It appears that Darren McGavin also passed away this weekend. He was the Dad in one of my favorite movies of all time, “A Christmas Story”. I actually already thought he was dead, but that doesn’t make it suck any less that a.) he wasn’t, and b.) now he is. Argh!

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It appears that Don Knotts has died. I actually remember Three’s Company when it was on the air (I was four), and I used to watch Andy Griffith reruns before Cubs games when I was younger. I liked Don Knotts. He was goofy and he had one of those truly fun voices. 😛

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As some of you already know, I decided to flex back a half day of the almost two extra workdays that I spent at the office this week. Of course, life being what it is, I didn’t just go home and sit on my butt. You see, last week the handle on my sliding glass […]

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Tonight, after assisting one in the initial stages of converting to MythTV, I got the chance to sit down and play with some of the newly functional features of my MythTV install. One of the coolest features that now works flawlessly is transcoding: resampling a recording to utilize disk space. They’ve added a “lossless” transcoder […]

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