Tivo has made it very easy to time shift programming, watching WHAT we want WHEN we want. A simple hack to the remote allows you to skip through ads, leaving only programming. Timely and efficient. As an owner, I find I watch less TV and never turn it on to watch live. Time is too precious.

It now is possible, with free tools (listed below) to automate transferring HD television shows from a network attached Tivo to a Macintosh, remove the advertising, and transfer them back to the Tivo for viewing.

With these tools, I may have killed any commercial motivation for development and production of television programming. Television is dead and we killed it.

(See also: iTivo: a Mac front-end to your Series 2, Series 3, and TiVoHD device. It can download shows from your tivo to your computer.)
(See also: pytivoX: lets you transfer your media files from your mac to your tivo.)

Movements 2 and 3 of Psalm 50 by F. Melius Christiansen. Performed by The National Lutheran Choir on February 14, 2009 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls South Dakota.

Dr. Clausen’s timeless composition performed February 14, 2009 Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. These appeared on YouTube a few days after our tour. I’m in the third row, second from the right.

(See also: YouTube: Psalm 50 – F. Melius Christiansen)
(See also: YouTube: Set me as a Seal – Rene Clausen)

(See also: YouTube: Schnittke)
(See also: YouTube: Requiem )
(See also: YouTube: The Battle of Jericho)
(See also: YouTube: Oculus Non Vidit)
(See also: YouTube: I Sat Down Under His Shadow)
(See also: YouTube: From Light to Light, I and II)
(See also: YouTube: From Light to Light, III)
(See also: YouTube: From Light to Light, IV)

(See also: YouTube: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners by Williametta Spencer )

(See also: WWW.NLCA.COM)

According to the Delta SkyMiles personality survey:

I TRAVEL IN THE FAST LANE, WITH MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY.

They elaborate:

As one of those rare, special people who gets things done quicker when there’s more to do, you prioritize your time to your advantage. You always find a way to be more efficient, and you never met an obstacle you couldn’t circumnavigate. With such a need to get things done, anything that keeps your runways clear for takeoff is a benefit indeed!

Your mantra is SAVE TIME, BE EFFICIENT, and BE PRODUCTIVE.

I get the same feeling from this as when I read my horoscope. I’m interested but get the feeling it could apply to just about anyone.

Unlike reading my horoscope, I was given 500 miles for my trouble.

(See also: Delta: What’s your travel style?)

Tariq Krim, former Netvibes CEO, will launch a Linux-based OS for Netbooks in 2009 called Jolicloud.

Though it appears based on the UBUNTU Netbook Remix, Jolicloud looks nice and should be a light-weight alternative to Netbooks running Windows XP/Vista/7 or other LINUX distributions. HP offers a locked down LINUX version on their Netbooks called MI. HP/MI looks good but sanitized to the point it is unusable. Hopefully Jolicloud will at the very least allow shell access.

What I really need is a faster OS on the Nokia N810. I wonder if Jolicloud will scale to that platform?

(See also: www.jolicloud.com)
(See also: Flickr: Jolicloud)