Month: May 2007

Goodbye, Treo 650

My Treo 650 is dead. A few days ago it stopped working - wouldn't turn on, wouldn't charge. I futzed around it for it a bit and got it to work for a few hours. And then it stopped working again. And then I got it working again...

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TV shows that run over – weak. Super weak.

Following up on the American Idol 6 finale running over it's time slot... Irate `American Idol' fans shocked as DVR recordings miss ending There were complaints earlier this month after a key episode of "Heroes" ran several...

TiVo

Amazon Unbox so far a no-go on my TiVo Series 3

I just registered for Amazon Unbox and I read in several places that the TiVo Series 3 is supported. However, after linking my Amazon account with my TiVo account, only my Philips Series 1 DVR showed up. So I went to TiVo Online...

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American Idol final goes into overtime

Though the result is out, I am not going to spoil it for those of you who don't want to have it spoiled for you. The subject of my post is the format of the show. They stretched the show out to 2 hours and used the 2 hours to...

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Emperor Norton

Our local casual Italian restaurant/pizza joint has great pizza and a strange name, "Emperor Norton". A name so odd deserves an explanation and it turns out to be a rather interesting story: Wikipedia: Emperor Norton Only in San...

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

WordPress 2.2 was released while I was out of town. Upgrading was a snap - just did svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.2, resolved some conflicts in two files, went to the admin page and upgraded the...

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Back in the USA

We're back from our 3 week trip to Amsterdam, Brussels, Brugges, Bath, London, and Paris. More to come soon, including lots of photos...