James Wynn

This post has both inspired me and given me great relief.  I’ve been searching the internet for some good progress in technology, and finally I have stumbled across it.  Two awesome little tools when hooked up allow you to find and keep up-to-date on all of your favorite tv shows.  Who needs DVR!?  With Democracy Player and tvrss.net finding and keeping up to date on your favorite tv shows is simple and automatic.  Step one, find the a feed on tvrss. Step two, enter that feed into Democracy Player and start the download.  Step three, enjoy your shows everyday!

UPDATE:  After playing with Democracy Player a bit I’ve found it does not manage torrents very well.  It is best to download torrents with something like utorrent (which will handle rss feeds nicely) and then watch them from some other program.  DP still provides access to tons of other quality content though.

I’ve been playing with lots of newer technology lately and I’ve been trying to update my blog in doing so.  First I added tag support, this required me moving away from blogger, which wasnt a huge issue for me.  Then I started adding more media content, videos and pictures, and music.  I started thinking about all the other things to incorporate: tag-clouds, technorati links, del.icio.us integration, playlist display.  Now the site is starting to get cluttered and gross though.  Perhaps thats why it hasn’t been posted to in a while.

Something must be done.  SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.  Oh the humanity.

“Does the noise in my head bother you?” - The Gods Must Be Crazy

For those of you who don’t know why I cannot wait for the next gen Nintendo console, please check out this video. It could save lives.

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I’m an avid fan of version control system such as subversion and cvs; the ability to have every change you make to your files automatically backed up is… addictive.

Most developers keep their source code and resources in a repository of some sort, but I hypothosized that this mechanism would work equally well with any other type of data. I figured that if it keeps my code safe, why can’t it keep all my other documents safe too? Instead of making weekly/monthly backups, I just automatically backup everytime something is changed. In addition this repository would allow me to easily access the most recent version of each of my documents from anywhere.

I decided to try it out for a couple months to see how it worked. I merged my documents from all 3 of the computers that I regularly work on into one repository. This was simple enough. Before I started working each day, I would just pull an update from the repo, and each time I updated a file or added a new resource I made a commit and kept on working. Some added benefits from this repo is that there is now never any fear of deleting files or making large changes.

The only downside to this system is its lack of integration. Perhaps with some customization of tortoiseSVN and some extra scripts I could further simplify the process. Whatever the necessary steps are though, I have decided this is a worthwhile investment. As far as I know there is no commercial product that provides this functionality. It would be appealling to see a product that allows you to manage your documents on an individual basis all across your system; integrated seemlessly into the desktop.

I urge anyone thats experienced with VCSs to try this and see how it works for them.