Monthly Archives: December 2008

Website Wednesday – TitanTV

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First – yes I know I missed last week Wednesday – but that’s what happens when I lead a busy life.  I’ll try to do better in the future! 🙂

This week’s website is TitanTV.  This is my favorite website to get TV show listings from.  It’s the only one I’ve found that has an easy to use interface, supports Cable and Over the Air lineups combined (it also supports satellite listings, but I don’t have a satellite so I don’t use those listings), and is good at showing which shows are in HD.  It displays the listings in a nice, easy to read and use grid format with being able to click on a show to get details for that show.  The listings are very customizable with selecting which channels you receive, which are your favorites, and what order the favorites appear in on your Favorites tab.

If you have certain DVR software you can use TitanTV with that.  Also, you can setup reminders to be given by email or an RSS feed when shows are coming up.  The site also supports several different addresses, so if you need to check listings for different places you can setup a new place without losing all the customizations for the main location.

So next time you need a website to view some TV listings, check out TitanTV.

Stereotypes are alive and well!

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Today I started my annual tradition of making lots of candy to give as Christmas gifts and to share with people.  The first step (after cleaning my kitchen that is) is buying all the ingrediants.  So I go to the store today to buy everything and I of course get comments from the clerk about how she’d love to be at my party, etc.  Then of course she asked – so are you making this or your wife.  I politely answered her and said I was and she said something about how that is good.  Which made me wonder, if a woman had been checking out would the clerk ask if it was her or her husband who was making the candy.  I’m sure it wouldn’t have happened.  Oh well – keeps my life interesting!

Also, grocery store baggers sure could use some training.  The one working at the checkout I used today sure was slow and didn’t pack things good at all.  Most of the bags could have had more put in them and wasn’t put in good at all – most bags were tippsy.  The clerk also helped bag at the end and she asked me if she could put a lot in a bag or would it be too heavy.  I said put a lot.  She did a bit better than the bagger but still could have had more without causing any problems for me.