Archive for March, 2005

Converting DivX/XviD AVI to DVD with FFMpeg

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

I recently bought a DVD burner, and I’ve been experimenting with the different software for video conversion, mastering, and burning in Linux.

Peerflix

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

I happened across Peerflix the other day. It’s a Netflix-like service, except that members trade DVDs among themselves.
This sounds pretty wacky at first, but it could work.

Akira Kurosawa: “Sugata Sanshiro” (Judo Story)

Friday, March 11th, 2005

I just finished watching “Sugata Sanshiro,” Akira Kurosawa’s first film.
Being his first picture, it’s definitely rough around the edges, but it still has all the trademarks of the early Kurosawa, including Takashi Shimura

Google fun

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Google is almost omnipotent. While I’m sure most of you know about Google’s calculator, perhaps not as many know that it can convert most weights, volumes, distances, velocities and so forth.
For example, it will tell you that 60mph is 161,280 furlongs per fortnight
However, it can’t yet tell me the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow [...]

Rounded corners with CSS and JavaScript

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

Quite a few people have tackled the issue of rounded corners in CSS already. However, all these techniques suffer from the same problem: non-semantic markup.