10 Jan
Posted by Harper in Technology at 11:39 AM
Tags: beta, interesting, p2p, projects, social, Technology, television, venice-project, web-2.0
The Venice Project is a P2P social television project by the guys who made Skype. They are really into disruptive technologies and I am excited to be a part of the beta. You can get more information at the Venice Project wikipedia page.
I am pretty excited to see how it goes. I played with it [...]
10 Dec
Posted by Harper in General at 11:34 PM
Tags: addiction, entertainment, lost, television
Everyone at worked has been talking about Lost incessantly since I started working at skinnyCorp. It was driving me mad - mostly because they kept talking about all sorts or interesting things. Things that didn’t make sense and it was completely infuriating. I was completely taken in, without even seeing or knowing anything about it. [...]
09 Oct
Posted by Harper in Technology at 12:24 AM
Tags: awesome, bittorrent, democracy, download, p2p, rss, television, torrents
So I canceled directTV awhile back and have been struggling to figure out how to easily download the shows I want to watch. I would love to do it legally. I have looked into the itunes solution - but they don’t have all I need/want. And it won’t work for hiromi - in japan. So [...]
31 Aug
Posted by Harper in General at 05:06 AM
Tags: movies, osx, p2p, p2ptv, television
Is there no p2p tv client for osx. You would think the chinese woudl be able to port something fancy like tvu or tvants or even pplive to osx easily enough. It would certainly make my life easier. hah. well. if anyone knows of any - let me know. and democracy player isn’t really what [...]
04 May
Posted by Harper in General at 04:10 AM
Tags: metal, music, television
So vh1 is doing “metal month” for may. This may be better than shark week! wtf. I didn’t think there was a possibility for something better on TV than shark week.
Check it out. Awesome. Best thing on television ever.
06 Jan
Posted by Harper in General at 04:15 AM
Tags: bored, chris, coding, hot, issak, television, videos
so i sit in front of my TV and listen to music or watch old movies while i code. It is probably killer on my back and such - but it makes coding a lot less lonely and i get a lot done. But tonight it was really bad. My airport express was being a [...]
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