The Electronic Programming Guide that Elgato provides and that is based on tvtv for the belgim/dutch channels is back to normal !
It took a while, but all channels seem to be back.
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I left a support message on the tvtv site a few days ago, and today I received this message :
Geachte,
Momenteel ondervinden we enkele technische problemen met de EPG waardoor u tijdelijk geen data ontvangt over de nederlandse kanalen.
Wij doen ons best dit probleem zo spoedig mogelijk op te lossen
Onze excuses voor dit ongemak.Vriendelijke groeten,
tvtv Suport Team
It’s nice of them to respond – let’s hope that it gets sorted out soon – on the tvtv.nl website it seems that the guides are already available again, however I didn’t get an update through my EyeTV guide.
Something momentous happened the first of January 2009. Something enormous.
The eye tv guide (from Elgato) no longer updates with the electronic program guides (EPG) from tvtv.nl, a website that just about every Electronic Program Guide provider uses in the backend to supply the actual program guides of all the television channels. I’m not the only one who noticed.
All the benelux channels seem to have disappeared, and there is no notice on tvtv.nl about something being wrong. Just a blank page. Just BBC One and a few others are still available.
This affects all my devices : my Elgato EyeTV can no longer record my csi episodes automatically for my iPhone, my Kiss hard-disk DVD recorder no longer has access to it’s schedules, I’ll have to fall back on buying a magazine to find out what’s on, and program manually like in old times…
I hope this gets sorted out soon, but I’m not holding my breath in till then…
For those people who are also searching for a solution, you can contact TVTV.nl by going here and filling in the support form.
Or as Michel says it (Delicious entry on january 1, 2009) : My Eyes! My Eyes! It burns!!!
I always thought that this would come : once those beautiful lipo-sucked, collagen-pumped women turn old and wrinkly, the only thing that is left on them is their breast and/or cheek implants… Donatella Versace is living proof of that…
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Sam and Tom
Sam is learning to remember and is starting to associate things. The change is remarkable in a few months. He might see a clown perform a song and at that moment is completely awestruck by it, but a month or so later he is belting out parts of the song !
He can see a play field with a hillock on it with a tube sticking out of it and suddenly start talking about the teletubbies he saw days ago.
Tom is a very good learner in school and is very interested in sums, a bit less so in reading but all in all doing admirably!
Hey there. Thanks for stopping by. Here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !
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When the lady smiles
Golden Earring : when the lady smiles.
A tune that still resonates in me….
When the lady smiles, you know it drives me wild, her lips are warm and resourceful, when her fingertips go drawing circles in the night, and the mood is soft and sensual. hhmm, And I love it, yeah I loove it, it’s the answer to all my dreams, every time I feel like the earth is shaking, it doesn’t matter, glasses falling, I hear it shatter…
It sure brings back memories, the way I felt when I was eighteen…
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Running update December 2008
Pffr.
Pffr just about sums it all up.
Somewhere end of September, beginning October, my knee went from stable when running with a bandage to painful in one night. I had run 3 times that week, plus a first session of Tai Chi. My guess is that the number of runs plus the Tai Chi session did it for me – I probably overstressed my muscles afterwards when taking the ‘rest’ posture in that first Tai Chi session, a friend of mine explained to me that I was overdoing it. Your knees shouldn’t be further than your toes when standing in rest, and I probably was not doing that.
A few days later I woke up convinced that my knee had somehow been dislocated during my sleep and that my kneecap was hanging loose – it’s an excruciating pain !
A visit to the doctor the morning after gave me the verdict : tendinitis in the knee, an injection with Cortisone, a painkiller prescription and the recommendation to ‘give it plenty of rest’.
It took about a month before I could walk without a limp, and in November anytime I ran for the train I had to cope with pains afterwards.
Since a week or so, my knee feels normal again, or at least no more pain. Even a run for the train has no painful effects. I’ll wait a bit more, though. And as a side effect, I’ll probably start floating off the ground – I’m ballooning again with no or barely any exercise and will probably float like a blimp off the ground after all the festivities of the New Year…
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Upgrade of WordPress to 2.7
I just did an upgrade to WordPress 2.7. Woooooh, the admin interface has received a totally new look which I really like, you can install plugins from the admin interface, the upgrade process from now on is supposed to be just one click and no need to delete files and upload new ones… All in all a big upgrade.
Hopefully there will be no big security bugs with all these changes…
[UPDATE : Andre in the comments below was nice enough to let me know a solution : uninstalling Adblock for Safari solves the problem. Apparently Tour de flex uses Webkit, and Adblock thinks it’s Safari so want to do it’s magic on it, and crashes the application. So the downside for Safari users is they don’t have Adblock. I use Firefox almost exlusively, so this is not really a problem for me.]
Tour de Flex, the so-called showcasing of all things that you can do with Flex, is not working for me.
It installs fine, and starts up fine, but when I want to click on an example it crashes. Every single time. No need to tell you that this is peeing me off.
So far I scoured the web, but haven’t found anything like a solution, perhaps because this problem only happens to a small amount of people (maybe just only me ?).
Grrrr. Google in it’s Google Maps API code page for Flex pointed me to a possible solution for a similar problem, but it’s apparently not the exact same problem, as it still crashes.
🙁