From the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror, from the open battlefield to battles tucked away from the media... remember today all who have made the ultimate sacrifice, for freedom comes at a cost.
Month of May, 2006
New Vehicle
Nicole has been disussing getting a new vehicle for some time now so a few weeks ago we went out and looked at several and test drove them as well.
The vehicles looked at included the Acura MDX, the Nissan Murano, the Lexus RX 350, the Lexus RX 400 Hybrid, the Infiniti FX35 and the Land Rover LR3. Now each vehicle was similiar in size and features but each had little issues with them that knocked them out of the running.
In the end she decided to go with the Land Rover LR3. Here are a few pictures.
Comcast Annoyances
Nicole and I recently ugraded our Comcast plan to support HDTV to go along with the HP 42" High-Definition Plasma TV that was my birthday present.
As part of the Comcast offering they upgraded our cable desktop box to the Motorola DCT3412. This relatively new box is an all-digital, dual-tuner, High-Definition (HD) DVR set-top, which includes a built-in DOCSIS cable modem and a full range of audio and video inputs and outputs. Since it's also a DVR it has a hard drive and this model can be equipped with either a 120GB, 160GB, or a 320GB hard drive.
For some stupid reason however Comcast supplies this box with a 120GB hard drive. This means we can get 60 hours of regular programming or 15 hours of HD programming. Now I'm of the opinion that 15 hours is insufficient and I'm not too pleased about that. Not that it matter too much as Comcast only has 10 or so HD channels.
My other annoyance with Comcast is that the box has an HDMI output but for some stupid reason Comcast has only enabled video output over HDMI so currently no audio over HDMI.
Battlestar Galactica: Resistance
The SciFi channel and NBC Universal have announced a 10 episode series available on the web only called Battlestar Galactica: Resistance.
IGN has the story here.
The most exciting news on this front involved Battlestar Galactica, which airs on the NBC Universal owned Sci Fi Channel. Debuting later this year will be a Web series spin-off for the acclaimed series called Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance. Lasting ten episodes, The Resistance will fill in the gap between season two and the upcoming season three.
Unfortunately I've not seen any information as to when this is going to start airing.
Thank You
To the US Army for quadrupling my traffic on Wednesday. They linked the Jesse Macbeth stories off of their main website and drove quite a bit of traffic my way on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
