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Apple today announced at Macworld Expo the release of the Apple iPod Mini, a smaller and lighter little brother to the iPod. With the smaller size also comes smaller storage, as the Mini comes with 4 gigabytes of storage in 5 different colors. It’s nice, but at $249 the size needs to be a deciding point, both physical and data storage, for someone to choose it over the iPod 15GB for $299.

Over on TiVo News there are two articles announcing that TiVo is filing suit against EchoStar, owners of the Dish network and the Dish PVR, for Patent Infringement. You can find the CNet article here.

This could be huge for competitors of TiVo planning to release their products in the near future, including Comcast. Stay tuned, this could be huge.

Hi everyone, and happy new year! I just got back from some much needed vacation time spent around the house and out in Pittsburgh visiting Laura, and other holiday mayhem. I plan on keeping more timely with my posts as my new year’s resolution, so expect to see more posts more often.

I’m now also a member of the TiVolution!, receiving an 80 hour Series 2 TiVo for Christmas, and it has already been worth it and then some. I came back from Pittsburgh last night and I caught up on a bunch of shows that TiVo recorded via Season Pass and otherwise from the last week. What normally would have been impossible was, and saved me lots of time compared to VCR tape. What can I say, I’m hooked!

I also am now the owner of an Apple product, receiving an Apple iPod 40GB for Christmas as well. I haven’t had as much face time with my iPod since I was visiting Laura and such : ) , plus the fact that I can’t find a store that has the iTrip, so I plan on ordering that today for my trip to Pittsburgh this weekend. So far at work it’s been working very well while I work on projects.

I exchanged gifts with Laura after Christmas, which I gave her a Nikon Coolpix 2100 and a SanDisk 256MB CompactFlash card, which she loved : ), and i received a nice Pittsburgh team Polo and a pullover for golfing, she’s fantastic : ).

Anyways I think that catches us up for now, I hope everyone had a great holiday and a happy new year!

There is a vulnerability in Movable Type that would allow spammers to use the script to send messages that appear to be coming from your server. The fine folks at MovableType have an updated version of the mt-send-entry.cgi for users to download. If you have variants of this script there’s a code fix over at VirtualVenus available for users to enter manually.

BlogShares closed down due to technical issues as well as lack of updates from the owner. The link on the right hand side of the blog should be gone momentarily. It’s unfortunate as it was a creative way to get people moving about through the blogosphere.

You can read the reasons for the closing here.

I finally got the pictures from the Flyers / Sabres season opener @ the Wachovia Center. The Flyers ended up lighting the lamp to a 2-0 victory. Box score can be found here.

Click on the links for larger versions of the original.

TrackBack Development

This is a link for TrackBack Development. I’ve been having issues with pinging other sites to this is an attempt to troubleshoot the issue.

SCO in retalliation for IBM’s countersuit claims that the GPL (Gnu Public License), which is the basis for the free software movement, including Linux, violates the US Constitution…. you heard it, a PUBLIC license VIOLATES the Constitution? I thought Public domain is protected as free speech, right? You can read it here.

Over on Adam Kalsey’s blog he goes through a very basic interpretation of NAT Firewalls and some of the basic shortcomings of the technology (basically why you still need a real firewall on top of NAT). Check it out here.

On Megan’s website Jumping Monkeys she informed the world that she will be leaving TechTV tomorrow for a job at Mircosoft doing some writing and editing with the Experience Windows XP website. I wish Megan all the luck on her new job, and I’m sure she will be sorely missed on TechTV.