According to this thread, you can take a drive with a back up of your stand alone series two software on it and put it in a directTIVO and it will work fine. Including the new HMO features and all the satellite features. This is kind of amazing from a technical point of view. You…
Month: November 2003
Why homeschool
I was reading Mrs. du Toit’s post on why she took her kids out of public school and what the problems are. I posted a comment, but here is a recap. Lot’s of good stuff. I totally agree. We never put our kids in the public school system and only put the eldest in a…
Traffic Ticket Suggestions
Got this link in the mail to day on what effects you getting a ticket. I drive a bright red Firebird. Which the guy selling me the car said wouldn’t really effect getting tickets. Sure…. But I also have tendency to lead the pack. Written while listening to “Sara Smile” album Greatest Hits Rock ‘n…
Longest running TV shows
Had in interesting discussion of the longest running TV shows, because my son asked me yesterday and we agreed on the Simpsons. But that’s only true of sitcoms. And how you ask the questions. Here’s a list by number of episodes and here’s one by time. Written while listening to “Country Boy Can Survive” album…
Blog Factors
I subscribe to Jacob Neilson’s usability email and he always has good things to stay. He book on Web Usability is a must read. Today I got his “Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines“. In my continuing series of blog usability factors I thought I’d translate some of them for bloggers. I also will be…
Go for it John
I like John Cusack because he was the lead in one of my favorite movies, Grosse Pointe Blank. And now it looks like he getting a shot at Britney. He is always called the star of High Fidelity, which I thought was a really dumb movie about a jerk. I like Serendipity though because of…
Suicide Blonde
I was passing a co-workers office and a really cool picture of some hot chick came up on his computer and I went to see who it was. I was lead to a stupid site with obnoxious java script and I won’t even link to it. But I did find some wall papers of Adriana…
Matrix Revolutions: Actors
Shelia had a post about someone’s review of Matrix Revolutions. A buddy of mine and I we to see it last night. I’m not going to really give a review but here’s some actor related thoughts: As a non-actor reviewing acting there were some interesting things in Revolutions. There was more than one point in…