October 2006

As you can see I’m back to using the default Movable Type theme. Apparently, SixApart has streamlined the theme format for MT, TypePad and LiveJournal to follow some particular standard, so I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon and refresh all my templates to follow it.

Page regeneration on this site was also getting very slow (when posting comments, etc) so removing all those plugin code was also a good idea. At least now I have a somewhat clean slate to build my Doukutsu Monogatari theme.

Gotta love forums.

There’s actually a utility called MPTray that lets you start MediaPortal with the MCE Remote’s Green button. And since I only use the remote for MediaPortal, that led me to uninstall HIP and the replacement MCE IR driver.

One interesting development though is a new MediaPortal plugin that caters for the HIP/MCE IR Replacement/MCE Remote combination here. However it requires a newer, more unstable version of MediaPortal not yet released to the public, so that pretty much puts it out of the running until a new stable version is released.

Now, all I need to figure out is how to keep my VGA fan from spinning loudly while MediaPortal runs in fullscreen mode.