Just got a TiVo Series 2 DVR.  Why didn’t I do this before?  Now I don’t have to worry about when something comes on.  I just let the TiVo do the work.  And I don’t have to hang around waiting for something, which was leading me to watch a bunch of time-wasting crap.

If you haven’t filled up the hard drive with recordings, it has a neat feature where it scours the TV listings and records things that it thinks you might be interested in.  As you watch shows and use the “Thumbs-Up” and “Thumbs-Down” buttons it starts to learn what you like.  It now knows that I like Law & Order and it’s putting a lot of those in the recommendation sections. 

So far it has proven to be a fairly well-polished bit of technology.  It does one thing and it does it well.

Now maybe I can put TV in its place and get around to that pile of unread books that I’ve been meaning to tackle.