Miro is an awesome program. It’s a very simple concept. You download the player and subscribe to “channels”. Those channels are simply RSS feeds which include videos. The videos are downloaded automatically for you, and the program tracks what you’ve watched and what you haven’t. So it tells you when you’ve got new stuff to watch.
It even supports torrents, and the channels are simply RSS, so with a little effort (or probably searching) you could set it up to download your favourite TV programs by torrent.
There are currently over 3′000 channels, all of them free. My favourite thus far is The Onion News Network.
The best part is, the player runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Here’s a screenshot from my lovely new Fedora 8 desktop.
Here’s the most recent Onion News instalment which inspired this post.
Have said I was going to ditch rsync.net as my backup provider, I’ve decided to change my mind. The eventually got back to me today having finally fixed my problem a whole month after I reported it, and a full 14 days after they last were in touch.
However, my problem was very specific, very random, hard to reproduce, and not a major problem, just a small feature that wasn’t working. They did resolve it in the end, and every message I received was intelligent.
So, I’ve decided to stay put. I’m still keen to use S3 for media storage, but rsync.net are a better option for incremental, automated, nightly backups.
The latest version of Evolution (the email / calendar / contact application for Linux) has introduced an absolutely awesome feature. I just clicked “Send” on a message that I had forgotten to attach a file to. It popped up a little window saying I had used the word attachment in the message but there was no file attached. Genius. I’m always sending emails and forgetting to add the attachments.
I’m posting this more to have it on record than anything else. I was just hunting down the Lucida Grande font for linux, but the Bitstream fonts look awesome, it’s the part I was missing.
On that note, I’ve installed Fedora 8, yes, screenshots to follow shortly… 
A few pics for the photo lovers…
Firstly, the so-called “Streetcars” that whisk passengers around Toronto.
Snow angels anyone?
This is what happens to beer bottles left outside overnight…
A random house I spotted in Saranac Lake a few weeks ago.
Here endeth this installment.
This is the view I awoke to this morning…
Nothing like a little snow to make me glad I work from home!
Apparently Seth Godin’s blog is read by “more people than 95% of all the magazines published in the US”. Impressive numbers. A reader asked why he doesn’t monetize his blog. To which he responded:
I tried to sum it up like this: Not only can’t I imagine charging for my blog, I’m practically in debt to the people who read it. I ought to pay them, not the other way around.
Every time you read something I write here, you’re giving me a gift… attention. It’s getting more precious all the time, you have more choices every day, and it’s harder and harder to find the time. I know. I’m grateful. I’m doing my best to make your attention worth it.
I remember an ingenious little monetization trick less than two weeks ago. It was truly inspiration. He asked people to contact him to be notified when his next product will be released. Fitting for a marketing guru hey!
The inquisitive reader also apparently missed the links to all of Seth’s books in the sidebar. Although personally, I don’t see those as I subscribe via RSS.
Seth subtly re-framed the question, saying he was grateful for his readers, indebted to them, almost suggesting he doesn’t monetize the blog. I find myself asking, was that misleading? He clearly does monetize the blog, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but does his post imply that he doesn’t?
See for yourself, and let me know what you think. You’ll have to leave the comments here as Seth doesn’t accept comments!
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