Plaidophile

I'd post a screenshot of my desktop, but at 1920x1200 it'd probably crash everyone's browsers. ;)

Airport Express is also nice, though I won't know how nice until I actually have a connection to hook it up to. It really is tiny though! Unfortunately, the built-in DHCP server won't do static DHCP, so if I want to run a server on my laptop I have to either trust the long lease time I set to work or set the IP address manually for when I'm at home. (Surprisingly enough, it won't use a Rendezvous name, MAC address, or a DHCP client ID either, and annoyingly it doesn't even try to guess things based on the IP or MAC address of the system which is trying to connect, and as far as I can tell the MAC filter doesn't have any sort of pre-populated "here's recent clients who have tried to connect" thing.)

Still, its NAT implementation seems nice, if only because you can actually select which of the RFC1918 IP address ranges to use.

Anyway, right now I'm watching Mission: Impossible, though my enjoyment of it is kind of impacted because it's yet another wide-aspect movie which is encoded at 4:3 aspect (though oddly enough, the menus are encoded at 16:9), which is even worse on a 16:9 (well, actually 16:10) monitor than on a 4:3 one because it puts letterboxing on ALL sides. Retarded.

(Well, even with the sidebars it's still HUGE. But, still, offensive to think that the vertical resolution has to suffer so much.)

It'd be nice if Apple's DVD player could be forced to ignore the encoded aspect ratio, even if it means that it'd still be all grainy and crap. Which it is. Meh. (It also looks like it's encoded at a really low bitrate on top of all that.)

Though it's not too horrible really. Still good enough for my purposes. :) Hopefully with a component video output the PS2's DVD playback will be better.

Hopefully my DVD collection will be here soon so I'll be able to better assess how it looks for this kind of content. And soon I'll get the digital cable and broadband package, and so then I'll have plenty of happiness during the two, maybe even three hours a week that I'm actually home and not asleep...

(Been working 11-12 hours per day for the last week. But the big dev crunch should be ending soon.)

(Oh, and James and I seem to have worked out our differences, or at least have managed to sublimate them for a while again. It kind of feels like walking on eggshells though.)

Oh, and the other day I finally met my neighbor. He's really neat. But that'll have to be an entry for another time 'coz I'm watching a movie. :)