There’s a big community that popped up around AppleTV even before the product came out. Then came the hacks almost instantaneously. Even I found myself checking the somethingawful.com forums 5 times a day. People have ported apps, games, rss readers and what not onto the little device that could. People can open it up and install a new hard disk, but the last time I checked AppleTVHacks.net nobody has been able to mod it without cracking it open yet. Why did Apple not make it better? Sure, they are coming around to it by making ‘enhancements available for download’ sometime in the future. Who cares?

XBMC or Xbox Media Centre is the best out there. I have an original XBOX in my living room with the latest version of XBMC running smoothly. I can play every single media file known to man, stream it from the network or the internet, use plugins to interface with almost every well-known website and much more. Why has this software not been ported for mainstream use yet? Why have smaller hardware makers not embraced it for use on their proprietary machines? I recently heard about the Team XBMC hiring Linux developers for the same purpose. Wonder what can we expect to come out of this? Only good, I bet.

A very invigorating poem.

I am hoping to pick up my Nintendo Wii soon, pre-ordered from Future Shop. I am picking this up ‘for’ my 14 month old son. There have been so many Wii accidents being reported with the wire and what not, and YouTube is maxed out with those videos. This was a funny one.

I started watching all these RC Car racing and drifting videos on youtube and felt like a kid all over again. I am hooked. I need to get one of these again. Now that I have a son who understands what a car is, I think I may have just the excuse to order one of those cool ones from Korea.