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Thursday, Aug 31 2006

Thu

Been following the US Open, Nadal made it through to the third round. Let's see how he does, he hasn't played very well here in the past. He is now ranked #2 in the world.



Agassi is playing today, gotta root for him, he is about my age .

Could not fall asleep so I went out for a bit last night. Stopped by Gaslight. Actually, a couple US Open players were hanging out there, did not recognize them, probably seed 700th seed or something. One was playing today but I forgot his name. Colleen was working, covering for somebody else. She told me about her new movie. She even has an IMDB page now.

Wednesday, Aug 30 2006

Timberlake

This is slightly embarrassing, but I guess I have Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back" stuck in my head. Oh well. I shall blame it all on the evil big media influence, they are alienating my brain

If you want to join in, here is the song:

Sexy Back

VirtualDub

I've been using VirtualDub for so long that I guess I take it for granted. Today was the last time, I was having a problem with an AVI file so I just imported into VirtualDub and re-saved it as a DivX compressed AVI. It was 700 Mb file that MediaPlayer could not open (missing index, corrupted key frames, etc.) After running it through VirtualDub in a few minutes it became a 320 Mb that opened right away, perfect.

VirtualDub is a video capture / processing utility for Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It doesn' have a fancy interface, but it is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

Wed eve

OK, Wed is done, 2 more days and the weekend is here, and a long one too, very good. Still dark and sort of rainy all day. They had a bbq ribs special at Ruthy's today, so I even had lunch . Got emails from my brother and my parents, everybody's doing very well.

I guess I am almost hungry again. I may have gained a bit of weight these past few weeks, may have to exercise a bit. I talked to the furniture people earlier and the top of my armoire is still on order, they said within a week or two, let's see.

Haven't heard much from Bill these past few days, he can't be up to anything good .

Wed morning

One more day, here we go. Got a message from my brother this morning, he and Alicia are doing very well. Kinda warm in my place, I think it's cooler outside. I have Photoshop batch processing images and generating thumbnails and stuff. As I've mentioned before, the newer versions are slower at it than older ones, not a surprise. Also, from version 5, whenever it finds an issue with an image, it stops and tells you about it (image may be truncated or incomplete, do you want to continue?) - of course I want to continue! And I haven't found a way to skip that dialog. If you are processing 500 images, and number 50 has an issue, it gets stuck until you say "OK, continue" - very silly. Oh well.

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