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Search for the Holy Grail of HandBrake Settings
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Search for the Holy Grail of HandBrake Settings

One of the most difficult things I’ve been trying to do lately is wrap my head around the advanced features of the popular video conversion utility HandBrake. My ultimate goal is to convert a massive stack of digital movies into a single file for each movie for the purpose of displaying on a big screen [...]

Bye, Bye 1&1
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Bye, Bye 1&1

Goodbye 1&1 web hosting. Our time is nearing its end.
It totally eludes me how such a large and apparently successful company can have so many problems. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the pure inability to create a new email address. Attempt after attempt to make a single email address, out of a [...]

Mr. Coke Man
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Mr. Coke Man

Mr. Coke Man, seriously now.
Found this sign taped to one of my dorm’s Coke machines.
“Coke Man
These machines, quite frankly, SUCK!
for real
I’ve lost at least $5 to Coca-Cola”
Kudos to the guy who put it up!

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Frustrations with Development

Over the winter break, I was able to work a good bit on my iPhone app. But what I realized over that break is that I’m not good at this at all. Things that take me hours should take minutes and sometimes the simplest concepts elude me for no apparent reason. I’m not a moron [...]

From the Ashes…
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From the Ashes…

From the ashes a new website emerges… So how did this happen?
It goes like this:
1. Feel bad for not posting in, like, forever.
2. Feel bad for continuing to not post.
3. Log in to post, finally.
4. Update Wordpress.
5. BOOM!
To be fair, it wasn’t Wordpress’ fault that my site came to ’splodin. Wordpress 2.9.1 wanted a newer [...]