Month: February 2005

  • Waving the Flag

    As I’m sure you are aware the FCC is mandating that all new TV receivers process a Broadcast flag starting on July 1, 2005 (just 3 days before Independence day). Why should you care? The broadcast flag, as a side-effect, limits what you can or can’t record, or if interpreted “nicely” will let you record…

  • To Hell and Back

    If you haven’t seen the movie Constantine, I highly recommend it. After being let down by several comic based movies recently, it was nice to see one that proved to be fun and have a plot. It was something that I haven’t quite gotten since the Spiderman movies … mind you it is not as…

  • A very weird one

    I had an extremely weird dream last night. It did have a neat setting setting: Victorian England. And did seem to have a pretty good “soundtrack” a la Gladiator. But a few words of advice to those of you out there : – Don’t extensively read CNN before going to bed. – Don’t watch German…

  • Which Website are you?

    Just took the “Which website are you?” quiz. And I got the following : Which Website are You? If its a slow day, or need a diversion while trying to think of ways to make an algorithm nicer without resorting to maintenance unfriendly nested if … else clauses you might as well go take a…