I’m a nerd. Well, not as large of a nerd as Brian Peek seems to be. He created a great Windows application that allows my TiVo to Tiwtter. What TweeVo does is poll the Now Playing lists of connected units and post new recordings to Twitter.

One really useful thing is that I can see in almost real time what suggestions STiVo, BiVo, and DiVo are recording. I’ve already been able to see a show that I am going to actually want to watch.

If you’re interested the three of them Titter here: http://twitter.com/STiVoHD

One thing that Google Reader does not do very well is renaming folders/tags. I wanted to move some of my feeds around and rename some folders, but found it almost impossible. At first I was going to bite the bullet and delete my folders and just restart. I was not looking forward to doing this with my 65 feeds.

I then remembered that I could export my feed list to a OPML file. I did just that, then imported it to Feedreader. I was then able to do a better drag and drop, and rename. Then I had to export back out, then import to Google Reader.

The only thing that did not work work out was that when I imported the OPML file back into Google Reader one of the folders was missing. I’m not sure why but it was an easy fix.



Google Docs New Feature?, originally uploaded by xdreamwalker.

Will Google Docs soon provide a place for people to share Photos and Videos?

I saw these two new icons, Photos & Videos, when I logged into my Google Apps Docs, but they vanished as soon as the page was done loading.

In the past few days I have been going through my broken links. Some of them are for images that I had posted a very long time ago and no longer have on my web space. I was able to find some of them in my flickr photos and replaced the links.

The majority of the broken links in my blog are for external sources. There is a rash of old news articles, hockey articles, and pictures. Now the pictures are not things that I have stolen or anything. They are pictures that I was provided an embed code for, but the image is just gone now.

I guess what bothers me the most is the lack of archives for news articles. Data storage is cheap why do news organizations delete content? Also, why can’t the Griffins keep all of their old news articles?

Thanks to Redbox I’ve been getting free movie rentals on Mondays. They send out a text message that is good for a one day rental only on that day. I don’t even get the text messages. I visit Inside Redbox to see the text codes. You can also follow @InsideRedbox on Twitter to get the codes and other info.

I’m not sure what I’ll get today, it is a toss up between City of Ember and Pineapple Express.

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