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It seems like Atlantis is still on, but SG1's 10th season will be its last. (Gateworld speaks of the show continuing on in some form).

I came across a story today that might make you change your mind about embryonic stem cell research. What do you think of a new technique to apparently get such stem cells from embryos without destroying them?

Just heard on the radio a few minutes ago that the announcement has been made regarding the official definition of a planet and which celestial bodies qualify as planets. There was some talk of reclassifying Ceres, Charon, and UB313 as planets, bringing the total to tweleve, but in the end they chose the more sensible option of declassifying Pluto due to its small size and wobbly orbit. Pluto is now considered a "dwarf planet". No word yet on whether Ceres, Charon, or UB313 will also be classified as dwarf planets.

Cable got hooked up this evening, so now I'm no longer living in a zero channel universe. After a little bit of tweaking my el-cheapo TV got setup correctly.

My TV tuner card was a little more pesky to get working. It came out of the bargain bin a year or two ago because it lacked support for Windows XP. I was at first able to use the Windows 2000 drivers for the card, but some security patches seemed to disable that. Luckily my TV tuner card uses one of the most common chipsets available, and there are indeed even third-party drivers available for this card for windows. Currently I'm using an app called DScaler for actual viewing. It seems to work pretty well.