A new remote, and two books on TiVo hacking

After being seriously tempted by the Kameleon, I ultimately rejected it because there’s no way to add buttons, and its macro programmability is limited. Instead, I (somewhat reluctantly) bought a Home Theater Master MX-500, which is butt ugly but remarkably easy to program. So far, I have it doing everything I want to except for the one-button macros; once that’s programmed, someone (like, oh, Betty) can just press the “DVD” button to turn on and switch around the appropriate components. Mmmm, macros…
In other news, Amazon has a promo: if you order Krikorian’s TiVo Hacks and Keegan’s Hacking the TiVo together, you get both books for about $38. Since I love books, I bought both of ’em. All I need now is enough time to actually perform the surgery.