Archive for September, 2007

Fall 2007 TV Season Premieres

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Reviews

Like most Amer­i­cans I’ve been a bit more glued to my TV this week than usual due to the return of fresh pro­gram­ming for the fall. Here are a few quick impres­sions of the shows I watched this week. Mon­day Chuck: The producers/advertisers of this show are obvi­ously tar­get­ing some­thing very close to my demo­graphic with […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 28, 2007

Library Renovations

Posted by Mark | Filed under Quickie, Site News, Web Design

In the event you notice any irreg­u­lar­i­ties with this site, par­tic­u­larly the library sec­tion do not be alarmed. I am cur­rently ren­o­vat­ing that por­tion of the site.

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Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 25, 2007

Thank you LifeHacker!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Today I was read­ing an arti­cle over at Life­Hacker about XBMC. Basi­cally, they rec­om­mended upgrad­ing from the last, ancient sta­ble ver­sion to the lat­est SVN build; which I did this evening and boy am I ever glad I did. As now, I can play Matroska video files. Wheee! True, I tech­ni­cally could before but they […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 24, 2007

Escape Pod, for shame!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Reviews

As a gen­eral rule, I love Escape Pod. The sto­ries (and read­ers!) tend to be excel­lent, how­ever this week must be the excep­tion which proves the rule. Maybe it’s because I never got into the whole MMORPG thing but I found this week’s story to be a bad rewrite/adaption of Ground­hog Day. The movie wasn’t […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 21, 2007

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth.…

Posted by Mark | Filed under Humor, Quickie

The “geek” shall inherit the Earth.… because nobody else is will­ing to sup­port that ancient hardware.

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Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 19, 2007

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