Colin’s Blog

Just did a quick update to this site. I added a section on the left colum with links to my social network profiles so you can find me on them if you wish.

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so like I just realized I haven’t posted anything here in ages. Partly because I’m just pure lazy and also the fact that I’m now extremely hooked on twitter and would rather post little 145 character or less messages. Anyways not much to say again other then the fact that I’ve really been  getting into [...]

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yeah thats right welcome to my new blog…well actualy its not new as I just decided it was time to upgrade and to start over from scratch as my backend database was getting pretty fouled up and outdated. That also means that for the meantime my site will be a bit hosed and missing things. [...]

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I Just downloaded a really cool piece of software called Mars Edit 2. It allows me to post to my blog directly from software on my computer instead of having to login to word press and go through the admin panel all the time making it much easier to post blogs here
I’m hopeful to [...]

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I just came up with an interesting thought after hearing that you can stream online video live with a nokia 95n and looking at the dock connector for the touch thinking it would be cool to be able to do on the touch/iphone.
It seems like if the touch/iphone ever got flash support in safari it [...]

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I ordered a 16gb ipod touch last night and I am both excited and nervous about it. This will be my first ipod too btw as before I had always used creative’s stuff. I’m nervious however because I’m scared now that i bought it apple might turn around and update it a month or so [...]

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We had a major windstorm last night! Scenes like this were common all over the region.

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this might be anouther option for an htpc. The amd processor is suposedly the best choice for that however all the motherboards that seem to be available have ati video built into them which doesnt work well in linux. Not good for me since I will be runing mythtv on ubuntu.
GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H Micro ATX [...]

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I have decided to build my own HTPC box running Mythtv on top of Linux. Most likely I will be either using the Mythbuntu distro or a custom install atop of Ubuntu or Debian.
To Give you an idea of what MythTV looks like here are a few screenshots:
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So Recently I have been thinking it would be cool to have a DVR box in my room for recording shows off tv. First I began looking at what in terms of retail DVR boxes and let me tell you there is not much. Currently the options are basically a Comcast DVR for $12/m, A [...]

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