Super Insanity Incarnate
Tis the season... for all nighters and insane dead lines. Work is on it's big push for the end of the year. I have a whole lot going on for the next several weeks. Life has just gone a little nuts in general for the last few weeks. When I finally get home I'm usually too tired to do much. So I really haven't updated in a while.
Dezi and I wrapped up our dance lessons last week. They were originally a Christmas present to her that we've just kept at for the last several months... but when they became more of a financial burden they really lost their luster. At least in my eyes. I'm sure Dezi would like to continue, but I she didn't want to take the lessons any more if I wasn't enjoying myself too. I'm really glad we took the lessons and I'll miss going. I especially enjoyed our instructor James. After a slow start, I really grew to like him.
I think I may have posted here before that one of the projects I really wanted to work on was to get a Linux PVR system up and running. I had spent a lot of time and money on the project. Probably for the last 9 months or so. Fiddling with it here and there as I had time. Well... about a month ago I got an extra performance bonus so I decided to splurge it on myself. I bought some hardware that was recommended by some of the websites I found. I decided to purchase the Hauppauge WinTV 350 and a cheap DVD R. When I got the software in, I saw that Happauge recommended some software called SageTV. I wasn't quite ready to rebuild my Linux machine, but I wanted to play with my new toy so I installed the card in a Windows 2000 box and downloaded the 30 day trial of Sage TV. I was very impressed with the software and very pleased with how clear and easily the WinTV worked to record and play shows.
I finally got around to trying to install MythTV on my Linux box. I got past installing the updates, downloading the files, and into trying to install/configure the drivers for the capture card when I decided it wasn't worth all that time and effort when I already had something that worked perfectly well. I swapped the cards, bought the software, and am quite content with the results. Next thing I want to do is move the PVR to something like this and have a complete home theatre system for the living room. But since I'm back to trying to being frugal, it may be a little while.
