Was it THX or Dolby that first started running those short promotional clips before the movie started touting how incredible the sound system is? “The audience is listening” is my memory of one of the tag lines. (Per Google, it’s THX.) I still think my audience can be counted on two hands, but there’s at…

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The adventure continues. Thanks to Comcast (no thanks), we’re back to 13 channels. So much for the Rugby World Cup and beyond. Too ridiculous a tale to tell right now… we’ll see if we have signal in the morning.

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Dave Winer of UserLand created MailToTheFuture.com in 1998. Just something he did on a lark, seemingly, where you could set up an email to send to yourself (or others) in the future. I used it a few times to send myself an email as a reminder for a dentist appointment or small things like that.…

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All the channels beyond basic cable went kaput sometime on Thursday. I was running around during the interim, noticed the problem yesterday, but really had time to deal with it today. FYI, the TiVo provided the evidence of when the problem started, because a Premier League football match was recorded at 1am Thursday, but the…

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I bought my second copy of Omni Outliner at the end of last week, for the desktop. I’ve gotten hooked on the PowerBook, where it came installed, and decided that the endless To Do list in my head needed to be more tangible. Decided is a cover-up for a longer discussion, but let’s leave it…

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Fun, small wedding yesterday and Friday night. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and we all rightfully celebrated ‘his Edness.’ If you know him, you know. A great side-benefit was dinner with another college roommate, Kristan, whom I haven’t seen since visiting Boston to run the Marathon in April 2001. He’s doing well, and I…

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(I’d like to put down more than these mundanities, but wanted to close the door on this topic, for now.) Earlier this week, I learned from the TiVo Community Forum that the lack of support for the 2.8 version of the Linksys USB wireless adapter in the TiVo software was the problem. TiVo wouldn’t recognize…

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On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, atrabilious was the word of the day from Dictionary.com. I’ve been saving that email ever since. The email gives two definitions. Melancholic; gloomy. Irritable; ill-natured; peevish. I’m rarely melancholic, but a lack of sleep/time sure makes me peevish. Peevish is a good word to say, sort of like moussaka… just…

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I stayed up late last night polishing off the final pages of Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. I didn’t read Bridget Jones’ Diary, but I wonder if it was similar. Very real, very up-to-date, but still fictional… this book felt very timely to me, as a parent of two kids. Basic…

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Since the California law that goes into effect on January 1, 2004 won’t slow down the international spammers, I was glad to find another low-tech way to slow the harvesting of email addresses. Vin Crosbie pointed out this handy tip for encoding an email address in a way that web browsers will work, but the…

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