The T3sk3y Defenestrator

Greetings to anybody still reading this.. I realize that it’s been a very long time since anything happened over here. I just took a little ‘Spring Break’ from the Defenestrator. After my little rest, I’m all ready to get back to keeping this fresh – and hopefully even funny and interesting.

Luckily – it’s been a fun but crazy busy spring. Here’s a quick list of what’s kept me away from here..

• Lots of travel – Whistler, Seattle, Colorado, and San Francisco
• Lots of work – it was review season at Logic – and I was busy just about nightly writing them
• Lots of technology misadventures – Most of my household technology decided to spite me this spring
• Lots of fun – I have had the chance to spend quality time with most of my friends and family

I should have the details on some of these in the days to follow..

It’s good to be back…

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A little happy news from Satellite land – and I’m not talking about the 3x3x6 stinky portaloos. After deciding to develop their own PVR, DirecTV has re-inked a deal with TiVo to continue support for another three years. Things were looking pretty dire 6 months ago as it appeared that eventually the DTiVo owners would have to switch to something else.

This is big news for me – I’m pretty addicted to my *cough*highly modified*cough* TiVo that has been hotrodded to allow for 320 hours, a web interface, video extraction, and other goodies. DTV’s box is pretty vanilla and you just can’t extend it to do as many tricks. Though several years old, my Hughes HDVR2 kicks major butt over the other junk they offer now for PVRs.

As the press release states:

“We are pleased to have reached an agreement with DIRECTV that will allow us to continue to provide our service to the more than 2 million DIRECTV TiVo households,” said TiVo chief executive Tom Rogers, in a statement. “As the pioneer in the DVR market, we have created a service that is highly valued by consumers because of our technology, the wide range of our unique features and the unparalleled ease of our user experience. This agreement reflects TiVo’s popularity among DIRECTV subscribers and importantly respects the value of our intellectual property as well.”

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Best news of the day:

Artificial Sweetener Cleared of Cancer Link

This is good news for those of us with raging Diet Coke addictions.. like me..

Now, if people would let go of the other crazy ones like cell phones causing cancer – we can concentrate on solving really important urban myths – like the Richard Gere one..

Here is the full story from MSNBC:
Aspertame found innocent!

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I just finished with what amounted to a solid week of travel.. 3 days in Seattle, then 4 days in Colorado. I managed to sleep in my own bed last Wednesday – but that’s the only time in the past week.

Last week started with a quick trip to Seattle to make a partner visit for my client. It was a lot of travel for the meetings, but we were able to enjoy a couple of good dinners along the way. Our partners took us to a great seafood place in Kirkland – the Third Floor Fish Cafe’.

On Thursday, Heather and I went to Colorado for the weekend to stay with Mark and Julie Picha. They had Julie’s father’s mountain house for the weekend in Silverthorne – so it was a great chance to visit and get in one last shot at skiing.

Mark Picha and I left the ladies behind on Friday and went to worship at the Holy Church of Vail. As usual, everything is better at Vail. You ski better, your breath is better, you are smarter, more clever, and taller at Vail. Friday was no exception. It was bright and sunny with 6″ of new snow – which we took full advantage of. The first run of the day was down a black diamond bump run in Game Creek Bowl – which we followed with 3 more hours of steep and deep in the back bowls. Pretty much the only cruisers we took were to get off the hill at the end of the day.

Saturday was spent on Copper Mountain. It was the direct opposite of Saturday – cold, grey, and icy with intermittent heavy snow. This made conditions very treacherous. The net result was that it became beer-thirty about an hour before the hill closed.

Ah, another successful ski season comes to a close – about 75,000 vertical feet, 0 blown knees, and lots of good memories..

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