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Living Room Changeabout

Posted by stephen on Friday, 09th June, 2006 @ 14:02

A couple of days ago we had a power cut that lasted a couple of hours. A couple of years ago I bought a UPS to power the TiVo, NTL box, cable modem and wireless router. The UPS did it's job just fine. Unfortunately the NTL street cabinet seems to require power too, so my reasons for having a UPS are effectively nullified. But never mind.

Power cuts leave me restless with not much to do. I couldn't even clean the house properly because I couldn't power the vacuum cleaner. So I decided it was time for a little rearranging. When I work at home I'm usually in my bedroom with the iMac. I decided I wanted to get work out of my bedroom so I thought I'd swap the iMac with the TV setup and use the Mac downstairs and the TV upstairs in my room.

The iMac handily makes a half decent TV so is still useful downstairs. Then I had another idea...

Living Room Changes

My Mini is currently feeling rather spare, but I think it's destiny is to go into my bedroom with the 17" LCD to be a nice TV and music centre up there.

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