Well, after my last attempt at upgrading my network, I let everything just sit for a while, then went on a spending spree to upgrade all my networking equipment to products that supported WPA (Wireless Protected Access). I really needed to, anyhow, since I’m the neighborhood Alpha Geek. So I hooked up the D-Link DIR-625 [...]

I am a mouse whore.

There, I’ve admitted my problem. I should be well on the road to recovery soon. I really am a mouse whore, though: I can’t resist buying a new mouse, even if the old one works perfectly fine. Indeed, I’ve never had a Logitech mouse fail on me (wish I could say [...]

My Tivo’s been having a bit of a problem lately: recorded material can tend to stutter when I’m playing it back, and it seems a lot slower than it used to be. It’s an older model: a Philips Series 1. The opportunities to transfer the lifetime service on it are few and far between [...]

Ah, much much better. My previous Slingbox appeared to be deeply flawed: no sound, then no picture. However, after exchanging the unit and re-connecting it, all appears fine. This time, both the video and audio came up immediately and it all looks great!

With a working unit, the connection and setup was quite painless (though I [...]

Update: Replacing the unit fixed the problems. After further experiments, I think the original problem was likely the network cable connecting the Slingbox to the wireless bridge: at first, I thought my wireless bridge was acting funny, but it worked perfectly with the replacement. Had I been thinking, I might have actually tried replacing the [...]

Before I got the Mac Mini (truly a wonderous machine, that), my wife and I splurged on iPods: she was the recipent of the older iPod Mini (and, yes, we bought it a little more than a month before the announcement of the new models, as is my lot in life with electronic purchases) and [...]