So Tivo finally announced their TivoToGo service… with it, you can transfer recorded shows to your laptop to watch “on the go”. Later this month, they’re supposed to have an app available that lets you burn those shows to DVD as well. It’s a slick service that’s been in the works for a while.

In order for it to work, Tivo has to roll out a software upgrade to all their Series 2 boxes. And their web site says that this can take several weeks! I understand that rolling out an upgrade to that many boxes is a big deal, but that still seems like a really long time. There are some reports of people getting it already, but no such luck here. Tivo put up a “get on the priority list” page, but who knows what effect that has.

I just know I want it now. Patience is not one of my virtues.

Glad to hear that all is well with Justin Rogers. He hadn’t blogged or been in touch with anyone since mid-November, so Darren Neimke tracked him down. Justin’s been one of the more prolific bloggers that I read regularly and is the only .NET blogger whose name is a folder of its own in my Firefox bookmarks (too hard to categorize his articles!).

Anyway, I’m glad that all’s well and I hope Justin will be blogging again soon.

… is hard. It’s easy to come up with a list of all the things I want to do, change, start, finish, or otherwise commit to. It’s hard to make a list that has a chance at getting done. After all, a year is a long time and who can say how things will move up or down in importance.

Instead, I think I’m going to try to come up with quarterly resolutions. This way, the timeframe is smaller and I can take on more manageable goals. That’s my approach to development projects as well… make a list of components. Prioritize them. Take the top few and break them into tasks. Prioritize those. Get to work. That’s how you eat an elephant.

So here’s my list of goals for Q1 2005:

• Exercise at least 3 times a week — using the bike when I have to be indoors, playing soccer more when the weather’s good.
• Read more fiction, starting with Cryptonomicon.
• Begin development on a side project that’s been kicking around in my head for a while. I’d like to have the database done, the DAL created, and start the framework.
• Take more pictures with our new camera, particularly with the camera in Manual mode.
• Improve this site, including a new layout, a photos section, at least one article, and more useful links.
• Blog more — at least 4 times a week.
• Complete another retrospective video for Allie (I’ve got lots of raw footage).

With luck, I’ll make a good dent on all of these… maybe posting them here will keep me honest.

Hard to believe that my blog, which hasn’t seen any attention by me in over a month, was picked up by comment spammers but sure enough — a bunch of cheeseball comment spam in the last few days.

Rather than delete it all by hand on-going, I’ve disabled comments for now. As it turns out, one of my to-do items for this weekend is to do some work on the blog. I’ve got a bunch of entries I want to add, possibly switch skins, add some stuff to the Links section, etc. Basically, regular blogging is one of my New Years resolutions and it has to start with cleaning up the place. Looks like adding a CAPTCHA capability for comments is on the list now also.