While I’m beavering away, the thing crashes
I’m working on the big PVR captioning and audio-description postings here, and as of last night (note well: February 23) the box is going haywire. It crashed on recording a certain show. (An Evening with Kevin Smith, which I wanted to retain to use against the captioners later – were you unaware that I have boxes of tapes for that purpose?) Today it claims the only shows I ever want to record are The Eleventh Hour and Prisoners of Gravity. I think not.
Whatever might be the problem?
What might be the problem is that Scientific Atlanta couldn’t manage to make a PVR that doesn’t choke on a leap year. The program guide spooled out seven days past February 23 and… and… got February 29 instead. This does not compute. The ghost of Pierre Elliott Trudeau haunts us all. (Also the ghost of Svend Robinson, but he’s not dead yet!)
But hey, we made Slashdot. And PVRBlog.
And here I am expecting them to get this thing working for blind people.