Today's playlist (1/31/2008)

NIN- Down In It

Today's playlist (1/28/2008)

Matthew Ryan- From A Late Night High Rise
The Fountain OST Clint Mansell (performed by Kronos Quartet & Mogwai)
Dreary music for a dreary day. Ugh.

Radiohead Radiohead Radiohead

I can't seem to get away from them. Here are 15 years worth of pictures of them courtesy of Rolling Stone.

Today's playlist (1/24/2008)

A Place To Bury Strangers

Today's playlist (1/23/2008)

Cat Power- Jukebox
Mark Knopfler- Kill To Get Crimson

Today's playlist (1/22/2008)

Golden Smog- Down By The Old Mainstream

Today's playlist (1/21/2008)

Kelly Willis- Fading Fast ep
Kelly Willis- Bang, Bang

Today's playlist (1/18/2008)

Drive-By Truckers- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
How do they continue to create great albums?

Today's playlist (1/7/2008)

The Beatles- Abbey Road

Media Center

Components

• Antec New Solution Series NSK2400 Mini Tower Case (Silver) Retail (380W power supply)
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe Processor 1.86GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775, 2MB Cache Retail
• Corsair TWIN2X2048-5400C4 2GB DDR2-675 XMS2-5400 Xtreme Performance Memory w/Black Heat Spreader Retail
• MSI 945GCM5-F Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop) Socket 775 1066 MHz PC2-5400 (DDR2-667) mATX Motherboard Retail
• EVGA e-GeForce 7600 GS (256-P2-N549-TX)
• Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE
• Western Digital Caviar SE16 (750GB OEM)
• SAMSUNG SH-S203N 20X SATA DVD Burner Black Drive Bulk
• Vista Ultimate

Notes

• Assembled with no problem. Well, I was frightened during the attachment of the Intel heatsink / fan. I thought that I was going to snap the mobo into two pieces. Started up with zero problems at all, which I assume is a credit to modern mobo architecture.
• Divx and Xvid codecs seem to get installed somewhere between BeyondTV 4.4 and 4.7

Problems

• I initially installed Vista Home Premium. This was a big mistake because it doesn't have Remote Desktop.
• Live TV is not at the quality that I would prefer. Channels 2-5 come in great, but the other channels seem to experience signal interference. I'm sure that I'll be able to resolve this problem in the future.
• Haven't experienced any heat-related problems yet, but it is a concern for the summer months. The media center sits in my entertainment center behind a glass door. The only ventilation is through a 1.5" by 6" slit in the back through which wires are run.
  

Conclusion
I'm really happy that I built this and wish that I had done months ago.

Today's playlist (1/6/2007)

Jesus and Mary Chain- Honey's Dead

Today's playlist (1/3/2008)

Bottle Rockets- Blue Sky