i was reading a magazine today about the next generation home entertainment machines. they are going to be DVD/CD/Tivo machines with built in capability to serv audio and video to any TV in the house via wireless networking and will be connected to the internet for downloads. there is a fight now on how to set up the intellectual property laws that will no doubt be tested when these type machines hit the consumer in the next 3-5 years and there are other fights over who owns the equipment, the data, and the content of the data. all this boils down to the fact that while it may be more expensive in some respects, the day is coming where you can watch any program past or present any time you want and replay it as many times as you want.

along the same lines, i downloaded a bunch of “triumph the insult comic dog” videos of the conan obrien show. while i don’t usually thing triumph is that funny on the show, the star wars premier and the bon jovi special videos are hilarious. go to your favorite file sharing program and check these two out.

also, if you use XP, download SP1 released yesterday. there are some pretty significant security fixes in it.