My Prius battery

This morning two engineers from Japan were riding in my Prius, as we all had to attend an off-site meeting. That made me think about my 2004 Prius battery, which we talked about.

One of the them said that in Japan, 100,000 miles is the financial break-even point for a Prius — I was too sleepy to ask how he calculated that number.

Anyway, when I got home I Google’d “Prius battery replacement” and found this Newsweek article, published just a few weeks ago:

My Netflix Roku box

WIRED magazine called the new Netflix Roku box, “just shy of totally amazing.”

If you are a Netflix subscriber, the $99 Roku box — connected to the Internet and your TV — lets you watch movies and TV shows instantaneously. No waiting to download, like AppleTV.