Just got back from The

Just got back from The Lord of the Rings. Wow. Was that really three hours? It just flew by. What an amazing movie.

It looks like she's going

It looks like she's going to be too modest to mention it, so I will: Be sure to tune into Friday's episode of TechTV's Call for Help, because Chris Pirillo's guest will be none other than my lovely bride. It's on live at 2 PM Pacific Time, 5 PM Eastern. For some annoying reason, they don't have her listed on the Web site as a guest, but she'll be there.

Two weeks ago I covered

Two weeks ago I covered a proposal for The Anti-Thesaurus. Here's more info on the same topic for those who are interested. Nobody was able to tell me, though, why Google doesn't pay attention to the metatag keywords on my homepage, which was my real question. Am I doing something wrong, or is it just a myth that all search engines look at metatags? If you know the answer to this one, pass it on!

De nada, compadre.

De nada, compadre.

I love my ReplayTV (and

I love my ReplayTV (and I'm lusting after a ReplayTV 4000, but waiting for the inevitable price drop), but a new SonicBlue product, the $1,500 Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center, doesn't make much sense to me. It's a home audio component with a 40 Gb hard drive for storing MP3s, and can play directly through your stereo or stream over a home network to SonicBlue's Rio Receiver. It has a CD-RW drive so you can burn your own audio or MP3 discs, or rip your audio CDs to the hard disk. It has mediocre connectivity options: USB for connecting to portable devices, and PNA home networking, though it can use an outboard USB Ethernet adapter. It uses a 56K modem to look up CDDB data. The user interface looks to be on a 5 inch front panel LCD. The good part about it is that it has RCA, coaxial, and optical digital outputs for good sound. But except for that and the streaming to the Rio Receiver, what can you do with this thing that you can't do with a $1,299 iMac? And of course, you can do a lot more with the iMac.

We just started watching Buffy

We just started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer this year; yes, we know that we're Philistines. But actually, this year was the right time, because now the show is syndicated, which means that we can catch up on the past five years. So we set the ReplayTV to record old shows. Do you have any idea how many freaking times per day Buffy plays in syndication? Especially if you have a satellite dish that gets East and West Coast feeds of FX, plus UPN from Boston, New York, and San Francisco, plus local cable syndication? We currently have 15 hours of the show waiting to be watched, and we think that we might have to bump up the recording space. I'm certainly glad that I installed that bigger hard drive in the Replay earlier this year.

MacPDA: "The online community for

MacPDA: "The online community for PDA users who think differently." Now, if PDAs would work with OS X...

Last minute shopping for the

Last minute shopping for the geek on your list: photos of The Girls of Lockergnome.

Dave thinks that Wes was

Dave thinks that Wes was the first to notice the Scripting News Awards, but I think that that was only because Blogger was down at the time.


Unsurprisingly, we're not nominated for anything, 'cause we never are. But I will take a little pride in the fact that Dave told me in New Orleans last year that he thought that we had the best name for a weblog.

It's simple: You steal my

It's simple: You steal my bandwidth, and I reserve the right to make fun of you (and here, here, here, and here).

This one is just a quick-and-dirty job to get the point across; if he doesn't clean up his act, I'll think about animation and worse (no height and width attributes, so the sky's the limit!).

New on the Wise-Women site:

New on the Wise-Women site: Ten Minutes to WML by Virginia DeBolt. Check it out!