• 11:05 On the road w/Alex & Lani, going to Sac for the day. #
• 11:51 Traffic sucks. #
• 13:53 At a Mexican restaurant, the name of which I have already forgotten, in Old Sac waiting to be seated. #
• 13:58 Ps. It’s hot. Really damn hot. #
• 14:02 There are, however, horses. #
• 17:23 At Raley Field for the River Cats / Grizzlies game. #
• 19:54 Grizzlies 7 River Cats 0, bottom 2nd. Ouch. #
• 20:00 Scenes from AAA baseball: fan offered either a coffee mug or $50 to hit his wife in the face with a pie. He took the cash. #
• 20:54 15 – 0 Grizzlies, top 5th. Was a no-hitter until a few minutes ago. #
• 21:57 And the final score is 15 – 0. #
• 22:24 On the road home. Entertainment was basically a bust but the company was good. #
• 00:27 Home. Bed. #

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• 09:43 Happy Anniversary AVP & Tony from the guy who pressed "Play" on the CD player. #
• 10:20 It’s really disgustingly hot already. A little worried about kitties, though I did check their water bowls before I left for work. #
• 15:38 Fiddling with Blogger layouts. Trying to go to three columns. #
• 16:41 Little-Known Facts about Sarah Palin: tinyurl.com/56ofm6 #

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• 10:33 Cat owners: Suggestions for digestive aids? Rita eats too fast & doesn’t keep it down. #
• 10:54 Good news: Bonus hit account today. Bad news: 50% withholding?! #
• 13:05 Anyone else getting AIM spam from bots with "trout" in their name? #
• 13:07 Google is my friend: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreatHatsby #
• 14:47 I heart Outlook rules. They’re great for binning meaningless, misdirected corporate announcements. #
• 17:26 Bill Richardson: "John McCain may pay hundreds for his shoes, but we’re the ones who pay for his flip-flops!" Classic. #
• 18:55 Waiting for Obama’s speech. #
• 20:15 Dear John: There’s no shame in acknowledging you’re completely outclassed and bowing out gracefully. #

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• 10:04 At work with a lovely headache. :/ #
• 12:59 Lunchtime. I don’t feel particularly hungry but I need to get away from the desk for a while. #
• 14:59 Meeting time. #
• 15:04 Wait… strike that… reverse it. #
• 15:47 HRC moves convention suspend rollcall votes & nominate Obama by acclimation. #
• 17:18 Heading home. #
• 20:34 Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new shark on exhibit! #

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Following up on this post from earlier this month, about the trials and tribulations in adding external storage to my DirecTV HD-DVR. I’ve returned the Buffalo DriveStation unit back to Fry’s. We used it with moderate success to buffer two weeks of Olympic events, but the DVR was markedly less stable and there were noticeable gray-screen delays when deleting saved programs or browsing the list. That, combined with DirecTV’s lack of support for the eSATA port and anything their customers might want to attach to it, made the decision to return it a pretty easy one.

What would DirecTV have to change in order for me to use external storage on the DVR?

1. Supporting the port in hardware, by which I mean acknowledging its existence; recommending specific drives and performing compatibility testing.
2. Supporting it in software, by which I mean not having to reboot the DVR to use external storage; using external storage as additional space for the internal drive and not, as is presently the case, an either-or situation that doesn’t transfer saved programs or Prioritizer entres.

For now, I’ll stick with the internal drive. The Olympics were really the only situation, aside from our recent three-week vacation, in which we risked running out of space on the internal drive, so I don’t anticipate needing more any time soon. If I do, and DirecTV still isn’t supporting eSATA, I’ll probably investigate an internal upgrade.