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God bless
By Sparky | August 6, 2006
Or so I was just told by a random stranger outside while walking Skype. It’s been a fantastic week. I’m settling into my 25th year of life with style, and have been spending a lot of time at home working on a few new projects as well as enjoying my new home entertainment setup.
Of note regarding the home theater I was able to add a HD-DVD player to my personal digital entertainment ecosystem. Thanks to the many great friends to each pitched in a bit for my birthday the amazon gift certificates added up to let me get the Toshiba HD-A1 player, and a few discs. I’m very impressed with the quality of the picture (MPEG-4 makes such a difference over MPEG-2 for HD compression) but agree with most other reviewers that the HD-A1 has some usability and performance quirks that will hopefully be ironed out once HD-DVD players are no longer gen-0 products.
Of note in the new project space I’m working with some cool new people in the blogosphere and aiming to start a few new concepts in personal and business blogging. More on that later - I promise, but I have a couple of weeks of work to do on the project before it’s ready to share with the world at large.
Outside of those projects my professional work life is going well. This week I got invited to interview for a full time Program Manager position at Microsoft, and will be following up on that next week. If all goes well I should be a “real employee” rather soon rather than being the dash trash I currently am.
Now I’m enjoying the bliss of blogging, watching The Return of the King in all it’s upscaled goodness, and waiting for some friends to show up for an afternoon matinee of A Scanner Darkly - sounds fun huh?
Topics: Audio, Daily grind, Events, Friends, Technology, Video |