Sudafed and Suprnova

In line with the changing of the seasons, I have the obligatory cold. I’m therefore sat at home with the heating cranked up a couple of degrees, alternating between Sudafed and Lemsip trying to figure out which makes the most difference. Obviously I’ve also drank about a gallon of orange juice in the last 24 hours.

In anticipation of a dull weekend, I’ve been stocking up on plenty of films and TV programmes via the wondrous bittorrent. Seems to me this is the killer application. There’s a video store just opened about 15 minutes’ walk from here, but what if I simply don’t feel like braving the elements?

I would look forward to the day when we have true TV on-demand, but I know deep down that the recording industry will do their best to screw the model up – either through proprietary DRM that requires excessive expensive hardware upgrades, or by simply setting the film prices too high. So for now, I’m happy with plugging the mac into the TV and picking from the hundreds of movies “out there”.

I am going to need to invest in a new hard disk, though. The machine I have set up to do downloads only has 4gb spare, which means I continuously have to shuffle large files around.

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