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After three and a half weeks, my cable installation finally happened. Not currently recommending AT&T Broadband; they are very lucky that a) my landlord won't let me get DishTV and b) RCN doesn't go to my street yet. But hey, it's there now and I'm happy about that.

I also got to activate my TiVo. People say this a lot, but it's an incredibly great invention, implemented quite well. I had my little TiVo epiphany while I was setting up some season passes (which allow you to specify a given show to record for the whole year). By the time I was halfway done, it was five minutes past the hour and I was missing Smackdown. But wait -- I had Smackdown on a season pass, and it was recording, so I could just go watch it from the beginning. Superb.

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Apologies to my LiveJournal readers for the unkempt apostrophes; the problem is now fixed. For the curious: the MovableType RSS feed templates escape the posts as if they were XML, and XML includes this &apos; entity which is not supported by most HTML browsers. So I switched the encoding to HTML style, and nothing seems to be suffering.

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SCOTUSBlog is one of those places that those of us who like to claim we're keeping up with politics ought to visit frequently. SCOTUS? Supreme Court of the United States. We sysadmins have no monopoly on acronyms. The Supreme Court is the final check on those unjust laws we so frequently protest, and it shouldn't take an Eldred v. Ashcroft to get us to pay attention. (I remonstrate with myself, here, as much as with any imaginary typical reader.) Link discovered on the mad tea party.

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Hey, Californians. Dianne Feinstein knows better than you.

I serve as the senior senator from California, representing 35 million people. That is a formidable task. People have weighed in by the tens of thousands. If I were just to cast a representative vote based on those who have voiced their opinions with my office -- and with no other factors -- I would have to vote against this resolution.

She voted yes, of course. Screw the constituents.