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Living without cable makes you do many things, including catch up on television shows you never paid attention too.  I finally decided to check out Battlestar Galactica this weekend, starting with the mini-series and then onto Season 1 and the start of Season 2.  I love something with a sci-fi theme, and BSG holds up pretty well.  The characters are pretty good, the story is pretty strong, and the interrelationships between characters has pulled me in.  I hope it keeps up and stays strong.  Don’t spoil it for me!

With all the snow the local Blockbust had almost everything rented, so I fired up Comcast OnDemand and combed around to see the entire Back to the Future Trilogy in HD.  I have seen these movies countless times over the years, but not all three in a single night.  They are fairly silly, but I have to give the writers credit for paying attention to detail.  Christopher Lloyd is insane in this role, and I really can’t imagine Marty being Eric Stoltz at all.

I installed Windows 7 today on the Eee PC 1000h.  So far so good.  The performance really isn’t that bad at all.  Majority of the drivers worked, but I did have to use the XP drivers for the wifi and network, and after that everything worked.  I was surprised that Aero worked fine, but some things were a little slow such as some of the screensavers.  I installed the new version of Windows Live with Messenger.  One annoying this was I couldn’t find a way to turn off tapping, which I hate.  I’ll write more if something happens.

Capcom released a demo for Resident Evil 5 in Japan a couple days ago.  With the help of the guys and girls at NeoGAF were able to figure a way out to burn the demo to DVD and play it over here in the US, and that is what I did.

The demo itself is fairly short.  You have two areas to play in.  The game feels very much like Resident Evil 4, but with pretty graphics.  It was a little odd getting used to the controls on the 36o controller as I played Resident Evil 4 on the PS2.  The game is very action heavy in the demo, with lots of reloading and trying to fend off countless enemies.  I haven’t tried it co-op yet, but it seems to be pretty cool with the branching areas and teamwork moves similar to Army of Two.

WordPress 2.7 RC1 has been released. The Dashboard is REALLY different. I need time to adjust.

I picked up the BBC mini series Planet Earth on Bluray and it is amazing.  If you have a HDTV and a Bluray player, you must do yourself a favor and buy it now.  It is truely amazing to watch.  The detail is jaw dropping, and seeing nature in such scale that is almost looks fake.

Collin’s Xbox 360.  RIP November 2005 to December 2008.

It is Black Friday and I decided to go out and take advantage of some of the deals going on today.  I went for things that had a savings of $40 or more.  I ended up getting some pretty good deals.

• Two 26″ Westinghouse LCD TV.  One for my Grandma for Christmas and my brother in law wanted one as well.
• Microsoft V Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Combo.  I am typing on this right now.  Have to get used to the mouse, but not bad or $29.99.
• Planet Earth Blu-Ray.  I have this on my Christmas list, but I had to bite since Fry’s had it for $37.  I priced matched it at Best Buy since Fry’s was a zoo.
• Got some random t-shirts at Old Navy for $4 or less.

Overall I thought I did pretty well.  Just the TV alone were an almost $300 savings.  I might go to Circuit City tomorrow to check on a Sony reciever, since mine died a while ago.

So I broke down and bought an Asus EEEPC 1000h.  It is the 10.1 inch version with 160 GB hard drive.  So far it feels really nice, good construction, light weight, keyboard feels nice but will take a bit to get used too.  Overall I am happy.  It will be great for travel and the photo blog.  First trip is in a couple weeks down to Los Angeles to see Hymns.