July 17, 2006

There were 5 posts published on July 17, 2006 (this is page 1 of 1).

Bloggers Everywhere Cheer As Feedburner Acquires Blogbeat

Feedburner, the largest syndication feed management company, has announced its acquisition of Blogbeat, a Raleigh web analytics company. Terms were not disclosed.

I’ve used Blogbeat for over a year now and have really enjoyed the insight its provided me into the happenings here at MT.Net. It’s really a great way to keep up with your blog’s visitors.

This story has particular meaning to me because Blogbeat is my brother Jeff‘s company. I’ve watched as he’s worked very, very hard to make his site successful. I can’t say enough how proud I am of him, to take an idea and make it happen the way he did. Not to mention doing it with two young kids at home.

Congratulations, Jeff!! I know Feedburner will treat you and Blogbeat very well. Just don’t forget us little guys, ‘k? 🙂

Off To Atlanta

I’m off to Atlanta now for a mini-trade show tomorrow. It could be busy or it could royally suck. We’ll see.

Keep cool, y’all.

Satellite Tuning Mystery Solved?

I’ve got a WinTV DVB card set up to scan the skies using a satellite dish from A Well-Known DTH Satellite Provider left over from the previous residents (wow, that’s a mouthful). Tuning the card has proved problematic as I’ve never been able to switch satellites cleanly. Instead, I’ve had to switch polarity a few times before the card would lock on to a channel.

Borrowing a ladder, I hiked up to the dish, took a look, and with the help of the Internets figured out the problem. It seems the DTH Provider’s equipment wasn’t initially designed to work multiple satellties. The switch used to change satellites was a proprietary hack to get the dumb equipment working with multiple “birds.” Because its proprietary, my DVB card doesn’t know how to talk to it.

I could wire both LNBFs up down to the garage and switch manually if I wanted, or I can wait for a new DiSEqC switch gets here next week. After that, its on to buying more dishes and increasing the number of channels I can view!

(For a primer on all this mumbo-jumbo, I recommend a visit to the FTAList website.)