If you scroll down past the book section you will now see live TiVo lists for Sarah’s and my TiVo. These are updated every fifteen minutes and shows the status and if they are HD.

I’m proud to say I hacked this plugin together myself. There wasn’t a single TiVo plugin out there that will parse the standard, unhacked TiVoToGo xml and display it.

I’m considering releasing it as a plugin for WordPress, but the quality of the code is so poor, it would take a near re-write.

For coders: A cron job on the webserver pulls nowplaying.xml every 15 minutes and places it in the “tivolist” plugin directory. The tivolist plugin parses the xml, does some sorting and munging and displays the recording info. Actually, all the code at this time is in the widget file, with no proper plugin file, but it’s working pretty solidly. The difficult part was writing a xml parser that worked in both stock PHP 4 and 5. If I had done a PHP5 only plugin it would of been about 100 lines less.

I’ve been promising Earnest some car ride time for a while… Today I delivered..
Here’s Earnest thoroughly enjoying the rest stop:

Google searches in which our blog shows up as #1:

pumpkin cozies
steven and sarah
mad Meredith
office-fatigued book geek

Ok, so I achieved this with the use of quotes. I say it counts.

What the losers I work with have on their cube walls… Four foot wookie posters…

Guess what finally made an appearance after nearly four weeks of waiting?

None other than 100% mulberry silk from India. This fiber is so foreign, it’s fibre. (Boooo…) It’s unbelievably soft and although there’s some plant detritus for me to remove, totally worth the wait. It is scheduled for a dye job. I just can’t decide what color it’s longing to be.

And in spite of the healing tennis elbow (slowly but surely) I’ve been sneaking in a few rows of this now and then.

Is that a pumpkin cozy you ask? No. It’s my first official cable knit project. A scarf for myself from cheap-o acrylic yarn in case I messed up. Somehow it’s less frustrating to mess up with $3 skeins of acrylic yarn than it is with $12 skeins of merino wool.