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Welcome to HyperDrifter.com, the personal website and blog of Darwin Slattery. I set up this site to share some of my work and interests. I hope you find something of interest.

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Recent Pages

MythTV 0.22 Upgrade
Version 0.22 of MythTV was release last week and I just had a go installing it on my Fedora 11 system.
Published: 13th November 2009
Section: November
Site Redesign
I have been working on an alternative design for HyperDrifter.com for a while. Up until the 15th of September 2009, the site was running on the Joomla CMS software and, although it provides practically everything you could need for a website, I wanted faster load-times for pages and also to try to simplify the process of writing content. I also did not want to have to worry about keeping the software and its extensions up-to-date. This post summarises my work on some software to help me do this.
Published: 20th October 2009
Section: October
Mad Men: Original Score Volume 1 (2008)
The first release of David Carbonara's original score for the television series Mad Men features music from a number of key scenes in the first and second seasons.
Published: 19th June 2009
Section: Review
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959) is an enjoyably low-key story about a sheriff's struggle to keep a murderer locked up in a small town jail until a federal marshal arrives.
Published: 19th June 2009
Section: Review
Links for 09 June 2009
A list of links that I came across over the past few weeks.
Published: 9th June 2009
Section: June