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evening ketchup

May 16th, 2005

Installed SourceSafe 2005 (just the client tools for now)… nice and easy. picked up my existing 6.0d server no problem, and all my SourceControl bindings in <a title=”” href=”http://www.heroicadventure.com” >HA!</a> are working peachy again. I guess I’ll wait a while longer on implementing Vault. Now I just need a decent bug tracker. My wife [...]


Inspiring others to greatness…

May 16th, 2005

<I> If I don’t have a working demo using XP media Center edition, X10 and Speech Server by June 1st, please feel free to write me and remind me that I am a lazy procrastinating windbag.</I>
<P>It would seem the challenge has been made, the gauntlet thrown, the line drawn… <A HREF=”http://msmvps.com/williamryan/archive/2005/05/16/47242.aspx?Pending=true”>Bill Ryan’s blog</A> <P>You’ve got [...]


Dish Player-DVR 942

May 16th, 2005

If you can't wait for MPEG-4 but simply must have an HD DVR now, you could do a lot worse than the feature-packed Dish Player-DVR 942.

From CNET Home Video


home automation

May 16th, 2005

<P>Ever since I caught the home automation bug at the <a href=http://www.atlantacodecamp.com>Atlanta Code Camp</a>… I’ve been thinking about cool stuff I can do with it. <a href=”http://msmvps.com/williamryan/”>Bill Ryan</a> and <a href=”http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/”>Michael Earls</a> both gave me some GREAT ideas. (Neither of their presentations were strictly on that topic, but both of them touched on it in [...]