Archive for November, 2006

Right on cue

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

On the heels of a recent discussion over at Cam’s blog (scroll down to the comments and discussion of climate rather than religion), I just found this via Digg.
According to this entry, it is estimated that something like 30 billion kilowatt hours are wasted each year by people not turning their computers off when they [...]

Plug it in, Plug it in

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

After all the crying the big car companies previously did over the oppressiveness of the California clean air act (which was scrapped many moons ago) and the lack of any financially viable electirc car market, GM has no announced it is building a hybrid with plug-in capablity. Speaking in California no less, GM CEO Rick [...]

Looking for HDV Stock Footage

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

In recent times, I’ve become more and more interested in the editing and composition of video. Yes, I guess you could call it “film”, but that label brings with it thoughts of entirely different things. I’ve become interested in playing with tools like Final Cut, and the more time I spend doing it, the more [...]

Why I love Open Source

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I love open source software. Let me share with you a little store to illustrate why.

1:17am: User Jerome (who I think is in France?) finds a bug in jaRTI and posts details on the forums
1:24am: I get an email informing me of the post and am alerted to the problem
1:35am: I replicate the problem and [...]