Ok, I’m late to the game on this one (several blogs I wanted to purchase shares in are have none available to trade), but I’m having fun with Blogshares anyway. Besides isn’t it more important to trade imaginary shares in weblogs than do something like filing my 2002 tax return (I guess that’s my project for the rest of the day).
Monthly Archive for April, 2003
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Over the past week I’ve added to this blog:
I purchased some green Jamaica Blue Mountain beans from Sweet Maria’s in January. I roasted up a few ounces yesterday and brewed them up this morning — wow this stuff is really good, expensive but good. At the price per pound this is not the kind of stuff I’d brew every morning, but I might break it out next time I have company over.
While preparing a meal last night I grabbed a very hot pan. I’ve got a few blisters (around 1 inch in diameter) in several places on my left hand. I guess guitar playing is out for the next few weeks (the neighbors will be happy).
Apple teased us this morning by showing the Update CD as an item available for purchase from the Apple Store. They’ve finally made the 39.9MB update available via the software update mechanism. I recommend however downloading the Combo Update (which weighs in at 81.9MB) if you’re bandwidth can handle it. The Combo updates seem to have fewer post installation issues than the incremental ones.
Somehow I missed that it’s now possible to extract video from a TiVo with Mac OS X. Unfortunately it only works with TiVo Series 1 units, and I’ve got a Series 2.
In other TiVo news, TiVo today introduced TiVo Desktop. This application allows your TiVo to become part of your Home LAN (wired or wireless) and perform Remote Scheduling, Digital Music & Photos (from your networked Mac) and Multi-Room Viewing. It does not allow you to extract Video from your TiVo to your Mac. This really significant part of this release is that the Mac (OS X) version of the software is being simultaneously released with the Windows version. Thanks to technologies like Rendezvous, Apple is right there on this one.
Cocktail provides many useful utilities in a small easy to run package for users of Mac OS X 10.2.2 and up. Even novice users can’t really hurt their system by poking around its multi-tabbed interface. Did I forget mention that it’s absolutley free?