I am currently researching my next project here at work, so I can hopefully provide somewhat accurate estimates of how long it will take me to complete. I am not exactly sure how fun this project will be, but I fully understand that it will be a big improvement in our product, so I won’t be unhappy working on it. Unfortunately, it will cause me to have way too close of an adjacency to MS products for a prolonged period, which is something I haven’t been forced to do in awhile…. I hate digging up APIs from those bastards…

I hate when I order something online, pay for speedy shipping, and then the people take a day or two to process the order anyway…

I played around with the ExtractStream software a bit last night, but it was getting a bit too late… It seems like decent (although completely unrefined) software, but I couldn’t test it because I couldn’t find a mkfifo binary for the TiVo hardware… I could have built one, but it was late and I just went to bed instead. Tonight I will punch down the network jack in the living room, as right now the TiVo is disconnected from the world… I was kinda upset to see the announcement of v3.0 of the TiVo software today, because it probably means that I will have to go thru all of this all over again once that upgrade makes its way onto my machine.