Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Good While It Lasted

Hulu has caved into pres­sure from their con­tent providers and changed their ser­vice so it will no longer work with Boxee. Unfor­tu­nately this also broke the XBMC-Hulu plu­gin. Our con­tent providers requested that we turn off access to our con­tent via the Boxee prod­uct, and we are respect­ing their wishes. From the Doing hard things […]

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Valentine’s Day

Been a bit dis­tracted, so I haven’t writ­ten up my thoughts on this year’s Valentine’s Day. So here goes. My wife and I got dressed up all fancy. Me in my kilt and my wife in a fancy, new dress. She looked stun­ning. I was her barely tol­er­a­ble din­ing com­pan­ion. We ate for our first time […]

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I Hate Plumbing

With apolo­gies to Cole Porter… I hate plumb­ing in the spring time, I hate plumb­ing in the fall, I hate plumb­ing in the win­ter, when it driz­zles, I hate plum­ing in the sum­mer, when it siz­zles. I hate plumb­ing every moment, Every moment of the year, I hate plumb­ing, Why, oh why, do I hate […]

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Hot Time on the Town

While I do love the views and gen­eral atmos­phere of the office we moved into, the room gets really bleep­ing cold. Cold enough that some days, such as today, my hands are halfway numb by the time I leave at the end of the day. So tonight when I got home, I grabbed a book, […]

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XBMC + Hulu = GOLD!

I’ve been home sick today and when not sleep­ing I’ve been work­ing to upgrade the ver­sion of XBMC I have installed on my soft­mod­ded XBox.  I had been run­ning the last sta­ble release, but run­ning into the occa­sional prob­lem.  First off I’ll note that Nau­tilus 2.22.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.04.1, does a crappy job of working […]

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