Archive for July, 2009

py2avi released!

py2avi is a python script I wrote to make it eas­ier for me to transcode video files from MKV to AVI while not for­get­ting to extract the sub­ti­tles from the MKV file. On the off chance that some­body out there in Internet-land has a sim­i­lar need, I’m releas­ing the script under the GPL 2.0. So […]

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Times flies when…

Times flies when you’re beat­ing your head against your key­board all day.… or maybe the black­outs just make it seem that way.

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Blargh

You know your morn­ing is shot when it takes you half an hour and mul­ti­ple attempts to drink from an empty cof­fee mug; before you real­ize the cup is empty and you need to go get coffee.

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Thank you Canon!

Five years, one month and three days ago, I bought myself a Canon Pow­er­Shot S500 Dig­i­tal ELPH dig­i­tal cam­era. Around this time last year, I gave the cam­era up for dead but never got around to chuck­ing it out and now I’m very glad I never did. Then around a month or two back, I […]

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Review: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Note: This review is based upon an uncor­rected proof which I received via a give­way on GoodReads. I don’t, as a rule, read True Crime; I do enjoy a good mys­tery. So when I saw this book being offered in a give­away over at GoodReads.com; I felt I just had to enter.  Then when I […]

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