Posts Tagged ‘tv’

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 post on […]

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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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Fall 2007 TV Season Premieres

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 this […]

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Heroes Season Finale

WTF?!?!?  I’ve watched all 22 prior episodes for that <abbr title=“Piece Of Shit”>POS</abbr>?  Seri­ously, NBC what were you think­ing?  You spent 22 episodes build­ing up the con­fronta­tion between Peter and Sylar into a dooms­day bat­tle royale where the fate of the world or more acturately, the fate of the poor saps liv­ing in New York […]

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NBC’s Treasure Hunters: Finale

Dang nab­bit! I was not picked for the final 10 and I didn’t win bump­kiss in the game. Ah well, maybe they’ll have another sea­son of the game and I’ll do bet­ter then. Since my last entry about TH I received a cou­ple more ques­tions. Addi­tion­ally as the game is over […]

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