Current Affairs

I. Let's just nuke the whole country and start all over. II. Benchmarked III. Starting to Ride the Web 2.0 Wave I. Let's just nuke the whole country and start all over. If you've been hiding under a rock, you probably haven't heard that there's been a "planned" coup here and that the country was declared in a state of "emergency" yesterday. Nothing really serious happened. I was hoping that there'd be shooting. I love the sight of chaos, that's all. Not all the time though (before you start thinking I'm some psychopath). Besides, I'm not a big fan of guns and blood. I'm just a sadist, haha. Other than that, I hope it's all over and we can all move on. My uncle had an interview at CNN Asia last night regarding the issue, I recorded it for him. You may download the clip at your will from here. II. Benchmarked The video capture session last night was some sort of performance benchmark on the new rig. Here's what I think. The hard disk took a beating. I was recording in uncompressed AVI at full NTSC resolution, 720x480. Chunks of the clip were being sent at 4MB each, nineteen times a second. The clip is about five minutes or less and the acutal recorded size was more or less, fourteen gigabytes. I tried to capture with video compression but the CPU couldn't catch up. Didn't have audio compression until the second pass where it was encoded to a single channel MP3 at 23kb/s. Video was resized to 75% NTSC with precise bicubic resizing plus de-interlacing before that and temporal smoother after then compressed to XviD. Shrinking the fat clip to approximately twenty gigabytes. I'd say it gave the best results from my last settings. III. Starting to Ride the Web 2.0 Wave I'd like to continue my ass-kissing to Google for giving me Google Desktop. I'm enjoying the Web Clips panel (RSS/ATOM/XML aggregator) so much. Makes things easier by saving me from clicks to visiting each blog that I read/check on. So I now want to share the "clips" that I subscribe to. Pretty interesting stuff to read, lots of information and quick bits from my friends and acquaintances.

• Sanya's LJ (http://anniya.livejournal.com/data/rss)
• Sir Joel's Blog (http://joelogs.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
• PHILLIT Blog by Ms. Dianne (http://phillit-dlsc0506.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
• Pinoy Tech Blog (http://feeds.feedburner.com/PinoyTechBlog)
• What is Plan C? (http://whatisplanc.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
• Sir Nash's Blog (http://thenashman.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
• astGUIclient Development Blog (http://astguiclient.blogspot.com/atom.xml)
• Karlo's Blog [nothing shows up though] (http://galesofthefall1024x768.blogspot.com/atom.xml)

I know there are other blogs and feeds that I subscribed to before but I can't remember them. If you write a blog that has a feed, please let me know. If I find it interesting enough (which most likely happens), I'll add it to my list. Feel free to add mine too.

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