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Bugger me. It's time. For the last....many...months, my media centre PC has been sitting on our dining table. Heat constraints meant I had to get it out of the entertainment cabinet, and here it has sat for time immemorial. Ok, not quite that long, but DAMN long, that's for sure. You see (and stop me if I start boring you..no..don't...i'm ...

I've done some reading up (thanks to Noonie and Nick for the links) and from what I've been reading, BlogEngine.net is the way to go. I've not run it yet to try it out, but there's a few things mkaing it look like the correct path to follow: It's open. This means I can hack my own changes in (coz there's no way i'm doing ANY captcha without ...

In the two years since I was last seriously blogging* community server has gone under a few changes - to the point that community server doesn't even seem to exist anymore. Telligent still has products, but they're not for me. Hell, I'd been holding off on upgrading to the latest version as it was. So this blog is, like, massively old. It still ...

For a while now i've been using an iMate JAMin as my phone/pda. It was pretty good, cept for the lack of buttons. It was all touchscreen. I upgraded a few weeks ago. I wanted something that was pretty much the same, but i wanted to be able to type, not just tap. Enter the iMate Ultimate 9502. So far it's going pretty well. There's issues, but ...

I find it fascinating just how much is available for keeping in touch with people. But what really made me laugh was how I talk to a friend of mine in the states. We talk a lot, and finding the easiest way to communicate quickly has been a slowly evolving process. So the setup is like this. Two webcams, one here and one there. Visibility is ...

I did some googling. It looks like someone has sorted out the issue! No more bluescreens when trying to play downloaded avis within Media Center! Just download this free plug in for vista media center, and you're away :)

As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy. Interestingly, the remote control I got, since it's only a keyboard as far as the PC is ...

I've just started reinstalling my media center pc (I think that's the cause of my remote control issues). While it's doing it's thing, I thought I'd make a quick note of a problem I remember having (and am about to have again) getting the bluetooth dongle that I bought to make my bluetooth mouse work. When I first plugged it in, I was having all ...

Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [I've just become a Media Centre junkie], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a ''Media Center'' for 3 or 4 months now. I say ''Media Center'' rather than Media Center (look carefully, there's a difference) because of one tiny thing - I ...

A friend of mine, Tony, from my old job at Telstra, did up a comic last week. I think he was trying to make some sort of point at work :) So anyway, I promised to blog it when I had the chance. And here it is. Click to see it full size. I love it - looking forward to Episode 2!