Around about 7am Melbourne time on Friday Faith No More will hit the stage at Brixton Academy in London. Various websites will be live blogging the experience.

A couple of days later Download Festival's website will crash when half the net tries to watch their streaming video.

I've had some fun trying to work out what the heck they're going to play in their first gig in 11 years.

Will it be a greatest hits? A greatest hits + a couple of weird songs? Or stuff they like to play but fans might not want to hear?

Will every show be the same or completely different?

I really really look forward to finding out. Even more so than actually seeing them. That will (hopefully) come later. They hit Chile in October... Australia in November/December? Or the Big Day Out? (boo!)

Meanwhile, I've taken a punt and guessed they'll play "Get Out" first. I don't know why... I don't think it's very likely... but what else? Midlife Crisis? From Out Of Nowhere? The Real Thing? Epic?

I thought I'd update the world on the first six or so months of our Topfield TF7100 PVR. When we bought it there were still teething problems with the firmware, especially for those using the IceTV EPG. We weren't, so we didn't have many problems. Neither were we doing anything fancy like using the HDMI cables or time-shifting live TV.

The only major problem we had was occasionally for reasons I could never fully figure out, the device would "over record". That is, it wouldn't stop recording when it was supposed to. This was usually just irritating (you'd have 9 hours of TV when you only wanted an hour) but in one case it meant missing something (the last episode EVER of Boston Legal).

The newest firmware (20090317) appears to have fixed everything. The only left over issue is one with using the EPG to set up to record something from SBS. SBS in their wisdom include some non-standard characters at the start of the titles for their programs. The device saves these but doesn't show them. When the recording starts it can't save those characters to the filename, so it just saves "SBS" instead. If you manually create your timers this problem doesn't happen. This is probably more the fault of SBS than the Topfield.

So, generally, happy.

We've watched a ton of TV with it, and it's effectively changed our TV habits.

For example, we watched all of Biggest Loser this year. This was only possible because you could watch an episode in 5 minutes, skipping through all the repeated crap. We also watched Eurovision in a similar way. Katie watches various lifestyle programs this way, skipping the segments she doesn't want to see.

We can also watch a lot of programming we couldn't otherwise watch because it was on too late, or on while we're at work.

It's glorious.

I simply couldn't do without my "skip 30 seconds" button. FreeView devices specifically have these buttons banned. Boo. I don't just use it for skipping adverts!