TiVo Home Media Option

I finally got the Home Media Option working completely with my network. The trick was to tell my Belkin F5D6231-4 to allow traffic on ports 8080-8089/BOTH/BOTH. (Perhaps this will help someone else someday. If it helped you, please leave a comment!)

So now my MP3s and JPGs (the ones I've shared, anyway) are available on the TV when my computer is on. Makes party music a lot easier, that's for sure. And it means I can listen to audiobook MP3s while I clean. Nice!

FRBR

Something I've just learned about: FRBR (Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records).

It sounds scary, but FRBR is really just a way of recognizing that, say, my library's copy of the full vocal and orchestral score for Handel's Messiah is related to your library's two copies (tape and CD) of the Decca recording of Christopher Hogwood conducting Handel's Messiah.

From what I've read in one excellent description of FRBR, it doesn't seem to be intended to describe the relationship between Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and the film adaptation Apocalypse Now, which is set in another time and place. Perhaps that's best left apart from what FRBR does -- it might be a mistake to wish for FRBR to describe both of these concepts.