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Digital Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone!  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! 

This is the time of year when we think inward of character traits that make us better people, like sharing.  Here is a great example of how I'm willing to share with my wife.  She loves those geeky math games like Hexic for Xbox 360.  But I like to watch hockey especially when the Leafs are playing.  When I watch hockey on TV I just about always listen to music.  I don't really like announcers.  I was thrilled during the CBC strike they were actually playing hockey games with no anouncer at all.  Just the sounds of skate blades on ice, the crowds build up and reactions.  So, in liew of anouncer gag I am back to listening to music while I watch hockey.  The Xbox 360 affords me the opportunity to do a random shuffle of a playlist while I watch.  However one of the Xbox 360's iPod limitations is that it can only playback 100 song playlists.  This is a limitation that needs to be overcome!  Hopefully a forthcoming version of the iPod compatibility will allow for (less than) >100 song playlists.

So, illustrated in this image are the fruits of my sharing nature.  Using my TV's basic split screen capability (as much as I complain about Sony they make a nice TV set) I let my wife play her game while I watch the hockey game and listen to music at the same time.  It's exploitation of the digital nirvana that is the modern home entertainment system.
Published Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:06 AM by
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