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Ever wonder what makes the guy behind TiVo tick? If not, you can probably skip the rest of this post, but the Lower Hudson Journal Times has a detailed profile of TiVo CEO Tom Rogers. If that sounds like a New York area paper to you, you're right. Rogers flies from his home in Harrison, NY to TiVo HQ in Alviso, CA every Monday morning, and makes the return trip on Thursday evenings.

I used to have a 90 minute commute each way to work, and that was hard enough. Rogers spends six hours in the air twice a week. While that's technically fewer hours in transit, he gets to spend less time in his own bed.

Anyway, there's not really any news in the profile. TiVo used to be an advertiser's worst nightmare, now the company's working with them. TiVo faces competition from generic PVRs, but Comcast will be rolling out generic boxes with TiVo software later this year. And so on.

But it's an interesting read if you're interested in Rogers' background and what drives a person to spend four days a week away from home. Here's a hint: if TiVo can afford to fly Rogers across the country twice a week, you can imagine that he's pulling in a decent salary.