July 2003

ISPs strike back: Pac Bell Internet arm sues RIAA From today's New York Times:

A California-based Internet service provider jumped into the contentious music-downloading fray late Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the recording industry and questioning the constitutionality of the industry's effort to track down online music sharers. Pacific Bell Internet Services, based in…

Snapstream

Snapstream seems to be working pretty well. I am able to log into my HA server web pages, add a recording, and it is sending the request to the remote machine which has my TV tuner installed. Working fine. I…

PVR software

I've been messing around with the newest version of Snapstream PVR, trying to integrate it into my home automation system, and it looks pretty promising. Will post more one I have had a chance to play with it a bit….

DesktopX (Blatant plug)

If you have never checked it out, go on over to Stardock's website and check out DesktopX, or just buy it here. Here's a little blurb about it from their website: "DesktopX is a revolutionary program that allows users to…

Weapons of Mass Destruction…

….or, more stupid search engine tricks. Go to Google and type in "Weapons of Mass Destruction", click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Look at the 404 page not found very closely. Think I might just have to put…

Training classes

Arrived home from the training class yesterday about 7pm or so. It was interesting, but I sure did hate having to go. Missed everyone. Ended up doing pretty well. Should be back in a unit within the next seven…

Driver testing?

Saw this headline over at ABC news earlier: The elderly man who plowed his car through an outdoor market and killed 10 people made his first public comment Sunday, saying, "My heart is broken over the extent of the tragedy."…

We're off to see the wizard

Stephanie and the kids arrived home safely this afternoon. It was pretty nice to see them. Christopher worked very hard over the last two week and took us all to Applebees for dinner tonight. That was kind of cool….

New look

Found a template that I really like, kind of fits with my mood. There are some ares that I still need to work on and fix, but otherwise it looks alright….

A day late

The ended up leaving a day later than expected, but have gotten there safely. The only sucky part is that they get back in town Sunday evening, and I have to leave town for four days on Monday for training…