For a long time now I’ve wanted to construct a cheap-ish media centre device for the house and I finally took the plunge a few weeks ago when I bought an original xbox for the purpose. There are a lot of ways to modify an xbox but I eventually decided on the softmod approach which meant minimal soldering on my behalf. It was also the cheaper option as I already had many of the materials lying around the house. Read the rest of this post…

Phew! what an afternoon. Jason Calacanis managed to create a huge flurry of activity using only youtstream and twitter and the results are more than impressive. Faster than anyone could think the community of people gathered around jason (the jason nation) scoured the web to create 3 fully featured pages on mahalo.com Mythtv being one of them. The man is pure genius. Never before have I seen such productivity appear so fast. I can only hope that he continues cause it was good fun.

If your interested, take a look at mahalo.com and see if you too can help us create a spam free internet