Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Rock climbing

By popular request, here's some "action shots" from my most recent indoor rock climbing session last weekend at Planet Granite.


Thursday, November 10, 2005

TiVo overlap protection

Yesterday when I sat down to check out the TiVo I got a message about a new feature that was just enabled in a TiVo software update called "Overlap Protection". It seems they finally listened to the customer feedback and allowed for shows which conflict by a minute or two to both be recorded. The conflicting part is recorded for the higher priority season pass.

This is pretty cool, although right now the only case which has this problem on my schedule is Everwood vs. ER. Everwood is 9-10pm and ER is 9:59pm-11pm.

Thursday, November 03, 2005

WB does it again

OK, those of you who know me know that I watch a bit of WB. So much that I could almost be confused with a teenage girl I guess, at least judging by the commercials they run.

Anyway, in this brave new world of TiVo and Bittorrent and downloading TV shows from the iTunes Music Store, WB has once again come up with a neat way of merging content and marketing. Podcasting. Yes, there is now a podcast which is done by one of the characters on One Tree Hill, which is an extension of the story within the show. It is also an opportunity for that character to talk about her latest favorite music which also just happens to be the featured Warner Brothers music they also advertise on the show.

While this may not be quite the masterstroke that Pepsi Smash was, it is still pretty creative.