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 »

Though it wasn't the day that my Amazon Kindle 2 arrived...that arrived a day early. But, I did start loading it up with material to read. The first purchased item was a subscription to Reader's Digest.I had let my print subscription go years ago,… 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 »

I had recently decided, after seeing a Inside Secret podcast on getting XBMC/Boxee onto an AppleTV, that I would settle on getting myself an AppleTV instead of a Mac Mini for my Home Theatre setup. I pulled the trigger on my 40th birthday :wave: Bu… more »

A new category has appeared on my blog. That's because I pulled the trigger on buying a TiVo HD DVR yesterday....via Woot! Not entire sure where I'm going to put it or how it is going to be connected into my setup. But, I've done it. Not sure w… more »

In a moment of insanity, I saw somebody selling a 'new' Samsung SIR-T451 on eBay. So, I threw in a bid and won it. The timing was kind of poor as I was about to embark for LISA, so I knew it would be one big item waiting for me when I did get aroun… more »