Go Vote For Your Favourite Music Video.
Caught a whiff of this from Robert Scoble. Go watch some vloggers in a contest to make a music video and then vote for your favourites (each IP address is allowed 2 votes). My favourites:
And if you're one of those who aren't sure what a "video blog" is supposed to be or do, go watch this awesomeness and tell me you aren't fired up about it by the end...
My real barrier here is time, there's just not enough of it to do all the research and all the fiddling that I want to do. So I'm hoping some stray MythTV guru will happen upon this blog entry and solve my problems for me. Read the rest of this entry ...
I have a bunch of cartoons and film shorts on my hard drive. Now that I've installed Suse, I have video/audio output to my TV/Stereo, and I've set up Myth, I wanted to figure out how to play a series of videos from a playlists (.pls) file. Here's how I did it. As a bonus, I also set up Myth with an option to randomize a playlist as well. Read the rest of this entry ...
There's been a lot of discussion around the blogosphere about some very prominent technophiles migrating from either MacOS or Windows to a Linux flavour of Operating System. The conversions are spurring probably premature speculation of whether Linux is about to hit the big time in terms of desktop deployments.
My main system at home is Windows 2000. I have been fairly happy with Windows 2000. In my experience it's the best OS that Microsoft has made thus far. I've had the same install for about 6 years (I have not had to re-install or re-format my system in all that time). While this says good things about stability, I don't think I have to convince anyone that boredom has long since set in. Additionally, and perhaps more practically, support for Windows 2000 will be ending sometime on the horizon (presumably when they deploy and entrench Vista), so I've started to consider my options. Read the rest of this entry ...