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First Look: The New DIRECTV DVR

Ok, it's been a little slow going for me lately. Good thing my reader base only stretches to two people. But this is cool. First word on the impending release of the new DirecTV DVR and what TiVO will be up against come October. By the looks of this review from TVPredictions.com , it should be a battle right off the bat. Coolest feature may be an "active channel" that will allow you to watch/preview multiple channels at once.

That might be nice for you NFL Sunday Ticket holders.

Bitch Dog

I've been there. Taking heat from a customer on the wrong end of a suppport call. I may have even uttered a "non-nicety" after the conversation. But if you consider yourself a professional, you take a deep breath, realize it's not personal, and take the next call. You don't change the customer's name to "Bitch Dog" and send it out with her next bill.

Get Ready for GoogleNet

Will I soon have the option of choosing Google as my ISP? And will it be free? Business 2.0 has an interesting look at what Google may be up to behind the scenes. The least of which is gobbling up fiber-optic cable all over the country, acquiring tons of cheap bandwidth from dying telecoms. Add that to their keen interest in a small startup that is pushing free Wi-Fi in major cities, and we may be seeing the beginning of a technological world coup.

Living on Tulsa time

This one goes out to all my T-Town buddies. Hard to imagine Tulsa being the innovators of the aerial passing game in college football, but I guess it's true. Too bad everybody else started passing as well, because the Golden Hurricane haven't been good since have they? The Gus Frerotte years notwithstanding.

DirecTV About to Pull Plug, TiVo Battling

Slow goings for me this past week, as I've been caught up in some other things and have not been too interested in the tech news of late. I may have to start branching out some more....

Ars Technica has a nice commentary on the impending hammer that DirecTV is about to drop on TiVo and their DirecTivo users, and what that means for each company's comsumer base. It's failry subjective, as most opinions tend to be, but pretty right on ...in my opinion.

The Pentagon’s Chatter Box

From the Red Herring: The Pentagon apparently is tired of all this "human translator" garbage and low-end computer translation software and desires the "Holy-Grail of human language technoglogy".

These people are so stupid. Umm, 3-PO anybody?? Lucas figured this out like 30 years ago. Geeze.

Robot Claw Handles Heaters...as in Fastballs

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have developed a robotic hand that can catch a ball hurled towards it at speeds up to 300km/hr...or 83 meters/second !!! Isn't that amazing? What? You don't know metrics from geo-nuclear physics either? After using an online conversion tool I figured it out to be 185mph. Yeah...that's bringing it. Robot be like "Playuh Please! Is that all you got?"/End Stuart Scott impression. Reporters did however find traces of stanozolol in the robot's wiring.

Check out the video here.

Dont' Mess with Porcupines

So have you seen the pictures of the bull terrier who tried to throw down with a porcupine? I don't normally feel sorry for dogs who attack other animals (or humans), but this is just painful to see. It's hard not to feel a little sorry for the loser of this fight. See for yourself. I guess that bitch got what was coming to her.

The Apple Mighty Mouse

Well, unless you have been locked in a closet with no access to the internet, or perhaps only surf "non-techie" sites, you probably have heard that Apple finally introduced a multi-button mouse. Dubbed the "Mighty Mouse"(not the most original name, but at least they didn't name it "iMouse") it doesn't actually have any buttons per se, but it does have multi-button functionality. It can be used with Mac or Windows, but has greater functionality (there's that word again) on a Mac. It's cool...but it's not wireless, and it's $49. Of all the sites and blogs talking about it, Ars Technica has the best review of it.