Guess what, I got woken up by the phone.

Well, not exactly, I had woken up, and I was trying to watch Robot Wars, but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

When the phone rang (my mate with the new computer's wife) she was trying to get a foxtel card going I'd given her. Took half an hour on the phone of how to get it sorted, but it was in the end.

I got up, started watching tv. Checked my email, it took me 2 hours to get through my email.

Ate some breakfast, bummed around. I got through a lot of episodes of Robot Wars.

While I was doing this, I was pulling Sabrina episodes off the tivo, in preparation for making another DVD.

I processed all the files, put them through Ulead DVD Movie Factory, and started the DVD rendering.

When I noticed something other than Robot Wars (all I've watched for about 3 days) on the Tivo, I decided to watch something different for a change. I then found that the channels had got all mixed up again.

Instead of an episode of Norm, or South Park, I had an hour of Sky Channel, woo, great.

I'm sick of sorting it out, it takes 1/2 hour, I get RSI, and then they just get mixed up again, and I don't notice until I go to watch something, and find the wrong channel has been recorded.

Bugger it, I decided to reorder the channels on the tivo instead.

while I was making a list of the channel order it keeps changing to, my mate I go to dinner with called me, I chatted to him for a while, he wanted me to go down to Sydney with him while he talks to some guy, I didn't really see the point of me going. He's basically just going to try to get rid of the work down there anyway, since noone is interested in climbing on buildings and maintaining the illegally installed wireless bridge.

I finished making a list, then I worked out the current tivo setup ids, channel numbers/names, and the new channel numbers, then I generated a script using nawk, ran it on tivo, and all my channels were properly remapped.

While I was working out the new channel ids, windows blue screened, with that "Error writing to disk D:" again. That's starting to worry me. Scandisk complains that there might be bad sectors everytime I boot too. Anyway, it came back, so I saved my file, and continued working. A little while later, while I was still working out the new channel numbers, windows locked up. Great, there goies my DVD rendering, that was a waste of 3 hours.

I'm sick of windows. I think I need to find some linux DVD software.

Oops.. I'd forgot about the fact that 7 doesn't work. It doesn't matter normally, since 7 is just "no broadcast on this channel", but now, it's a movie channel.

I've just mucked around making up new ir codes, loading them, rebooting tivo, waste of time (about an hour in total). I can either get a 7 that works as a 6 on it's own, or a 7 if its the second digit, or 7s that don't work at all.

oh well, I never watch that movie channel anyway, it had Tom Cruise on there this time, he's an idiot.

Now I have to try to remember the new channel numbers. Annoying ass satellite tv. It's only wasted about 4 hours getting it sorted.