The [Giro d'Italia](http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/giro09/) started on Saturday, and as is usual now, [SBS](http://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral) is covering it. However, since the Giro is not as popular as the Tour, they're not doing live coverage of every stage, instead providing a 15min stage summary in the morning (Sydney time - so a couple of hours after the stage finished in Italy), and a longer, half hour summary in the evening. However, Tom mentioned in an email last week that he has bought himself a [SlingBox](http://www.slingmedia.com/) and rigged it up to his Sky TV setup box back in Ireland. He provided me with the details to log into it and try it out, whereupon I discovered that he has Eurosport, and, as it turns out, Eurosport cover most of the cycling season. So now, I can log into Tom's set-top box in Ireland, get it to record the Giro stages live, and then log in when I get up in the morning and watch the day's stage! Pretty cool. It works well, and the video quality is pretty good. Isn't technology wonderful :) 836 2009-05-15T01:49:00Z 1