In putting together my Media Center last night, I encountered something I seen to hit every single time I am installing new hardware: the manuals/drawings/instructions almost always SUCK!

The first box arrived last Thursday, the case on Monday, and the rest arrived yesterday! Unpacked everything and now it’s spread out across the dining room table.

The Jacksonville Code Camp seemed to be a great success! ConsulTech rocks for setting all speakers & volunteers up with nice embroidered shirts.

For all those that were present, sorry I had to go so fast through my session.

[via Heather Solomon] I’ve wondered why it was so “cool” to use a tableless design. Sure, you can position stuff anywhere while with a table it’s more of a flow layout… but please, exclusive use?

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a short overview of the TiVo conference call from Wednesday where they released that TiVo made a profit in the quarter ending July 31 of $240,000.

After two weeks to looking around at various posts in the Media Center newsgroup, TheGreenButton’s forums, reading other user’s config’s, reviewing the MSFT supported hardware, asking many questions, and just making decisions, I finally had my entire WMCE box spec’d out.

[via Paolo Pialorsi] Stay out of the SharePoint database! With that being said, I stumbed across Paolo’s post “Windows Sharepoint Services incidentally inside permissions on Lists table with tp_ACL”.

[via Guy Barrette] Guy Barrette, a MSFT Regional Director and MVP, reviewed the first MCMS book “Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server” on his blog today.

Some noticed when I released an update to my blog UI (btw: thanks Heather!), I added a new post category: “Football (U.