Well, the upgrade to v1.7 of dasblog was a bit more fun than I expected it to be, and ended up with all of the content being non accessible today. But luckily thanks to Karl on the server side it all seems to be up running nicely again. The new version of dasblog looks quite promising, particularly in the area of blog spam and actually having a decent log viewer.

I’m off to have a play

The MSN Remote Record Service allows you to remotely schedule programs to be recorded on your Media Center 2005 PC. A Public Beta is now available but only to users in the United States and Canada. To join the beta...

Go to http://beta.microsoft.com
Sign in with your Passport ID
At the top of the Beta Place page you should see:

"If you were issued a Guest ID by Microsoft, you can sign in by clicking
here."

Click on "clicking here"
Sign in with guest ID: myshows (all one word, all lower case)
Click on "MSN Remote Record Service Beta"
Click on "survey" on the left side of the MSN Remote Record Service Beta
Program page
Click on "MSN Remote Record Beta Nomination Form"
Fill out the form and submit.

All valid nominations will be approved. Once approved, it takes about 24
hours for the information to get through the Beta Place system and testers to have access to the Beta program

Version 1.01.3 of my Media Center Configuration Reset tool is now available for download. This is essentially my 1.02 version of the program with the ‘backup recording schedule’ feature turned off so that I could put out a version which would support Media Center 2005 with Rollup 1 installed. Once I’ve been able to test 1.02 a bit more it will be up for download. http://mvps.org/marksxp/MediaCenter/util/reset.php