Lord of the Oscars

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Lord Of The Rings really cleaned up at the Oscars last night. We had some friends over, drank some champagne I'd been wanting to use up, and watched the Oscars in HDTV. We each tried to pick the winners ahead of time, I came in second, correctly picking 18 of the 24 awards. My friend Brendon beat me by one. It's the Best Actor category that got me, I figured Sean Penn would win, but I wanted Johnny Depp to win, and voted that way. Stupid me. I did pick Lord Of The Rings in every category it was nominated in, I figured it would have a good night, and the law of averages should pick me up some points there. I didn't expect it to win every category it was nominated in, but I sure wasn't complaining!

Proxim AP-4000

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I'm playing with our first Proxim AP-4000 wireless access point today. We've used the AP-1000 and AP-2000 units in the past, but so far, I vastly prefer the 4000. This unit is much smaller than the previous units, and it'll be a lot easier to mount up in drop ceilings. They've also made it a little more theft-resistant, by no longer having removable PCMCIA cards. Now I need to get the old junker laptop they've stuck me with working, so I can test the 802.11a functionality, as I've never used that protocol before, and my iPaq only speaks 802.11b.

Tech Garage Sale

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The great Seth-Tech garage sale continues, as I clean out all the old tech stuff I don't use anymore, now available for your bidding pleasure: 1 GB Jaz Drive & Disk Lot of 28 Atari 2600 games VGA -> Component Converter Terk Leapfrog LF-10S system RCA Infrared remote repeater/extender Nikon SB-30 Flash Nikon SK-E900 Flash Bracket Vivitar 550 FD C/R Flash Nikon Coolpix 995 Digital Camera

Unfortunately, it's going to take more than this to get me enough cash for a shiny new PowerBook. :)

Cheap TiVo

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Wow, with the new $50 rebate, you can now pick up a 40 hour TiVo for $138 with free shipping from Amazon.com. I've got two of the 60 hour variety, and I love them.

Check out my TiVo page for some more info I've written up in the past. You've still got to pay for the "service" for them as well, but I just paid for the "lifetime" service on my units, and I've already passed the "break-even" point, compared to paying the monthly service fee on them. Now if they only had an HDTV capable unit out, for other than DirecTV subscribers...