Monthly Archives: October 2008
playstation steve
Here’s one post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. Because of the firmware updates that just came out yesterday, it kinda poked me to get around to it. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it, but I … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment, Hardware
clarification
In my last post about my new cell phone, I made this comment, which at the time seemed like some people would find hard to swallow considering my geekiness: “I’m a really slow adopter to new technologies, believe it or … Continue reading
new phone
The Blackberry Pearl Flip came out today, so I ran out to the store and got me one. Initial reaction — meh. It’s nice, but I don’t like trackballs all that much. I kinda prefer my RAZR where I can … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
weekend multimedia notes, part two
Well, I had fun last weekend writing up just general notes about multimedia stuff I was playing with, so I think I’ll have a go at it again. For some reason, this weekend, I got it in my head that … Continue reading
Filed under Multimedia
trailers, trailers, trailers
I’ve spent a lot of last month cleaning up a few tweaks, bugs, and to do items on getting my media center completely setup, and one of the things on the list was to get movie trailers ripped off of … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment
pimp my mythvideo: coverfiles made simple
his being my third patch to fix some mythvideo nags, I’m actually starting to get comfortable going in there and trying to find this stuff. It’s still incredibly difficult to try and figure this out, since there’s little documentation and … Continue reading
general conference weekend
My church’s general conference (a huge weekend of meetings where all our church leaders are gathered and speak to the entire worldwide congregation) was this weekend, and it was pretty good. I started off really strong, looking forward to it … Continue reading
Filed under Religion
weekend multimedia notes
I’ve been spending part of the weekend working out small annoyances in my myth setup, trying to get it inching closer to my “perfect” setup. I’m actually really close now, minor stuff is all that’s left. Here’s a few things … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, MPlayer, MythTV
planet larry google search
Planet Larry has kept archives of posts for about five months now, but I just barely added a Google search form to the side nav so you can … uh, search. It would be nice to have the archived pages … Continue reading
Filed under Planet Larry
playlist resume
I wrote about this a little bit a while back, wrt mplayer-resume, that I wanted to work on a way to resume playback from a playlist as well using MPlayer. Well, I finally sat down and figured it out last … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia, MythTV
