically because while I now have two nice cameras with better optics and a nice external antenna for the EDGE card, I am having trouble finding a video4linux 2 web cam application. I’ve got some code which…
Los Angeles to Tempe
Another video! This time from Los Angeles to Tempe, along the I-10 E, thru the desert and part a nuclear reactor.