Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Decision Made

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I broke down finally. I succumbed to the shame Strokker applied so harshly to me this past weekend. “We can’t watch movies?” he said. “You don’t have a DVD player?” he said.
Problem solved. Thats it though. Time to tighten up. No more big ticket items for many months.  I slipped when I sold some things [...]

ANWR

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

A cool post about ANWR and drilling for oil.
Porter County Politics

Can’t Sleep

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I can’t sleep so I’ve been doing maintenance. We are now running Wordpress 2.6 and I fully backed everything up just in case. It looks the same but with a few more features I think I’ll never use.
Also found this gem over at Make Use Of

The Eye of Sauron

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.

SD vs BluRay

Friday, August 1st, 2008

See more funny videos at Funny or Die
Now I know why Dirt waited in line to get a PS3.

NFL Live Streaming Games

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Its the wave of the future. First game streamed online for free will be Skins vs Giants Sept 4.
From Ars

Just In Time For Football

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

No more OTA antennae for me! DirecTV is adding HD locals for my city.
Take that in the butt Comcast.

Network & Streaming

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

My DirecTV HD-DVR will stream movies if hooked up to a network (wired.) Since my DVD player died in the move to the new crib, I’ve been looking to just network the DVR and stream my content instead of buying another DVD player. Also, the roommate has been begging for a way to network the [...]

Audio Codecs Explained

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Gizmodo explains the details of all the different audio codecs involved in home theater systems.

New Phone

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I had to get a new cell phone because my backup tracphone broke on me. Verizon has me by the balls now. Anyhow, I had my house # moved to my new cell phone. Just so you know.
That old cell #, don’t worry about that little guy.