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|Jodi| is still blogging our adoption process, and she’s turning into quite the blogger!! I know I’m biased, but Jodi is quite a good writer, and she’s finding her “blog voice” over time. You go girl!

Working from home today, and listening to some nice european trance in the background… through my entertainment system. How?

1. Find a nice internet radio stream in iTunes
2. Add the stream to a playlist. This is generally not useful, as the stream never “ends”, so your playlist will never go to the “next” song. Be patient.
3. Install the TiVo Desktop software on your Mac.
4. Use the TiVo Desktop preference pane to tell your Mac to share your internet radio playlist.
5. In the TiVo, go to Music and Photos > (your computer) > (your playlist) > (your stream)
6. Play!

Hi, I’m working from the Stonegrounds coffee shop around the corner from my house. Free wireless. Macintosh. Decaf mocha latte. Heaven.

Dave links to a Dowbrigade story about a journalism student killed by police riot-control activity last night in Boston. The line Dave quotes from the story:

“Last night 21-year-old Emerson College journalism major Victoria Snelgrove was killed when hit in the eye by a pepper spray ball fired by Boston Police.”

From the quote, I figured that this was a “police brutality” story. Which, perhaps it was but what you don’t get from Dave’s choice of pull-quotes is:

“…the legions of impaired patrons exiting the many bars and bistros on Lansdowne St. and Kenmore Square itself, students from nearby BU dorms who pour into the Square in anticipation of the party and action, students from other Boston area colleges who pour into cars, or take the subway to get in on the action, suburban high school kids who have been drinking all afternoon and evening who think it would be a hoot to hit the Square and celebrate with the college kids.

Together they turn Kenmore Square into a Free-for-All zone where it is OK to smoke dope in the streets, girls take off their tops and flash the crowd, cars are overturned and the police defied and taunted.”

While the death of anyone in a situation like this is a tragedy, I would not chalk this one up to law-enforcement excess. I don’t know what Dave’s thoughts on this were, but his quote selection here smacks of tabloid “journalism” - he picked perhaps the most inflammatory quote in the story, one that predisposes the reader to a particular viewpoint before even reading the story (actually excerpted from the Boston Herald).

d8uv improved my TiVo layout - I told him I wanted my home entertainment center to be on my network… Haha

http://home.d8uv.com/tivonetwork.png

update: aw, site’s down.

I’m trying to get our TiVo setup so that we can successfully switch between TiVo, the VCR, the DVD player, and be able to watch TV on one channel while TiVo-ing another. I’ve made a diagram of my proposed setup:

If anyone out there has experience with this stuff, I’d love some input on whether this setup will work as hoped.

Update: based on some feedback, I’ve changed my layout to send everything but the DVD through the VCR. Thoughts?

MrBarrett.com: Mr. Barrett:

Now my advice is the same, but for some additional and obvious reasons. No viruses. No spyware. No popups. Take back control of your computer and browsing experience. Get a Mac.

I have a Windows PC under my desk right now, dead. It was working fine until recently when it started rebooting itself every few hours, then fianlly would not boot at all. I never used it for more than website testing, but I suspect some sort of malware had gotten involved, even though I never even launched Outlook.

So, now the PC’s CRT is hooked to my beloved 17′ Powerbook, giving me much more room to play in Mac OS X.