A few months ago, I enabled the ‘live update’ feature on my QNAP TS-410 NAS. It seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Seems that something happened with it’s auto-update feature, which caused the firmware to be completely bonkers. So tonight, I had an interesting (har har) and fun (NOT) time using my laptop [...]

I’ve been messing around with BrightScript (the language used by Roku products) quite a bit lately, and found their Eclipse-based development tools to… Well I think they suck. Then again, I’m no fan of eclipse. So I dropped back to using the roku sdk makefile examples, and my text editor of choice: jEdit. Here’s a [...]

So this year I got a couple of Roku 2′s around Christmas time. We have one on our main TV in the familiy room, and another in the master bedroom. Since we don’t have traditional cable channels, we watch a lot of stuff on netflix, and we’ve contemplated Hulu plus (but I just can’t bring [...]

Over the holidays, my cousin’s son (my cousin once removed?) Eric made a box for his girlfriend. We patterned it off a small jewelry box Kylene had, and we liked it quite a bit. The top slides off, and all the joinery can be done with a dado set on the table saw or a [...]