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I'm thinking that I should look around for a site that lists the fall TV schedule (with the date of the first show) so that I can get my TiVo set up. Does such a site exist?

A few new shows interested me, from the promos, and I'll keep recording a few classics. I'll supply my full list later, but for now, I'm just gonna look for the whole list. TVGuide.com? We'll see…

Update: This grid or that grid will work just fine.

Question: Which Wikipedia entry do you think is the lamest?

My Answer: I'm definitely going to have to go with the entry on "floaters."

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The Touareg is now licensed. It's got my "IACAS" plates and Carey is awaiting her "IAEJB" plates for the Aztek. It was cheaper to transfer IACAS to the VW and order new plates for the Aztek than to order new plates for the VW and switch them when they arrived. Cheaper by about $80.

Sales tax on the Touareg has been paid as well. I've gotta get the car inspected in the next 10 days or so, but will be easy - it's brand new.

It's not yet 10 p.m., but Gruber is drunk:

AQUA: Howdya fuckin' like it now, bee-yotch? WHOO HOO!
BRUSHED METAL: Fuck you, Aqua.
AQUA: WHOOO!

Heh heh. Oh, we Mac users…

Which iPod Nano - black or white - do you think Kanye West would buy? George Bush? 😀

So today I'm watching the Steve Jobs presentation of the ROKR et al. and at 18:30 or so, a phone starts ringing. Thinking I'd left my phone in the bedroom (25 feet away or so), I jump up and sprint to the bedroom.

I come back and my phone is sitting two feet from me on my desk, and I replay the video only to realize I hadn't been paying attention enough to know that Steve was about to announce the ROKR.

Duh. 😛

Question: Do you think that Firewire is dead?

My Answer: No. Digital video means too much to Apple. The nano lacks Firewire to keep the size - and price - down, and USB 2.0 is available on just about every Mac of the past, what, four or five years? So I'm not gonna agree with that drunk guy…

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Rock Star works with iTunes 5. I just tried it. I haven't played Rock Star in weeks! It's still fun!

Question: What do you think of the ROKR? iTunes 5? The iPod Nano?

My Answer: I personally don't care about the ROKR (don't have Cingular), iTunes 5 I've yet to install (doing so now), and the iPod Nano is what it is. What I am most interested in is actually this page, the "iPod Your Car" page. It lists VW as "Coming Soon" (with just about every other damn car). When is soon? In two weeks? Two months? Ten months? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

Update: Woohoo! Looks like I'll be able to buy an official adapter for $148. I may be returning the Dension ice>Link I have now.

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The North East High School golf team ventured to Erie Golf Course yesterday to play a match against Central. They lost, but that's not what I care to talk about here.

Erie Golf Course is a whopping 1.5 miles from my house, and 1 mile of that is the windy road you take to get to it. Erie Golf Course has a tiny putting green and no driving range, making it far from an effective practice course for me. I last played Erie over a decade ago in an EDGA event held the Monday Ernie Els defeated Colin Montgomerie and Loren Roberts in a U.S. Open playoff (1994). I remember that the course was a crapshoot built on hills and that some of the fairways were tilted 30° or so.

Erie Golf Course has seen a "major renovation" this year and the word on the street was that the course was "in great shape." I was told by several that "it'll be really nice" now. As one of Erie's three municipal courses (Downing and J.C. Martin being the others), I was looking forward to having a decent course so close. Well, it simply ain't to be: Erie Golf Course is still a dog track.

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I've heard good things about the Logitech line of universal remotes, and the 520 caught my eye. Carey and I currently have, oh, four remotes we use regularly (TV, TiVo, Receiver, DVD Player). All but the TiVo are Sony remotes, so there is some overlap, and the TiVo I programmed to power on both the receiver and the TV… but it may be nice to have all of the functionality in one place, particularly if it's truly universal.

Clearly a remote like this would handle the TV and whatnot, but I'm not so sure it can handle the TiVo stuff - record, switch channels, etc. The TiVo remote gets around 80% of the use in the house, so this would be a waste of a hundred bucks if the thing couldn't handle some of the TiVo things like "record" and "select," "skip," "replay," "ffwd/rewind," etc.

Question: If you were coaching kids in a sport, what's the most important thing you could hope to teach them?

My Answer: A game is a game. Play well, but if you don't, well, it's just a game.

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Photon is now open source. I've written about Photon several times. Like here, and here, and here, and, lastly, here.

In the last entry, when Photon was made free, I suggested that one of two things was likely to be happening:

1. That a significant upddate (which I was told a month or two ago was in development) is coming out soon.
2. That work has been stopped entirely, and Photon is now a dead product.

I'm sad to report that the promised update never surfaced and that Photon is now, for the most part, dead. Make no mistake - it still works - but I wouldn't peg it for a major update anytime soon.

I guess that was the end of the line for them. When looking for the crash QotD on my own blog for the previous post, I found this old post about Bleu Rose and their "public notice" to the Mac community that they were going to stop developing for the Mac.

Seems they actually stopped developing altogether. Their website hasn't been updated since late 2004.

Leave it to Unsanity. Earlier this year I mentioned in a QotD that I was "still hoping Apple provides a way for an application to provide contact information for the developer so that we, not frickin' Apple, get the crash reports."

Now we can, with Smart Crash Reports. Of course, SCR is not ideal as users have to go install it - it's clearly not an Apple-provided solution - but for beta tests, it should ease the transition, and some users who are, well, the geekier users will likely have it installed. I know I've hesitated to send in crash reports because I had to copy the crash data, go to the developer's site, find their email address, and send them the info. SCR will not help everyone, but it will help the lazy geek.

Update: Links fixed. Thanks Jesper.