Oddities

• About Me

  I have been writing software and working with computers for thirty years. This weblog reflects my interests in programming, electronics, broadcasting, and technology.

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• Television & Antennas

  • Keeping TV Free and STV
  • The end of free broadcast television?
  • The DTVPal DVR is Introduced
  • The EchoStar TR-40 CRA
  • DIY HDTV Antenna Resources
  • DTVPal To Be Available At Sears
  • DIY Antenna Materials
  • The Small House With Many Antennas
  • Who Loses With Digital Television?
  • New DTVPal Review by CNET
  • DTVPal Pricing and Availability
  • More DTVPal Details
  • The Channel Master 4251
  • DTVPal Update
  • The GE 22730
  • HDTV Reception Outlook
  • The Netflix Player by Roku
  • Outdoor HDTV Antennas
  • Digital Converter Box Update
  • Indoor HDTV Antennas
  • A Week with the NS-DXA1
  • BBC World News
  • BBC Rebranding
  • Digital Converter Boxes

• Electronics

  • FPGA Development
  • Homemade Battery Technology
  • Radio Shack Stores

• Internet

  • Google Chrome
  • Do People Really Prefer Dial-up?
  • A Look at Opera 9.5

• News

  • How Internet Radio is Replacing Shortwave
  • Speed Limit on the Autobahn

• Oddities

  • The Phonautograph

• Old Time Radio

  • Jack Benny in Casablanca?
  • Barry Craig – Angel of Death – Old Time Radio Mystery Drama
  • OTR Western – Gunsmoke – Doc Holliday
  • Old Time Radio Drama – Dragnet – The Big Crazy

• Programming

  • More About iPhone Development
  • Developing for the iPhone
  • Protocol Buffers: An alternative to XML?
  • Literate Programming and Me
  • Writing FORTRAN in Any Language
  • JavaScript Games for the Browser
  • .NET Framework and Programming Languages

• Radio

  • BBC World Service announces cuts
  • Deutsche Welle plans cutbacks
  • The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy
  • Another Loss for North American Shortwave
  • Reprieve for Online Radio
  • Satellite Radio and the HD Radio Requirement
  • An Expanded FM Band?
  • HD Radios for under $100
  • Longwave DXing
  • Satellite Radio and Open Devices
  • HD Radio
  • Lost Suspense Episode Found
  • Alaskan Shortwave Test
  • Shortwave Listening in Space

• Technology

  • Visual Studio 2005 and Windows SDK v7.1
  • Why are there so many video and audio formats?
  • iPrognostication
  • The end of the Microsoft Flight Simulator
  • The DTVPal Plus
  • DIY Nuclear Fusion
  • A $12 Computer?
  • Rechargeable Batteries
  • Why Weblogs Should Be Different
  • Atomic Wristwatches
  • The Macintosh at Best Buy
  • Virtual Keyboard
  • DTVPal Is Finally Released
  • Computers Are Quiet Once Again
  • Passive TV Repeater
  • The Kindle
  • Straightening Copper Wire
  • How Telegrams Were Written in 1928
  • What Apple Wants From P.A. Semi
  • The Mythical Memristor
  • Computers in the Future
  • New look for Apple notebooks

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