I have looked at the Moxi DVR before and last night I did some more looking. I have not pulled the trigger on Moxi because of all of the time and money I have invested with TiVo. My original unit is a S2 with lifetime that currently serves as a cartoon box for the toddler. Our big screen TV has a S3 with lifetime hooked up to it, and in the bedroom there is a HD with $6.95/month service.

The current UI does not bother me at all, it’s been around forever and I’m used to it. Now I’m sure if I all of a sudden had a new UI I’d like that one too, but the UI alone is not a reason for me to upgrade. This whole Premiere unit feels like a face lift and spec update.

In it’s current state I would take a Premiere, but I won’t buy a Premiere.

I really like what I am reading about Moxi and the Mate. I’m going to patiently wait for Dave Zatz’s new review of Moxi. Maybe he’ll have a TiVo vs Moxi comparison.

Update: TiVo could have at least made it possible to set up WishLists and manual recordings online.

One really useful thing is that I can see in almost real time what suggestions STiVo, BiVo, and DiVo are recording. I’ve already been able to see a show that I am going to actually want to watch.

If you’re interested the three of them Titter here: http://twitter.com/STiVoHD

Drake browsing for some entertainment

Originally uploaded by xdreamwalker

He was looking for something to do. He would take something down, look it over then put it back. He was being so cute.

The AHL today released the 09-10 schedule. I have made a public Google Calendar of the schedule: http://z11.us/3

The season gets underway Oct 3rd with the first home game scheduled for Oct 23rd. Drake and I will be so excited to get this season underway. He had asked to watch hockey a week or so ago, it was so cute.

The Griffins put out a press release with some interesting facts: http://z11.us/4 My biggest concerns are these:

Longest Road Trip
6 games: March 12-25

Three Games in Three Nights
12 times: Oct. 23-25, Dec. 11-13, Dec. 18-20, Dec. 26-28, Jan. 15-17, Jan. 22-24, Feb. 19-21, Feb. 26-28, March 4-6, March 12-14, March 25-27, April 9-11

Four Games in Five Nights
3 times: Dec. 9-13, Feb. 24-28, April 7-11

The late season road trip never seems to do us any good. Also the multiple games in a short span are always worry sum. Now we just have to figure out who is going to be on our team…

I then remembered that I could export my feed list to a OPML file. I did just that, then imported it to Feedreader. I was then able to do a better drag and drop, and rename. Then I had to export back out, then import to Google Reader.

The only thing that did not work work out was that when I imported the OPML file back into Google Reader one of the folders was missing. I’m not sure why but it was an easy fix.

I also put together two short shows of our trip to the John Ball Zoo and the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum.

Will Google Docs soon provide a place for people to share Photos and Videos?

I saw these two new icons, Photos & Videos, when I logged into my Google Apps Docs, but they vanished as soon as the page was done loading.

The majority of the broken links in my blog are for external sources. There is a rash of old news articles, hockey articles, and pictures. Now the pictures are not things that I have stolen or anything. They are pictures that I was provided an embed code for, but the image is just gone now.

I guess what bothers me the most is the lack of archives for news articles. Data storage is cheap why do news organizations delete content? Also, why can’t the Griffins keep all of their old news articles?