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TripIt is travel site I have been using for the past few months. I’m not sure exactly how I found it, but I’m glad I did. Tripit describes itself as a “travel assistant.” It works by e-mailing the confirmation e-mails from flights, car rentals, and hotels to plans@tripit.com. You are then presented with the information imported in a clean looking itinerary with all the information imported, weather updates, and maps. You can add other items such as meetings, activities, restaurant reservations, and directions to the itinerary if needed, and you the itinerary can be exported to any calendar that supports the iCal format. The itinerary can also be printed out, and includes Google Maps for both the area you’re visiting as well as all the driving directions for the trip in a nice, clean layout.

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Tags: ical, review, travel, tripit, web

I wrote the following on a forum when someone was asking about Net Neutrality and someone else confused it with the Fairness Doctrine. I thought I’d also post it here so I wouldn’t lose it.

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Tags: bittorrent, comcast, fairness, internet, isps, net neutrality, neutral

As we wait on our waitress to return with my credit card I thought I would test this put again.

Tags: boscos, iphone

Test from Wordpress for iPhone.

Tags: iphone

In anticipation of my upcoming trip to NYC, I’ve installed the PodPress plugin. This is going to be a test of the plugin.

 

 Test song [1:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (36)

My Tivo HD is now all setup. The M-Card is installed, and I can get all the channels I got with my Comcast box. My Comcast experience was great. I was expecting the worst due to my own past experience as well as some of my friend’s. There was no problem getting the Cable Card, they came with the right card, set it up and left to go and call and get it activated. An hour and a half later he called me and told me it was done. My only remaining tasks were to redo Guided Setup and reboot the Tivo.

This thing is great! TivoToGo works just like I hoped it would (although rebooting the Tivo while you’re copying a show over is not recommended). With my other Tivos being a Series 1 and a Series 2, I hadn’t been able to use multi-room viewing before either. That’s a pretty nice feature.

This is a screenshot from today’s Conference USA finals game on CBS. I captured it using my antenna because my cable card wasn’t setup yet. I’m looking forward to trying to convert this to a DVD to see how it looks.

Comcast is on the way. I went ahead and setup my antenna so I could record the basketball game on CBS this morning. The recording of the game is 20GB! I knew it was big, but dang…I’m going to have to free up some serious disk space to save shows on my computer.
When the Comcast guy called to tell me he was on his way, he also wanted to make sure if I had run the guided setup on the Tivo. I hope that’s a good sign that it’s going to be a good tech, although it’s stupid they won’t let people do self-installs.

The Tivo HD came in today. My wonderful wife agreed to let me get lifetime service on it, something I’ve regretted not getting with my two other Tivos. I’ve paid the equivalent of a couple lifetime payments with the monthly amounts I’ve paid since 2000.

Setup was a breeze once I found my Tivo Wireless adapter. The one problem I have, is that it’s too easy to go back menus when I’m entering my wireless information. Other than that, there weren’t any problems. My wireless network was detected perfectly, and Tivo connected. I wish the options for video resolutions was a part of guided setup. I don’t mind digging through all the options, but how many people set up HD Tivos without setting the resolutions to match their TVs?

So far I don’t have much to test my Tivo with. My Cable Cards should be installed Saturday, assuming Comcast comes when they’re supposed to. I tried scanning the cable channels, but I don’t want to spend hours finding the unencrypted channels, so I’m waiting on Comcast.

The Tivo HD I bought from woot.com is going out for delivery today. I have a comcast appointment for Saturday afternoon to get a multi-stream cable card installed. My monthly Comcast bill should drop at least $10 after this is done and I return the crappy HD DVR they use. I’ll be posting about my experiences with Tivo support and any problems I have with the cable card install. I’m expecting the worst due to the horrible time a friend had getting his installed, but I’m hoping they’ve improved since then.

This is a test using MarsEdit. The picture is of Hilltop Manor, a bed and breakfast in Hot Springs, Ark. We spent our first anniversary there, and it was a great time.