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Comcast DVR Coming Soon (to my place)

Ah yeah, no Tivo with IR blaster for me. Comcast is finally offering a DVR based on MS technology (this one, I believe http://broadband.motorola.com/dvr/ ) and we're getting it Saturday. Sweet. Yes, my wife is already sad to know there will soon be a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:22 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Revenge of the Sith teaser trailer

via Calacanis' weblog : The Episode III teaser trailer. Looks sweet. I'm starting to get excited for this. Incidentally, we took our six month old to Toys 'R Us today. As I was showing him various toys, his biggest positive reaction came when I showed Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 6:39 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Random Election Thought

"Exit poll" is the new "hanging chad". Too many pundits talking about exit polls, geez. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:06 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Scientists seek to create 'three-parent' babies

via Kurzweil and NewScientist.com : Scientists in the UK are applying for a licence to create human embryos with three genetic parents. The aim is ultimately to prevent children from inheriting genetic diseases caused by mutations in DNA housed by their Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:42 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Ann Coulter Hit by Pie

By way of Joi Ito I find that conservative columnist Ann Coulter was hit by a pie during a speech. Funny, yes. Worth being arrested? Doubt it. (Aside: is it pronounced like "joy" or "joey"?) Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:15 PM by Tosh Meston | 2 Comments
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Pattern Recognition, a movie?

William Gibson mentions in his blog that there is a possibility that Pattern Recognition will be turned into a film. Cool news for the fans. Pattern Recognition is set in post nine eleven days so no silver-screen Molly Millions. Enjoyable nonetheless. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:45 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Falling off this thing called blog...

I have really fallen off blogging lately. I think I'll probably be migrating to my own server and cross-posting technical pieces here in the near future if I can find time to put some kind of UI together. Unfortunately I haven't found the time to do things Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2004 1:10 AM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Offended by a Robot

One of the sites I run on my home web server is my baby photoblog for my friends and relatives. I built it during the fantastic paternal leave Microsoft gives its employees (one month off at full pay!), and I am still actually really into it. I recently Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:09 PM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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First Impressions on VoIP

K and I signed up for AT&T CallVantage voice over IP at our place and last week the D-Link DVG-1120M telephone adapter (TA) arrived. I spent some of the weekend integrating the thing into my home network. I run a Linksys wireless access point / router Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:17 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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Reasons Why You Should Not Introduce Your Parents to IM

They will ask you every time you change your display name. -- “What does ‘t-money’ mean?” They will talk to you every time you sign into your computer. They likely only have you and one or two others on their contact list so a toast saying you just signed Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:54 PM by Tosh Meston | 6 Comments
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To elaborate...

...on why Engadget is on the short "can't live without this website" list. Here are a couple post from today: News on Tivo & NetFlix teaming up to deliver your 3 movies at a time directly over the net. Awesome. Also, a How-To on turning your old Nintendo Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:07 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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Web Sites I Can't Live Without

Scott Mitchell asks on his blog what are the sites you can't live without. Here's mine: Outlook Web Access - my e-mail Google CNN / MSNBC / BBC News (I am a kind of a news junkie) Gizmodo / Engadget NBA.com Baby photo sites of my kid and my niece For Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 05, 2004 5:13 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Sink on the Micro-ISV

Eric Sink has a new Business of Software on the Micro-ISV (one person ISV) and is running a micro-ISV experiment to sell a winnable solitaire program. Eric says he will disclosure sales figures in future blog entries or columns. Should be interesting. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:14 PM by Tosh Meston | 3 Comments
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Totoro

We watched Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro last night. It's a story of two young girls with a hospitalized mother and a working father who move to a new neighborhood and discover the gigantic Totoro living under a nearby tree. Don't know how to explain Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:28 PM by Tosh Meston | 4 Comments
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"What's on Your USB Keychain?"

In the spirit of Apple's old "What's on your PowerBook?" ads or even Gizmodo's "What's in your Gadget Bag?, I ask you what's on your USB drive keychain. Having just popped mine in after some months, I am surprised to find: a C# source file to screen scrape Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 15, 2004 1:44 PM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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