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Still no HDTV capture

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I don’t really know how this is going to play out, but it’s obvious that the world is slowly moving to HDTV, and it’s also obvious that keeping people from recording HDTV is a goal of the content producers. Boxes that output HDTV won’t output an unencrypted digital signal, so there’s no support in something […]

JASJAR, Syncing through Bluetooth

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

I picked up a bluetooth adapter, and configured the PDA to sync through Bluetooth. This works realy well – when I get to work, I don’t have to plug the device into anything, I just open it up, and in ActiveSync, click on “Sync via Bluetooth”. An improvement would be for it to sync without […]

Amazon.com Web Services Contest

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Amazon’s looking for folks to participate in a contest to see who can make the best use of their web service. Check it out.

Serenity

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Serenity is out this weekend. I never saw the series, but I’ve heard so much about it, and about the movie, that I really want to see it. How’s that for buzz.

iTunes for Windows Mobile

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Wow, I never expected something like iTunes for Windows Mobile. Just last night I was trying to figure out how to sync some songs onto my JASJAR with Windows Media Player even though my music library lives in iTunes.

PDF Events

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Watch some events fire…

Expression Interactive Designer is an all-.NET app

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

This makes me want to play with it more than anything else. There are very few large scale all-.NET apps, so one from Microsoft is worth taking a look at.

PDC Pics

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Here are some of the pictures I took at the PDC.

Home Again

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

We just spent a few days in Disneyland, and Disney has this technique that they use in a number of rides to invoke a sense of unease, to make you think that something bad could happen at any minute. The power flickers on and off. The balky generator at the Indiana Jones ride. The spooky […]

Hotels without Internet Access

Monday, September 19th, 2005

I’m in a hotel without Internet access. No sir, I don’t like it. I’ll be back home (and online) Thursday.