I just finished watching Jericho (S2E6). Thanks to the awful time slot, I have to watch Jericho on TiVo the next day. I’d love to watch during the airing, but you try staying up late and then getting up for work by 4 am. Anyway, I may be reading too much into this, but at the end of the episode it stated next week was the “season finale”. Season, not series. With one episode left, they should have already made up their mind if they were going to keep the show around or not.

I’m hoping they keep it around for another season or two. Yes, that’s optimistic, but I like the characters and I think they could do enough for two more full seasons.

Perhaps the lack of any official word is so they can surprise us during the episode and say “You love the show, you fought for the show, and Jericho will return in the fall for a full season.” Or maybe they’ll pull a season one stunt again, and just end it without telling anyone. Ok… I’ll try not to get my hope up too much between now and Tuesday. :p

Not sure how I missed this one considering it’s about two of my favorite services, TiVo and Picasa. Anyway, here it is…

TiVo Series2 and Series3 users can now view their Picasa Web Albums and/or Photobucket images right from their TV. That’s right, no need to buy one of those fancy digital picture frames, just view all of your pictures from the comfort of your couch (or bed). For more information, check out the TiVo website or the Picasa Blog.

Well, it looks like the string of good shows being canceled isn’t over with yet. FOX has canceled The War At Home. Come on FOX, This show was great!

You’re going to leave American Dad on the air, but get rid of this? Come on now, TWAH is as close as you can get to Family Guy without actually being Family Guy. How about you move TWAH back to its original time slot? You know… the place it was at when it actually did good? Sheesh. Are all of the media companies run by idiots these days (rhetorical question, don’t answer).

I’m about ready to give up on TV. So much for TiVo… everything good is getting the axe, nothing left that’s worth recording.

Well, so far Comcast isn’t off to a great start. I had an install scheduled yesterday between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM to set up my Digital Cable, High Speed Internet, and Digital Voice (VoIP). So, silly me, I get there before 1:00 PM and wait… and wait… and wait.

Around 3:00 PM I get a call from someone at Comcast that tells me that the installer is on his way. Could have been good news, but she follows up by telling me that the installer had used his last Digital Box, and we’d have to schedule someone else to bring one back to me…. or I could go pick one up at the main office. No biggie I though. If he was out by 4:00 PM, I’d be able to get my other errands done and still swing by the Comcast office.

So the guy arrives, looks at a few jacks, and mumbles something about the wiring. Apparently the new house (20 year old hose that is) has what he called “old 45 wiring” which isn’t going to work to well. He tells me that they need to schedule someone to come back out and run all new wiring. Thankfully, they will be able to get someone out there this Saturday… again, between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM. There goes that day.

Thankfully, I was able to talk the guy into at least turning on the TV. With a little reluctance, he does so, but not before saying “I don’t know how well the reception will be”. So, after he leaves, I hook up TiVo and the TV. Crystal clear. Don’t know what the guy was smoking, but it works, and works just fine. I’d bet that the internet would have worked as well had the guy at least tried to turn it on.

Oh well… at least I was able to watch Heroes last night, and schedule TiVo to records the episodes of Battlestar Galactica and The Dresden Files that I missed.

I think tonight’s episode of Battlestar Galactica, 208 Final Cut, was probably the best episode of this season so far. Personally, I loved hearing the origional BSG theme song during the show. I wish it was played more often. Time to grab Ron Moore’s Podcast and see what he has to say about it.

Stargate: Atlantis was also pretty good, though I wish it hadn’t been one of those episodes where right at the last minute everything turns out to be ok. Personally, I think the writers/directors from SG:A could learn some stuff from BSG. But what do I know, eh? :p

I couldn’t really complain about Stargate: SG1. I enjoyed the hand-to-hand combat scenes. It actually reminded me a lot of Gladiator, only on a much smaller scale. It was nice to see something other than the Ori (??) and the friars being the focal point. I’m already sick of them. They either need to do something, or go back to being hermits in a distant galaxy.

Can’t comment on Firefly, as I haven’t seen it yet. It’s TiVo’ed so I’ll watch it tomorrow. Gotta love that little toy.

I’m one of those people that love rumors, especially when it’s related to a product or products I use. Google, Skype, and TiVo happen to be three such products. Now, I’m not a heavy user of Skype, but I have used it. I just don’t have much need for it right now.

Anyway, these guys think that Google’s new IM Service is a foreshadow of their plans to buy Skype.

Another popular rumor is that Google could buy TiVo. Hmm…

Once again it was SciFi Friday, probably one of the best nights on TV.

I think this is probably the first time I’ve enjoyed Stargate: Atlantis more than Stargate: SG-1. Hopefully both shows will pick up more next week.

As always, Battlestar Galactica fraken kicked ass. Looks like next week’s episode of BSG, “Home Part 1″, will be pretty interesting. Considering I’ll be in Panama City Beach, Florida next Friday, I’ve got my TiVo set up to record it, as well as the rest of the SciFi Friday (and Wednesday) lineup.

Hopefully I’ll be able to watch it Friday night, but if not there is always TiVo.