TiVo Downunder!

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

Seven Media Group, one of Australia’s leading integrated media companies, and TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in digital video recorders, today announced that Seven will be bringing TiVo to Australia in 2008.

So it is official – TiVo is coming to Australia (and New Zealand!) next year.

http://www.mytivo.com.au/ for updates, I presume.

Kenbushi?

What is Kenbushi?

a powerful Media Server with full-screen media control (like Apple TV) and integrated support for Quicktime and VLC (so plays avi, divx, H264, flash, etc.), built-in cross-platform file sharing, web server and data backup over LAN/Internet. Perfect for building your own home media server. Many home users, developers, media consultants and businesses use Kenbushi.

Wow. This looks like an amazing tool – but then don’t they all before you use them?

On your bike!

Olympic Park with Kronos Hill

Share your bike routes @ Bikely.com

This is a common cycling route for me at the moment. I haven’t talked about this much, but recently I have re-discovered the joys of bike riding. Given that I live so close to Bicentennial Park and the Sydney Olympic site it is a joy to ride around these areas.

This one is around 9km, which seems to be a good distance. It usually takes me an hour or so, but I haven’t been timing it yet. For now my focus is on improving my general fitness and body shape, which so far does seem to be changing

Mixed Reality Branded Entertainment

This is one heck of a mouthful, but it represents the dream of many a geek :

LAMP » Blog Archive » Seminar: Mixed Reality Branded Entertainment

Fortunately a wonderful serendipity is in place that will get me there with the beginnings of a team to start producing a game for Sydneysiders later this year.

Whoops! Serendipity!

Geek to Freak? I’m game

High Intensity Weightlifting – now it is time to start.

» From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

Four Hour Workweek huh? Interesting ideas, that’s for sure.