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TiVo FAIL
Our TiVo died yesterday. It’s probably just the hard drive. I could have gotten a new hard drive for around $100, but then the wife started to look around for a replacement. It is a DirecTV TiVo which they no longer make. She hates the DirecTV DVR like most people, and really wants her Tivo Back. Well, she found some used DirecTV TiVos on Amazon for $50, what a deal. They were even HD TiVos, ours was just SD. So by the end of the week we should have our TiVo back and even get upgraded to HD on our upstairs TV.
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Punchline “The Hit”
My newest CD is from one of my favorite bands Punchline. They just released their first video off of the album. I thought I would share the love here. Enjoy!
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Router FAIL
So I haven’t mentioned my new router problems yet. I specifically ordered a Linksys WRT54GL so I could use the DD-WRT or Tomato Firmware on it. Me, being the cheapskate that I am, tried to order it used off of Amazon. It specifically said it was a “Linksys WRT54GL” and when it arrived it was a “Linksys WRT54GS”, which is unable to run the DDRT or Tomato Firmware. I was pissed. I contacted the seller, and haven’t heard anything back yet. If I don’t hear anything from the seller by October 2nd, I can file a complaint with Amazon.
In the mean time I just ordered a new Linksys WRT54GL from Amazon, and it should be here tomorrow. I sure hope they get it right.
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Watch History Hackers On Friday
A lot of people are excited for the new seasons of their favorite TV shows starting up again, not me. I am bored by most of TV. I like to watch intelligent shows where I can learn something. Jeopardy, Mythbusters, and Smash Labs are about all I am watching on TV these day. I watch way more stuff online.
Bre Pettis is a guy that I have been watching online for years. He makes some pretty cool things. Well, he has a new TV show pilot called “History Hackers” that airs this Friday on the History Channel. I really hope the show gets picked up. These are the kinds of shows that I want to see on the TV.
Here is a little teaser of the show.
If you like the show Bre has a list of things you can do to help make the pilot a TV show. It will be great if it happens.
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My Phone Rings
I totally agree with the xkcd comic today. I hate annoying ringtones. When you call my phone, it makes a “ringing” sound.
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Palin’s Email
So the internet was all a buzz yesterday about Sarah Palin’s email getting hacked, if you can call it that. I wouldn’t take much of a hacker to get into her email if she used easy to find information for the password reset questions. Pretty much every web based email system has a way to reset your password. You just have to answer a couple questions that most people wouldn’t know, but if you are a public figure, you should realize that people are going to know more about you. This has happened many times to celebrities. You would think people would learn.
The bigger question should be what the hell is she using Yahoo for government emails? Why have that data on Yahoo’s servers? Shouldn’t she use government servers, and better yet some encryption? What if she had some “top secret” stuff in her email? A “real” hacker/terrorist, could have probably gotten access to her email without anybody finding out and kept on reading it.
Government officials really need to know that sending an unencrypted email is like sending a postcard. Hopefully this minor little mishap will teach them all that they need to be a little more secure.
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Salsa Weekend
Back when we lived in the mobile home we had a garden in our back yard. It was kinda fun growing stuff, and getting awesome fresh vegetables in the fall. We didn’t bother planting it during the year in a half it took to sell it, and we haven’t planted a garden at our house yet. We probably won’t. We got enough room in the back yard, but the way that it’s landscaped, we don’t really have a good spot for a garden.
So three years without a garden means we ran out of salsa. After eating homemade salsa for so many years, I can’t stand any of the store boughten crap. I love salsa. I need salsa.
Yesterday we went to a local farmers market and put in an order for 25 pounds of tomatoes, so this weekend will be a salsa making weekend. I can’t wait to taste some good salsa again.
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New Tegan And Sara Video
Tegan and Sara have a new video from their 2007 album The Con. I kinda like it.
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Made Me lol
I love left-handed Toons. If you follow my tumblelog you would know. I bet I link to them every week. I probably don’t mention my tumblelog enough. It has all my shared links and good stuff that I find interesting, but don’t feel like blogging about… anyway, here is today’s Left-handed Toon.
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Rare Blog About Work
I hate when people complain that they don’t blog enough, so I won’t do that. I feel like I have been in a little rut lately. My mind is full of things I want to blog about, but when I sit down at my computer I get sucked into reading my feeds, and watching and listening to all my podcasts, and I never remember what I was going to blog about. Today I didn’t forget. I worked all day so it’s a rare blog about work.
Today was a busy ass day at work. One of our chemical feed systems broke down and had to be cleaned in order to be fixed. It took me a couple hours to clean it, which then makes a mess of the floor so you have to clean that too. I got it all cleaned up, then the mechanics fixed it and left a big mess on the floor. It pisses me off when people don’t clean up after themselves. It only took me ten minutes to clean up after them, but still, I hate leaning up after people.
So that’s what was on my mind today. Not much, but hey, at least it was something.