Man wish I lived in Keller TX and could try out Verizon’s Fiber TV service.  Wonder when Qwest will get its act together, if ever.  And Comcast, well, their HD service sucks — lots of signal dropouts, a/v synch problems, etc. 

The hype sucked me, I got a Dyson Ball. I have to say, this thing is seriously cool. It really does have great suckage. Super easy to clean out. My only beef — a cord you have to collect yourself is so 1980s, even my cheapo kenmore vacuum has a self-retracting cord.

I’ve never gotten around to redoing my home phone system to be all-IP but still have a deep interest. Here’s a couple more things to consider when the project bubbles to the top: * Asteriskathome — a version of the open source pbx for the home. A nice web management UI and hopefully config’ed for ...

Lots of posts recently as people realize that we aren’t going to see cable/satellite HD feeds into MCE machines for a long time — No CableCARD for Windows Media Center until Longhorn (probably), Say It Ain’t So Joe… Why HDTV Support in MCE Won’t Change Until Longhorn Arrives. Not at all shocking, the PC is ...

* Install Tiger on Mac Mini. painless. * Rip latest CD purchases. * Update ipods * Install and tune surround sound system in game room * download last 5 alias episodes using bitcomet. (lest you think i am a rampant pirate — i pay directv for satellite service, i pay comcast for hdtv service, we’ve ...

* Centerstage status. I really need to get the alpha running on my mac mini. * Rich has discovered cable cards but let me tell you rich, it is a PITA to get these cards and to make them work. I have one TV limping with a card from Comcast — but the overall experience ...

I am certainly on the bleeding edge here — but in the next 5-10 years home cooling is going to get more complicated than it is today. I’ve got 4 pcs, a network attached printer, various scanners and cameras, a vonage ata box, hubs, speakers, monitors, router, cable modem, and phone system in my office/server ...

I’ve given up on comcast fixing their IP lease time issues, I am still seeing very short lease times a week+ later. I have found that my old sonicwall firewall was particularly perturbed by these short leases, so i replaced it with a Linksys WRV54G that I had purchased a while ago. No amount of ...

OK in the last four days Comcast has cut my IP address lease times down to 2 hours. At at the end of that two hours there are often 3-5 minutes when I cannot get a valid lease at all. Spoke with comcast and got the run around — “reboot everything”, “remove your router”, “unplug ...

Finally feeling good enough to start tinkering again, and to blog about it. I’m continuing my odyssey to attach every piece of technology I can to my sharp aquous beast of a tv. My Mac Mini arrived last week and I have it hooked up now to the DVI port. Looks great. The gotchas: Apple ...

* First, read yesterday’s (1/27/05) front page WSJ article on the struggle between comcast and the tv networks/producers to deliver on-demand versions of popular programs. Comcast wants to screw the networks/producers, the content owners want to protect their revenue streams, and so users are left with nothing — or more exactly, users are pushed towards ...

Today’s adventure — getting a cablecard from comcast. As anyone knows, their website is quite silent on how to order a cablecard. If you call them and ask for it, they will provide it finally with some arm twisting. Two techs showed up today. The physical install in my sharp aquos was quite straightforward. The ...

I’ve yet to move my house over to a full voip install but still collecting lots of interesting links: * Pulver launches Bellster — now driving termination costs for calls to 0. Do I really want people calling out on my analog lines tho? * Prototype phone with zigbee integration — one attempt at dragging ...