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Archive for December, 2008

Double Turd of the Week award

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Lost is a series that’s been on ABC for 4 seasons. I’ve never watched a single episode of it until recently. The show is about to start it’s 5th season on January 21. A couple months back the Sci-Fi channel announced it would be showing reruns from the first 4 seasons every Monday in […]

Hectic end of the year

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Two weeks ago I went to my brother’s wedding in Connecticut. Overall we had a very nice time. My wife’s cousin met us up there to help us watching the kids in the evenings so we could enjoy the wedding events. I was the best man and my older son was the ring bearer. The […]

Playing around with HD capture devices

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Currently I’m a cable subscriber and have both HD & SD cable boxes. Many cable companies will encrypt all their channels making capturing via an analog connection the only choice. Satellite tv subscribers are in the same boat and the only option is to use a Hauppauge HD-PVR-1212 as your HD capture device. While the […]

Book Review: Beginning Python - From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I just finished reading Beginning Python - From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition by Magnus Lie Hetland:

Overall it’s a very good book to get you going in Python if you’re a noobie or a programmer coming from another language. Magnus does a great job of explaining the nuts and bolts of python and how to […]

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