Category Archives: Admin

Apologies to all

Posted on August 9, 2004 by Stephen Dawson

I have no excuse. Just been variously busy, lazy and in shock. This last came from ballooning excess bandwidth charges. My hosting contract included 500MB per month. In recent months bandwidth has been between 1.5 and 2GB! My $38 per … Continue reading →

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New additions to the Dictionary of Home Entertainment

Posted on March 25, 2004 by Stephen Dawson

Now also included in the Dictionary of Home Entertainment is a new, but probably already obsolete, video connection called ‘D-Terminal‘, plus an acronym that is likely to become very important over the next few years: HDMI, or High-Definition Multimedia Interface. … Continue reading →

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I’m back, plus a beaut link

Posted on February 10, 2004 by Stephen Dawson

What can I say? Sorry. But now the kids are back at school so I’ll try to be a bit more regular here. For those interested in the evolution of audio systems used in cinemas, have a look at Nick’s … Continue reading →

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Dictionary of Home Entertainment now (more or less) complete

Posted on January 8, 2004 by Stephen Dawson

At long last I have gotten around to finishing off my Dictionary of Home Entertainment. The remaining ‘coming soon’ entries have been defined. A few others corrected. Some misspellings and word repetitions corrected. There are now 380 terms defined. But, … Continue reading →

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Listen to me on 2UE, Saturday afternoon

Posted on December 24, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Got a call from Sydney radio station 2UE this morning. They want to do a short piece on Saturday afternoon on how to set up your new Christmas DVD player etc. So they’ll be interviewing me Saturday morning and broadcasting … Continue reading →

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Calling Virginia!

Posted on September 23, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

The statistics on hifi-writer.com show that the highest volume of visitors, by region, come from North America (not surprisingly, closely followed by Oceania, which is where I am). And for the past couple of weeks the biggest number of visits … Continue reading →

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Keeping off the radio

Posted on September 18, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Perhaps it was a mistake, but today I turned down doing a radio interview. Seems someone over in Western Australia had published an article on this most exciting topic: cleaning your hi fi. I had to ask for clarification from … Continue reading →

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Latest Home Entertainment Dictionary update

Posted on September 15, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

A few more tens of hours, and a few more entries in the Dictionary of Home Entertainment. There are now 311 entries there, but I must confess that 77 of them offer little more in the way of explanation than … Continue reading →

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A bit of activity

Posted on September 4, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Well, last month this Web site scored a total of just under 4,400 visits, with 6,200 page views. The visits were up by 100% over the previous month and page views by around 50%. The most popular content pages (ie. … Continue reading →

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Phase 2 of the Home Entertainment Dictionary complete

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Well, I’ve worked my way through the Dictionary of Home Entertainment, fixing up the silliest entries and richly cross-linking terms. So now I’m happy with it, but only as far as it goes. Phase 3 will consist of adding the (gasp!) … Continue reading →

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