Previously on “You can imagine where it goes from here”: We released a script to download stuff from the tivo, and then made some improvements to it.
After two years of saying I was going to fully automate the process of downloading and transcoding shows for my iPhone, I finally got off my ass and did [...]
Author Archives: Keith Garner
TiVo -> Video Podcast
3/4/2010 – 11:15 pm
Today IS pretty cool…
11/10/2009 – 10:55 am
Rob McCool said the following quote on a UIUC alumni mailing list we’re both on:
Actually, all things considered, right now is pretty awesome. You can buy a device for about $200 which has more floating point computing power than a Cray did in 1972 and carry it around in your pocket. Its battery can store [...]
Book review: Dead Until Dark
11/7/2009 – 2:34 pm
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
After thoroughly enjoying the HBO series True Blood for two seasons I decieded to give the Sookie Stackhouse books a try. (This worked well for me in reading Kathy Reich’s Temperance Brennan books after watching Bones.)
The first season of the show is incredibly faithful [...]
In defense of the AppleTV
11/2/2009 – 2:21 pm
Last week the 3.0 software update for the AppleTV came out. On-line there was a lot of grousing about it, and that has inspired this post.
The Roku SoundBridge that we had in the family room was taken out by Thor. We didn’t realize how much we liked having a digital music player there until it [...]
206 Bones
10/4/2009 – 9:30 am
I’ve been neglecting the blog of late. I haven’t really had much to say that the 140 characters of Twitter hasn’t taken care of. However, since I took the time to write a book review on GoodReads, I thought I’d share it here too.
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
My rating: 4 of 5 [...]
Build libcurl as a universal binary
8/27/2009 – 12:38 pm
I release one of the projects from work as a universal binary on OS X. Up until tomorrow that mean just i386 and ppc. With snow leopard, it looks like it’ll be a good idea to support the 64-bit architectures as well, especially considering its an ODBC driver I’m working on and the native apps [...]
LOAD “:*”,8,1 (yes, I know I’ve used this title before…)
7/29/2009 – 8:27 am
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brian Bagnall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Some of the reviews I read of this book lead me to believe it would be more focused on the business side than the technology side. I was presently surprised that I felt it was 70% [...]
iTunes keeps syncing the same 44 songs OVER and OVER: SOLVED!
7/15/2009 – 8:50 am
Right as OS 3.0 came out iTunesfor the iPhone and just after the latest version of iTunes was release a problem sprung up for me. Without making any changes to any of my music files, iTunes would resync the same 44 songs to the iPhone on every sync. I finally had some time to track [...]
Direct plugin auto-update on Wordpress 2.8
6/13/2009 – 9:11 am
I get a lot of traffic on the site due to my post on getting direct (non-FTP) updates to work on Wordpress 2.5. This method worked up until 2.7.x. With 2.8 out this week, I found during my svn switch a conflict was created due to a code change in file.php. Looking at the changes, [...]
