Archive for the ‘entertainment’ Category

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

This Christmas was filled with all sorts of delights. From good times with family and friends to new XBox 360s, bikes, TVs and laptops. After dealing with the agonizingly inconsistent behavior of our Sony KP-51HW40 for over a year, we finally decided to replace it with a Samsung ...

XBox 360 is Music to Your Ears

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I’ve been running Firefly Mediaserver 2.4 (formerly mt-daapd) and Twonky Musicserver 2.8 for some time now in my home to stream music from my single audio repository to iTunes and my Netgear MP101 players. This past week we picked up an XBox 360 and wanted to take advantage of ...

A Movie Darkly

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

If you’ve read the book, you’ll want to see the movie. In fact, you can see the first 24 minutes of the movie here to get a taste of the surreal feel they use to enhance the story. The innovative “animation” style has spawned a series of articles ...