Today is the last day to submit your essays! The individual with the best essay will win a $25 BestBuy giftcard and a free TiVo t-shirt. Good luck!

There are only two days left for you to win a free $25 BestBuy giftcard and a TiVo t-shirt. Just thought I would let you know :).

Remember that there is only one week left for contest submissions. The winner of this contest will win a Best Buy gift card ($25.00) plus a TiVo t-shirt.

In the spirit of the holiday season, Dave Zatz is offering the chance to win a free TiVo ornament to anybody who comments on his site from 11/27-12/7. If you haven’t already checked out Dave’s site you really should.

Also, don’t forget the fact that this site is hosting a contest as well.

TiVoBlog.com is offering a free TiVo T-shirt (size large) and $25.00 Best Buy gift card to anybody who writes the best essay for one of the following topics:

• “How TiVo Has Changed Your Life”
• “Why TiVo Is Better Than The Competition”
• “What Is Your Favorite TiVo Feature And Why Can’t You Live Without It”

As always, there are a couple of ground rules:

• Entries must be submitted by December 14, 2005
• A winner will be selected by December 21, 2005
• All entries must be submitted to the following email address: contest@tivoblog.com. Please include your mailing address and contact information so that I can contact you if you win.
• Please submit your essay as a word doc or as plain text in the email.
• The winner agrees to have their essay posted on TiVoBlog.com.
• Sorry, but I am not going to ship outside of the continental USA.

If anybody has any ideas for another essay topic please let me know. I am open to other suggestions.

You might be wondering why I am doing this. Well, in order to give back to my faithful readers, I thought it would be a nice idea to have a little contest that shows my appreciation. Sorry it couldn’t be more but I’m not Donald Trump after all :).

I’m rather proud to say that TiVoBlog.com has been named one of the top 100 blogs according to cnet.com! When I started the site back in July ‘04, I never could have imagined that it would be such a hit. Thanks to everybody who keeps on reading this site. I really appreciate it!

Complete Top 100 list here!, OPML file

It’s hard to believe that TiVoBlog.com has been up and running for one year now. This past year has been great. The site has grown to be a lot bigger then I would have expected. Thanks for all your support and make sure that you continue to check back often!

Thanks,
Alex (tivogeek)

I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (the blogging software I use) however; I haven’t finished converting over the old look and feel. I hope to get to this in the near future.

If you see this post it means that TiVoBlog.com is running on its’ new host (bluehost.com). So far the support over at bluehost has been great. I hope it stays that way ;).

Updated: 4/19/05: Bluehost has been great! I have nothing but good things to say about the company. I now host 4 domains with them. If you are looking for a reliable hosting company then bluehost should be the one you select.

Updated: 6/10/05: Once again, Bluehost is great! I had a small problem with this blog and a couple other blogs that I run. Bluehost was able to fix the problem in less then 24hrs!

Updated: 09/06/06:  I’m still very happy with bluehost.  As a matter of fact, they recently offered me more bandwidth and hosting space for free!  Go bluehost!

There are a number of reasons why I started this site up.
1. I love TiVo and I want to let others know about how great it is. TiVo has truly changed my life and I think it is one product that everybody should have in their household
2. I use to post TiVo related content on my family website however; I realized that most of my family & friends don’t want to hear me rant and rave about my TiVo .
3. Why not? Hosting is cheap!
4. I’m a geek….geeks need to have a site to post their thoughts.
5. Did I say that I love my TiVo and I would like to share TiVo news and information with others!