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    Saturday, November 25th, 2006

    >It’s miserable outside, I’m sulking cause I wasn’t able to race today. But fear not it’s booyaa’s weekly link roll round up extravaganza!*
    Running

    I love it when my worlds collide. Joe Ely@Run with Perseverance has some tips on earning money taking photos at Marathons.
    Ed@a viking, running has a hilarious take on running with headphones.
    I find I’m […]

    My first tentative steps into video streaming

    Sunday, August 13th, 2006

    This weekend I fiddled around with VLC (on the Mac) and was able to streaming video to my Zaurus. It was pretty groovy until the Zaurus ran out of memory five minutes later (the stock Sharp ROM leaves very little free memory on an SL-5500).
    On the Mac (the streaming server) I used the following command […]

    Making MPEG exported EyeTV records watchable in VLC

    Sunday, August 13th, 2006

    I’ve not had much success with the default export options in EyeTV, the quality (or lack of) the MPEG4 video is just not acceptable e.g. the opening credits of Futurama turn into a McFlurry of pixels. Overall the quality of th export is well, crap.
    I did some researching on teh Interweb and discovered that I […]

    EyeTV 2.3 review

    Saturday, July 29th, 2006

    Downloaded EyeTV 2.3 yesterday after reading about it in TUAW.
    The install was bog standard stuff, ditch the existing EyeTV application, drop the new one into the Application folder. I didn’t need to fish out my license key, it just upgraded in place with everything (recordings, schedules and channel list) in tact.
    The thing that caught […]

    busy doing other stuff

    Sunday, July 16th, 2006

    I’ve been keeping my gardening to a minimum this week, the weather has been very odd ranging from cool/overcast to scorching hot. As you can imagine this has caused me watering grief. The salad window box is ready to be harvested (with exception to the lettuce). In fact I may do this soon so the […]

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