Entries from September 2006

September 25, 2006

Passing of the 4508

It never pays to speak of, or think positively about the longevity of any electronic device. Last week I was thinking of how much I love that my ReplayTV 4508 is still kicking after several years. Two days later, it went brain-dead. I was left with a device that just has a [...]

September 19, 2006

Little Invaders

My toddler recently started preschool for the first time. All the excitement of watching her meet her teacher and play with her new classmates was great. She a really fun time and talks constantly about each day. During each day, she played with play-dough, crayons, rode the bikes in the play yard and interacted [...]

September 10, 2006

The Ajax Experience

I am going to be speaking at the Ajax Experience conference in Boston on October 23rd. Here I will be taking folks on a tour of what it’s like developing Ajax features here at Netflix. I’ll be showing several of our rich features, and how they came to be real products. This will [...]