Before my TiVo upgraded to the new 7.1 software, I'd been using TiVo Desktop on my laptop to stream mp3s to my entertainment center via the TiVo. For some reason, the new software (TiVo 7.1 as well as TiVo Desktop 2.0) is not playing nicely and my TiVo will not recognize my laptop, nor will the laptop recognize either TiVo in the house. After troubleshooting it for a couple hours today, I had the brilliant idea of trying TiVo desktop on my desktop machine. Both run XP SP2, the firewall rules are the same, and yet... it works. It doesn't much matter, since now I can burn them to DVD from the desktop so they don't suck up HD space on my laptop. So now, I have the first four episodes of this season's Alias to watch on the plane :)

Speaking of television... did anyone catch Extreme Houses of Europe" on HGTV today? I am in love with Chillingham Castle. And the butterfly house? Bizarre. I remember seeing a lot of interesting homes as we drove and walked through Surrey.