BurningbirdLike it says, just stuff.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The premise sounds good: rather than subscribe to a cable or other video service, access movies and television shows via the internet using either our computers, or specialized set top boxes. I bought into the concept when early last year I purchased an AppleTV, followed up by purchases of not […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A favorite game with Roku owners is to guess which service will be added to the box, first. The game is now over, because evidently, Amazon’s Video On Demand is going to be the next video entry for the Roku boxes. This puts the box on par with AppleTV in offerings. Well, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Roku started its rollout of HD content to Netflix Box owners beginning today. I’ve been a latecomer beta tester, and am generally happy with the quality of the stream I’m getting. Only about 100 movies are HD at this time. Many of the shows provided by CBS, including Star Trek the first […]
Not sure what to wear this coming Friday? Here are my suggestions for Halloween party costumes, based on stories flying around the technology weblogs this week: Dress all in black, with a long white, butcher paper strip wrapped around you with with a URL in big bold letters. When asked, tell people you’re a namespace. […]
The economy is all over the place today, and a lot of people are uncertain and more than a little worried. Now is the time to take deep breaths, not over-react, or look for the nearest tall building from which to jump. Good, commonsense discussions about what all of this means can be found among […]