Not even close

A second Tropical Storm Florencehurricane that flies off the coast of Nova Scotia (Florence), heading right for Newfoundland. Tomorrow that is.

I think the weather office reported rain for us all day, which didn’t turn out to be quite that right: it was actually more sunny than I expected. Since it was colder earlier this morning (furnace time has hit the residence), I ran around in sweater, something I deeply regretted at the end of the day.

I did not really follow Condo’s visit to Nova Scotia: you may just as well read it over at CBC’s. Colour me unimpressed. Related: Canada and the US signed the softwood deal.

With Syria foiling an attack on the US embassy in Damascus, what would the pundits say after the US government thanked the Syrian leadership! Nada, I guess, is the answer.

And then technology, where apparently Apple is going to create a set-top box: actually, it looks like it will only be able to download and play movies on your TV. Earlier I was browsing throught the current list of PVR-like devices. Most of them appear to have crappy user-interfaces, notably the ones that come from Philips. I wonder what OS these Philips devices run1: I think we all already know that TiVo’s run a modified Linux (and the company is adhering to the GPL, as you can see right here). I’m pretty sure that they run something like a BSD based Unix distro. But then, a company with the magnitude of Philips (Royal Philips at that) probably has created their own operating system.

1 Earlier I read that Philips PVR users just needed some kind of bootdisk to update/upgrade their existing firmware.

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