The power supply on my laptop was dying, so I ordered a new daughtercard and spent three hours tearing it apart and reinstalling it. Should have checked the wall wart first, boo.
Been messing around with the AppleTV again, installed samba to speed up the network transfers.
Got a HTML5 version of my movies up and running. However because of battles over royalties, implementing it will require reencoding everything to Theora, for which I do not currently have enough space on my server. A project for another day.
Moved to Los Angeles. Been writing a bunch. Gonna find out the truth, one way or another, shortly.