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RDF explained in a way that makes sense to XML people
RDF explained in a way that makes sense to XML people
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Sunset
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GarageBand: Black & White X 5
My version of Black & White X 5 by Bill Conti. I bought GarageBand as part of the iLife package, more to get the latest iMovie. But last night I fiddled and lifted this song from the Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack. It’s a piece for piano - so I tried to play it on the piano - and then discovered it’s actually a piece for five pianos. I don’t have a MIDI keyboard so I used MidiKeys . Follow the link to hear it, 1:10 minutes. LAME encoded. Sigh, the second piano is way too muddy. I’d have to go back in and manually edit the AUMatrixReverb to make it work right.
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New Map of North America
Apparently, instead of taking over Canada, Americans now want to join us.
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Al Qa Qaa satellite images
I have located the satellite imagery of the Al Qa Qaa that I was looking for while writing this timeline at Wikipedia .
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today I learned about MPEG-4
First, it’s nowhere near as simple as I thought. Second, it’s nowhere near as complex as I thought. Well, here’s how it works. MPEG-4 is a way to define a codec. So, when you go into quicktime and it says, save as MPEG4, you’re not saving as MPEG4, you’re saving as “Apple’s MPEG-4 codec”. Which, by the way, sucks compared to basically any other option . There’s actually a whole bunch of MPEG-4 codecs, including Divx, Xvid, 3ivx, and a whole bunch of high end professional codecs that cost a lot of money. In theory, any MPEG-4 player can play any MPEG-4 codec. In practice, not so much. But also, in practice, VLC and MPlayer can play them all.
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What's your radio name?
Mine’s Sierra Whiskey …
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W believes
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Book-a-minute SF/F
Book-a-minute SF/F Read a science fiction or fantasy book in one minute. Pretty damned funny. This summary of “God Emperor of Dune” is good:
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programmer and artist
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