A guaranteed way to draw interest to your blog post is to include photos! Even if you have no idea what is going on here, you will ooooh and aaaaahhh at the pretty colors and shiny materials. Haha!

I made a previous post about how to setup a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) using Windows Media Center in Vista. Today I will show you pictures of my installation into a computer case that looks like it belongs under a TV.

Here is the finished project. The black box on the bottom is a computer! It makes a much better front page image than everything else will, so I will make you click after the jump to see the rest of the post. Enjoy!

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We find out if we’re having a human baby today, and if we are, then hopefully the gender also. Because we don’t know yet, there has been little preparation needed. I’m sure once we find out things will kick into high gear. I’m kind of hoping for a girl just so I don’t have to paint the purple wall.

One baby prep I’ve been working on is getting the computer and PS3 off the living room floor and moved under the TV. I thought I had a solution by removing the shelf and stacking the computer and receiver on top of each other, but it only leaves a quarter inch of breathing room for the receiver, which isn’t good. I bought a smaller HTPC case that should be here soon. And frankly it won’t look as silly either.

Apparently I’m one of the few people that didn’t get Rockband yesterday. Two buddies at work got it and so did Angelo. I dunno…I played guitar hero 3 the other week, and it was fun, but not enough to devote hours of my life to it. I’d rather devote hours of my life to playing fictional baseball games. When Saito gets a strikeout in the 9th and we’re only up by 1 I pump my fist in the living room. It’s awesome.

OK, back to the doldrums of a 5 day weekend.