One of the holiday gifts I got was the DVD boxed set of Wonderfalls TV shows. It’s entertaining dialogue by Tim Minear and others. I am into the third disk when Jewel Staite makes her appearance as “Heidi” at the very end of the first episode on the disk. In other news, I saw Alan […]
Tagged Fun, Jewel Staite, television, WonderfallsMy lovely partner, Erci, tried to smell nice for me or for work, or perhaps both by applying a little Eau de Toilette Moonlight Path which is a Bath & Body Works product I think. Her intentions are wonderful, but something in that oil/perfume induced sneezing, nausea, and constriction of my air passages in my […]
Tagged allergies, cologne, perfumeSo it appears that the DishPVR 508 can play Dolby Digital (AC-3) just fine when the channel and programming have it (nearly all HBO programming, several networks); but if you capture a show with Dolby Digital encoding, the encoding is lost as the PVR function only captures stereo…. unless I am doing something wrong. Update: […]
So I had a lot of fun over the past several days researching possible upgrades to our old surround sound receiver. It has been an educational week or so, and in the process I completely gutted our two entertainment center stacks of gear; vacuumed out the cubby holes where everything was, wiping it all down, […]
Tagged audio, HDTV, Music, receiver, videoThis is for all those audio/video geeks out there; I am perplexed by connectivity options for our audio and video gear, and have been overwhelmed by options. I think we may need a new receiver…. We mostly watch a DISH Network Dish DVR 508 that has S-Video, Composite video, RCA Stereo, and TOSLINK (optical for […]
Tagged audio, home theatre, videoWe had a fantastic Winter Gather with La Belle Compagnie warming and filling the house. We’ve used all the bedrooms before, but I can’t recall when we had need for more like we did this time. Planning was done for the Spring public shows (Military Through the Ages, Marching Through Time, and International Congress on […]
Tagged la belle, petsTunePost keeps improving their beta, now it correctly identifies your older version of flash and prompts a FlashPlayer 10 install to get it to work. So if you had trouble with the stuff I posted a couple days ago, download FlashPlayer 10 and try again. The following playlist is guitar music: flamenco, classical, spanish, and […]
Tagged TunePostJust messing around with the early public beta from TunePost. This might not work for everyone, but you should get music when you hit the play button in the embedded code window below… For those who prefer Rock, and a whole playlist rather than just one targeted song:
We’ve been virtualizing our systems where I work for months now. OpenSuSE 11 with Xen virtualization and many OpenSuSE virtual servers on each physical server. Today that paid off big time, when I needed to clear one of the physical servers off, I was able to simply shutdown the virtual servers on that host, copy […]
My New Year’s Eve started with me day cleaning my home office thoroughly, a multi-day job I am only getting started on; I want to reorganize and deep clean everything and re-configure my home work space… I wasted a few hours fighting with horribly written Windows software to update our old Garmin StreetPilot 2620 GPS […]
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