Monthly Archives: December 2008

XBMC has a new home Goodbye Xbox, Hello Apple TV

By Craig | Published: December 28, 2008

For the last 4 years I’ve been using Xbox Media Center (XBMC) on my modified Xbox to stream digital media to the television.  Until two weeks ago it had worked beautifully.
While watching a video the Xbox started randomly locking up. Just occasionally at first, but it got worse as time went on. After taking 4 [...]

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Preparing a Top Films of 2008 List

By Craig | Published: December 21, 2008

About halfway through 2007 I started keeping a list of all the films I see, where I saw them and gave them a numerical rating out of 10. I was curious to see how many films I watch in a given year and how time alters my opinion of them.
With 2008 being the first complete [...]

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Disneyland

By Craig | Published: December 3, 2008

I managed to get from Grand Canyon to Vegas then Vegas to LA. All I’ll say about Vegas is I was there for a few days and did stuff, I’m too far behind and unmotivated to recap it here.
Wandered down the road to Disneyland today. It’s a short walk from my hotel (which is nice) [...]

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