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Convert mov to avi: Mov2Avi

I spent a long, long time trying to do this for free. I looked and tried lots and lots of freeware and open source. This is what finally worked. Audio (sound) converted too. April 7, 2007: Since the site’s down, I’ll save a copy of the text here. How to Convert QuickTime MOV Files This…Continue Reading…

WordPress has problems with correcting nested XHTML

WordPress was incorrectly “correcting” my HTML in my recent Digg this post. What I had to do to correct this is go to Options -> Writing-> uncheck WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically. I wonder if this fixes the embedding Flash problem as well or not.

emacs redo

emacs is awesome. Not only does it have infinite “undo”, but it also has infinite “redo”. But there’s no “redo” command. Redo is the same thing is undoing an undo. That’s a very logical way of looking at things.

April 1 is April Fool’s Day

The one day of the year on which I really feel good about pulling a good prank. You see, I’m not a prankster, but I love good (and harmless) fun. As does Google. Of course, it’s also a good time to release an amazing product, and get lots of free press for it (can you…Continue Reading…

the OC

the O.C. was filming on the USC campus today, near the bookstore and alumni park. they were pretending this was Brown University. I don’t watch the show, so I wouldn’t know why

There’s Space for a MySpace Competitor

I was reading a post at ensight and a lot of thoughts came to mind. I think the conclusion that the entire discussion points to is that there’s an unmet demand for a competitor to MySpace. Although Facebook is an excellent alternative, it’s not perfect. It’s targetted toward college students, and it doesn’t support blogging….Continue Reading…