Comcast has been getting a lot of heat recently because of their 250 GB/month transfer limit. I always thought to myself *phew*, doesn’t apply to me, because I’m now a Qwest DSL subscriber. Today I come to find out that Qwest has a similar restriction, once the limit is reached, there is loss of service until the month finishes.

Now I don’t believe I use 250 GB/month, but I might. I don’t subscribe to a cable plan, so I download a lot of video onto my HTPC, so it’s feasible that I could near and exceed this limit.

I find the whole thing annoying and frustrating. I hope that a new ISP comes in my area soon…

I foresee Battlefield Heroes will be a great success. It seems to have everything I’d like to see in a PC game: free/cheap (ad revenue powered), low(er) system requirements, massively multiplayer, RPG/X genre hybrid.

I’m super stoked.

For awhile I’ve been pretty disappointed by the audio on my HTPC. The subwoofer never really worked, and the audio levels were pretty abysmal. I have a JVC RX-6030VBK 5.1 setup with a toslink cable going between my Mac Mini and the receiver. The subwoofer is behind a door in my entertainment center, so the already-quiet sound is muffled. I’ve been thinking of replacing this system for awhile, because the audio quality is very weak.

Last night, I played around with the configuration on the unit, and set the subwoofer to +10 audio and the other 4 channels to -10. I tested it with some bass tracks, and man it was ground-shaking great. The wife and I watched some TV on it and were pleased with the experience. I think I’ll keep this system after all (at least for awhile).

I lost all of my music recently. That took me years to collect, and frankly I don’t want to have to get it all again, especially since I’m sure downloading 10G+ of music would raise some eyebrows at my ISP.

So instead, I’m going to start listening to some podcasts instead. Recently I’ve been really hooked on 1UP podcasts and the Homebrewcast for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP Homebrew.

My question: does anyone out there in teh interwebs listen to podcasts? What are you listening to while at work? What are your favorite podcasts?

How to shoot light trails. This is something I really want to do, I think it’s really neat.

This is something I played around with a little at 4th of July, but I really need to get some car motion or star movement pictures, those seem to be the most popular targets.

My best so far, some work with sparklers:

I realized afterwards that my color settings were off, hence the yellow hue. Oh well, it will be better next time.