Last week at UGC just flew by.  While the flight there was a nightmare (Weather over Houston made us 5 hours late getting out of jackson), the flight back was uneventful.  I have, however, now completely read the entire Harry Potty series (Just finished the Half Blood Prince yesterday) and I’m really looking forward to next month’s movie.

So here’s a few quickie links I’ve come across this week:

  • The KeyPort – a key fob similar to the kind that ship with newer cars, except it hold 6 keys.. The FAQ says it should sell for under $50.  It would be great to drop all my carkeys, housekeys, and workkeys into 1 fob that doesn’t jangle and clang in my pocket, or scratch up my cellphone.
  • New Bad Behavior plugin for Geeklog – Just installed it.. Worked perfectly, and hopefully it’ll fix the recent problems I’ve had with spammers & garbage registrations.
  • A MSNBC Reporter refuses to talk about Paris Hilton – bout time someone finally did…
  • Bloxorz – an addictive little flash puzzle game
  • A great pair of Firefox Plugins:
    • Find Toolbar Tweaks – With this you can replace the "Quick Find" bar with the full Find Bar, and make the "Highlight All" option permanently on.
    • Search Marker – Extends the Highlight All functionality to put notches along the scrollbar where matches are.  Great for long documents.

I’ve been writing a file-reader for VTK this week, something similar to the vtkImageImport but mine supports striding, multiple datatypes, and GZ or BZ compressed files.  I’m proud of it, and it’s working great so far.  The zlib and bzip2 libraries are alot easier to work with than I expected.

The MythTV has been working great as well.  It finally lapped on the Voyager recordings, so it’s stopped recording episodes unless they’re ones i didn’t get to watch the first time. Same thing with Enterprise.  I did add a WiFi USB Internet adapter to the box a few weeks ago, and that proved to be a bit of a challenge.  It was an cheap $10 unit that my dad picked up using a Zydas 1211 chipset.  I’ll post more on that in a bit, hopefully what I discovered will be of use to someone.
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