Girls Rock Camp Houston Black Tie Gala

Go to this!

https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/306

They have a goal of $5000 this year. If you can, please help out!

From the Girls Rock Camp Houston web site:

“Mission:
Girls Rock Camp Houston is dedicated to empowering girls and women of all backgrounds and abilities through musical education and creative expression.”

For more information, see http://www.girlsrockhouston.org

TyCurious – A Podcast

Please go listen to my friends’ podcast at http://www.tycurious.com. Great ‘cast about the revolution in Egypt this week!

Sony Receiver Muting Itself Over and Over

I really hate it when I find a question that has been asked over and over again on the Internet, but no one ever posts the fix/answer. So, I’m going to post this answer. I hope it helps someone.

I recently bought a small Sony home theater system. Nothing special, but enough for my small house. This system has three HDMI inputs, and one output. The output is to my Panasonic Viera television. The inputs include my PS3 and the cable DVR box. Once I got everything hooked up, I set up my Logitech Harmony 650 remote to control everything. Whenever I would hit an “activity” button, the TV and the receiver would come on, and the would switch to the proper inputs. However, as soon as would hit the volume button on the remote, or sometimes, just after a few seconds of waiting without hitting any buttons, the receiver would go into a loop of muting itself, then unmuting, a couple times a second.

The fix? Panasonic Viera TVs can communicate with Panasonic receivers via a protocol called “Viera Link”. Sony receivers don’t like the messaging from this. I turned off Viera Link, and everything now works perfeclty.