Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

I haven't used my AppleTV in a while, but I've been meaning to sit down and use it....and I sense with the coming holidays that I might have time to sit down and do some marathon watching of stuff. So, I've been meaning to let the AppleTV upgrade to t… more »

Was going through my photo collection and saw that it had been over two years since I last snapped a shot of "My Mess". So, here's what it looks like today: As you an see there are still empty spots in my setup, some more obvious than others. The… more »

So, I have been falling behind on podcasts for some time...Originally, I was using TiVo Desktop Plus to convert from iTunes and push out to my TiVo HD. But, it wasn't working too reliably....so it was one of the reasons I pulled the trigger on getti… more »

I haven't used Boxee/Hulu/AppleTV in a long time, but today I was catching up on some TV shows....and found that I didn't get all of Fringe, because Idol had run long >:XXSo, after calming down....I decided to see what the state of Hulu on my AppleTV… more »

For some reason NBC was on the fritz on Wednesday.....so all my TiVo HD recordings were bad/incomplete. So, I had to seek out alternative ways to get Knight Rider, Life and Law & Order.The first two I tracked down using Boxee and Hulu, on my App… more »

Following the replacement of batteries in my SmartUPS 1250VA UPS, my TiVo HD failed to boot properly...and I didn't notice until CSI was more than half over, that it wasn't recording.... >:XXI thought to myself on how I might recover from this, and d… more »

Today I tried out Hulu.Because last night, the schedule bumped Life to about 3:40am. My TiVo HD didn't get it, because it apparently needed to do some kind of maintenance reboot around 3am....only it got stuck, at the just a few more moments or some… more »

I was bored and playing around with my AppleTV, I'm way behind on my video podcast viewing...but there's only so much I can take in at once.So, I was playing around with other parts of it, and looked at Trailers. Finally saw the Star Trek trailer.… more »