Ok, english might get me some notice...

I'm not in the least bit surprised that my infinitesimally small section of the blogosphere hasn't been noticed that much. My own intentions all along were just that I want to be able to take notes on my media-enabled home project. However, a certain craving has manifested itself, and since the only comments I have are from some sort of "bot" begging me to visit "its" site. So english it is. Actually i find it somewhat easier to think in english when it's related to computers and technology. It's a sad situation and I'd really hate to see the swedish universities stop providing advanced courses in swedish. As an engineer I believe it is extremely important that you are fluent in your own language as it pertians to your field.

But I digress.

I also drink beer, but I snuck away from the corporate party for a while ;-)

Anyway, the Wife Acceptance factor has struck again! I had to give up on only recording video on our main computer and instead return the VCR to its spot under the TV set since I, yours truly, had mistakenly shut off/killed the computer during recording of beautiful wife's important recording for the third time. NB: There were no insurmountable technical difficulties (apart from some streaming issues that I have fixed), just that the solution was not stable enough if I forget about it - I need a dedicated box for this...

So I am currently investigating various chassis for use as a base for building an HTPC. The new miniHFX from german mCubed looks sweet, but we'll see. It's not exactly cheap but it fulfills a major requirement: silence.

Second problem is that video editing is so slow (if I want to get anything else done at all)! I need to set up a bunch of SATA disks in a RAID1+0 (or 0+1) configuration I think - or get a SCSI controller plus disk... Again, not exactly cheap. And if I build an HTPC I might offload this task from my machine so the problem goes away. Decisions, decisions...

Still haven't done my homework to provide a network picture. Soon (tm).

Ta-ta! Oh, btw: Sweden will probably crush England in tonight's game :-O