Not too much going on at the moment. I spend some time over the weekend working on the HTPC, and it’s now mostly functional. It’s displaying to the TV, it’s running MythTV, seems to do music and video playback pretty well. I’ve also got it loaded up with a bunch of NES and SNES ROMs, but that’s not quite working as I’d like it too. Ideally, playing an NES or SNES game from the HTPC should be as much like playing it from the original console as possible. At the moment however, it displays as a square in the middle of the TV screen, rather than filling the whole image. This is partially because I don’t have a video card with overscan support in Linux and partly because the emulator doesn’t want to stretch the image across the whole screen. I just ordered an ASUS V9180 Magic video card to try and correct the overscan problem. It’s a GeForce4 MX, so it should have overscan support directly by the nVidia drivers. I’m also going to try using ZSNES instead of Snes9X for SNES emulation, hopefully it will be able to stretch the image properly.

I also spent some time rearranging furniture in my apartment on Saturday. I’m going to move my computer desk from the living room to the bedroom, making more space for people to sit and play games and whatnot in the living room. Should work out nicely, I hope. I still need to figure out how I want to run the ethernet cables through the wall. I think I’ll get a couple of RJ-45 wall plates and replace one of the cable plates. This should also give me a better work area for fiddling with computers and whatnot. Hmm…. whatnot.

Andrea and I went to see Underworld on Saturday, I thought it was pretty good. Not the best movie ever, but better than a lot of what I’ve seen in theaters recently. I can’t really put a finger on anything wrong with it, but from some reason it just didn’t jump out at me as a movie that I’m going to rush off and buy on DVD. We also rented The Core on Sunday, which I liked. There are a couple of technical things that kindof bugged me about it though, mostly things like how do they communicate with the surface when they’re in the Earth’s core? And if the weapons control stuff is vital to their mission, why did they put it at the end of the train, instead of up near the front, seeing as they have to jettison anything that gets broken. Ah well.

Also, picked up a little IOGEAR 2-port KVM switch for when I get my Linux box built up and running, so I can just switch my monitor and stuff between the Linux box and my main PC. Havn’t had a chance to test it out yet, but it looks pretty basic. I’m slightly confused by the weird little cute creature thing that appears several times in the product documentation, and on the website.