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Windows Vista Media Center Supports Cable Card!:

Microsoft has just announced full CableCard support for Windows Vista’s Media Center.  They are currently demoing an external CableCard supporting tuner, branded by Dell.

More to come soon [Y].

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ROCK ON!  I can’t wait for this stuff to come out … and a Dell-branded external tuner?  Sweet! 

Of course that just means they’ve “white-boxed” someone else’s hardware and put a pretty Dell logo on the driver’s control panel.  Oh, and it will take them 6 months to approve driver updates from the original manufacturer.  Can you tell I’ve been burned by that before?  Maybe I’ll shop around for another vendor…

Yeah, so I remember me saying that I’d try to do better about blogging every day.  About that.  Sorry.

One of my Christmas presents was Season 5 of The West Wing.  Alicea and I got hooked on this show late this summer.  She got me seasons 1–4 on DVD for my birthday, and we finished about a month ago (we go in spurts – watching 3 or 4 episodes at a sitting).  Also, I’ve been recording season 7 on our Windows MCE computer this fall.

So we finished season 5 on Saturday … and of course it was a bit of a cliff hanger.  Bastards!  Obviously we can’t reliably try to catch season 6 reruns in order (nor do we want to wait … we’ve got season 7 ready to go).  So I set off trying to find episode summaries online.

Enter some of the best writing I’ve seen in a long time.  They’ve got a lot of other shows as well

Television Without Pity » The West Wing

I can’t wait to watch season 7!