Tech of the day: Slingbox and Pace TDC577X DVR

I was trying to configure my Slingbox to use the new DVR we got from Comcast. For some reason this model does not show up from Slingbox's list. Fortunately, with the help of the great Google search (and more importantly, its cache) I found that I could tell Slingbox I am using a standalone DVR, then choose Comcast as the brand and DCT34XX as the model. (I should have thought of this since Comcast uses the same remote for all boxes anyway)

Star of the day: Viswanathan Anand, the world chess champion

Anand has just successfully defended his title from challenger Veselin Topalov, a former world chess champion as well. They were all tied through 11 games. Anand won the 12th and final game of this title match.

Star of the day: Dallas Braden

Another no-hitter from Bay Area's baseball team (Giant's Jonathan Sanchez did it last year)! And this one is even better: a perfect game (where 27 batters are all retired.) I was happy to see Mark Burhle threw a perfect game for White Sox last year. This one is certainly more surprising since Braden was not as highly regarded as Burhle. I hope the A's and Braden do better than the Sox and Burhle did the rest of the reason though (basically they went downhill from that game on)