Jeffrey McManus

Too many people yelling at each other, not enough spaceships and robots and explosions.

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If you’re a nerd like me and you like the Star Trek, and you’re looking forward to the alleged upcoming movie and you’re taking in the remastered episodes, head over to trekmovie.com and soak in the humorous and incisive commentary thereon.

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Link: Do They Still Want Their MTV? – New York Times.
MTV prospered for decades because it looked like what a network might look like if a 16-year-old were doing the programming. But now the music channel is trying to make its way in a multidevice, multiplatform, multichannel world, most of which is being programmed by [...]

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I wonder to what extent the lack of availability of a good, affordable DVR solution for HDTVs is hindering adoption of HDTV. I know that this is supposedly the year that everybody got an HDTV from Santa Claus, But we’re holding off, probably for a year or so, until the market settles down a bit. [...]

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1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Scrubs
3. The Daily Show
4. The Colbert Report
5. Number 1 Single

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Dan Theurer of my team created a Java application that enables a user to search for and purchase items on eBay from within Tivo using Tivos’ HME software development kit and our Java SDK. It’s a proof-of-concept application, not 100% ready for prime time but functional (and actually pretty impressive to look at, I’ll try [...]

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Yahoo is reporting that TechTV content will be syndicated by the new Al Hurra TV channel (run by the U.S. government there, it’s like the Iraq version of Voice of America.
I like it. Gadgets not guns. It’s Coca-Cola diplomacy, Silicon Valley style. If we’d only been handing out Palm Pilots in Vietnam, world history might [...]

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Just finished watching the new Battlestar Galactica miniseries. Krikey, it ruled. Dark and scary and violent and — hey, whaddya know, something that resembles hard science fiction on television.
Run, do not walk, to the Sci-Fi channel to catch it when they repeat it.
Yes, this just became geekiest weblog in the history of the universe, thank [...]

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