I don’t take a lot of vacations, but every now and then I like to get out town, in order to do a little bit of gambling Every time I go to Vegas, Reno or Tahoe, I try to stay at a different casino, so I never really know what to expect. Some of the [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Davis
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I don’t like to think about it, but the death of my PC, could have ended much more tragically. When I first woke up and thought that I had lost all of my data, I went through all 5 stages of grief. At first, I tried to deny that there was a problem, then I [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Davis
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Every now and then, a study will be released suggesting that DVR owners don’t actually skip very many ads. While I can understand why people would want to watch certain programs live, it’s always hard for me to take this kind of data seriously, because it tracks so differently, from my own DVR experience. I [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Davis
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It’s probably still too early to be thinking about winter, but I couldn’t resist posting a link to this strange little bunny game that I found online. The game play is pretty minimalistic, but I found its soothing music to be a nice alternative over most of the shoot em up games that I find. [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Video Games | 2 Comments »
If you’ve ever called up your bank or credit card company, you know that most financial institutions tend to stick with the same old boring account verification questions. There may have been a time, when your mother’s maiden name was enough to protect you against identity theft, but in today’s information society, this is no [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Davis
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Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Music, VOD | 2 Comments »
Recently, I suffered a computer meltdown and the good news is that I still have my data, but the bad news is that it’s cheaper to replace the PC, then it is to fix it. Since I was already in the market for a laptop, I decided to purchase one, while I took the time [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, DivX, Media, Microsoft, Netflix, Slingbox, TV, Technology, TiVo, VOD, Video Games, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »
TiVo released a video of their HD start up animation online and I think it’s really creative. I haven’t seen this show up on my series 3 yet, so it makes me wonder if this is what people are seeing when they boot up the new HD TiVo? I like how they were able to [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Davis
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TiVo latest hook up with Pay Per Post is beginning to look less like a relationship and more like a one night stand, after the company responded to criticism of the program, by asking “postees” to pull the TiVo ads off of YouTube. In fairness to TiVo, there is evidence to suggest, that they had [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Davis
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