People who visit here (of which I assume there are none) will know that I occasionally rant about how cool bomb shelters are. Dad put me onto this excellent article about the Swiss: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6347519.stm Under Swiss law, local governments are required to provide shelter spaces for everyone, and in the early 1970s Lucerne was short…
Month: February 2007
Akimbo
I was at Fry’s today with the kids, and while wandering around I came across the Akimbo. It’s an interesting device — a hardware player that downloads content over your Internet connection, and then plays those videos for you when you ask nicely. You can select what you want to download form their website, and…
Time for a status update?
It’s been a while since I’ve commented on the MythTV book project, so it’s worth a quick status update. We’re basically into the home straight now — we’ve decided what to cover in the book (which of course involves missing out on a few things which could be in there if we had infinite space…
Big TVs are evil, Ok?
The NFL apparently nastygrammed a church for planning to host a Super Bowl party. The original complaint was first that the church was charging people, but also that they used the term “Super Bowl” (as if people would somehow believe that the church was associated with the NFL?). After the church agreed to let people…