I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!

Embiggening the diskspace on my TiVo

I finally gave in.

The oldest season pass on my TiVo, recording The Simpsons off of Fox 25, has now been deleted.

When I first got a TiVo in 2000, I was thrilled at its Simpsons-gathering abilities. Not just the new episodes, but two reruns a day in syndication too. Awesome.

However, the show has descended into the doldrums of crappiness. Everyone accepts that the golden years were through Season 7, which are all out on DVD now (and which I own). The show was hit-or-miss for a few years after that, but it just plain sucks now. Every time recently that I’ve tried watching a new episode this season, I’ve just gotten depressed about how bad it’s become, and give up before the first commercial break.

And since the syndication is mostly focussed on the last few years, it’s just not worth recording. (I note that even the obsessive of alt.tv.simpsons gave up writing episode capsules in 2002!)

So farewell, then, to OFF. Hope the movie(The Simpsons Movie (2007)) doesn’t suck.

RandomBrainDump from BarCampBoston

Dell/IBM to Mac laptop ratio seemed to be about 80/20 in favour of PCs.

Monster did a great job of selling themselves. We only saw their “labs” area, rather than the cubicle farm I’m sure exists there, plus a tour of their network operations, to wow the geeks.

glenn’s notes on some of the frustation in the organisation of BarCamp sum up my complaints pretty well. Except I’d also add that the font on the name badges was too small.

Veracode sounds like it will be fascinating. Not sure how much of it is public knowledge, so I’ll keep my mouth shut for now. And I got to meet Dildog.

PB Wiki sucks salty dogs’ cocks in hell forever. Once you saved an edit, no-one else could edit the page for 15 minutes, because you “kept” the lock.

Bil Lewis gave a superb demo of his Omniscient Debugger for Java. He managed a great gotcha moment for the audience when his debugger crashed. “You should debug your debugger,” said a sarcastic audience member. “Good idea!” says Bil, as he shows that he was running the debugger inside a debugger all along. (That this debugger then crashed with a bug only marginally detracted from his showmanship)

The Reddit chaps rock. When the video for their presentation, Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success, is posted, watch it. It got the biggest reaction (and had the most crowded room) of any session of the weekend.

I had the pleasure of giving a ride back to Boston to Eric Skiff of Common Ground, a New York charity, looking to end homelessness. Not put a band-aid over it. End it.

The links I promised that I’d post from my session, Powerful, Pointed Presentations: Creating Passionate Users, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Presentation Zen and Really Bad Powerpoint. And thank you to Larry the Basset Hound for his cameo.