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    -Henry Burgess

Well worth reading: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030407fa_fact1 by Seymour Hersh.

I am back after being busy with things non-computer.   Cindy is out of school this week so I just have not had time for computers! And just now my third ReplayTV has arrived and I'll see if it works today or tomorrow.

Romeo and Juliet at the Rep Review:  why, someone please tell me, do people "improve" Shakespeare?   I wanted to cry when suddenly Romeo appears in leather jacket and shoots a gun.  Although I was in shock at the gratuitous nudity and cigarette smoking.  Please, someone on the staff at SRT should be shot.   Both of my thumbs down on this one, sad, sad, sad.

Movie recommendation: Night of the Hunter with Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish (1955) is worth a night in front of the big screen.

Oh yes, No WAR, please!   We have great people over in Iraq right now, I pray for them, but this is Bush's war, and should not be our countries war.

NO WAR, Please!  Worth reading: Michael Moore's letter to Bush

HTPC: I had a day's worth of problems with my WinTV PVR 250.  I decided it might be because of a conflict with having the HDTV card in the system, so I removed that and the problem persisted.  Most of the time the card did not work in that there was no TV image or sound!  Then I found a setting for graphics card overlay that mentioned Windows XP, I checked that box and everything has been fine.  Whew.  Maybe it's time to try putting the HDTV Hipix 200 card back in.   I also downloaded powerstrip in anticipation of setting up the VGA output to go directly to the HDTV although I am nervous about that.  I'll post another complete hardware list and pictures once I am happy with the setup.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

After two bad Western Digital 120 GB drives I returned the last one for a refund from PCClub and get a Seagate from Hard Drives Northwest.   The Seagate is very quiet and it looks like it is working perfectly.

No Intel CPU ships!  I have decided what hardware to buy for my HTPC (Home Theater PC) and, feeling the need to run out and buy something, I ran over to PCClub only to find thy were out of Intel CPU chips.

While read­ing the docu­men­ta­tion for the MSI moth­er­board moth­er­board have in com­puter in my fam­ily room (used to play MP3s and WMAs) WMAs) no­tice it pro­vides for Video-­out. So So spent part of this morn­ing try­ing to find find lo­cal sup­plier of the don­gle. Fail­ing that that went to the lo­cal elec­tron­ics store and pur­chased parts to make one my­self. For For few buck buck can see if if like play­ing vid­eos us­ing the PC.

Ma­jor dis­ap­point­ment! The MSI moth­er­board had video-­out as op­tional. But now now have the fe­ver, fe­ver, am look­ing at the Shut­tle Shut­tle PC.

Today's book: Blinded by the  Right.

ReplayTV: They say it's the right number, try again in a few...  ,,,,Well the FAX never did go because the line was busy or would not answer.  I sent the letter via USPS, sigh.  Now I am looking at WinTV 350 and I see that my MSI motherboard has TV-oout capability.

The Slashdot article on MS interns has some disturbing reports for female interns.

We went to see Chi­cago (movie) this past week­end and and found it with­out re­deem­ing so­cial value.  There were some amaz­ing per­form­ances and lots of pro­duc­tion value, but it's a movie that need not have been made and that you should not waste your time with, in my opinion.

I in­stalled the Of­fice 11 Beta to­day with one mi­nor glitch, glitch, had had gar­bage reg­is­try set­ting, set­ting, could­n't even re­move WORKS (I think it was in there form DELL) un­til un­til fixed the reg­is­try.

The Re­play TV re­mains bro­ken, here is is let­ter to the VP of en­gi­neer­ing LETTER (in Word format) that I have not sent in yet.  Here is the file of the packet dump FILE (in TXT format).  

8PM: In­ter­est­ing Note: Re­play TV web page lists lists FAX num­ber that is in­cor­rect.