January 2010

21 Jan 2010

Wake up!

I previously wrote about my adventures in setting up a Mac Mini to be a Home Theater PC (HTPC). Part of the Mini's duties, as a HTPC, are to periodically wake up and check various RSS feeds for updates. Unfortunately some of the feeds have a large number of updates daily and checking them once per day means missing updates that have scrolled out of their RSS feed. To insure I did not miss an update I began thinking about how to check each RSS feed multiple times a day while still allowing the Mini to sleep (for the most part) while not actively in use.

personal: 

I recently ordered a small hand-held keyboard and trackpad combination device to control the computer-aspects of my Home Theater PC. The device is called a Whamberry. It looks as though it's exactly what I need. I don't know that for certain though because after two weeks I still don't have it. In fact until yesterday I wasn't even certain that the order had been properly received and executed. Why?