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I’m sure I actually had a great opinionated post to make earlier but then again usually I can’t be bothered to type any of these ideas up anymore. Thanks to the video blog is typing thing just isn’t needed any more. Well it is seen, as the site needs some actual content but anyway to move on.

I was flicking around the random DVDs that are currently available on Play.com. I saw an advert last night for the special edition of the Shawshank Redemption but the film did go on and that’s without six hours of bonus material to watch. It’s a cool buy although it’s not that high on my list.

What is on my list of stuff to get though is one of the Donnie Darko DVDs. Originally I was going for the original which had loads of extras on (Rather than Prism edition which just sucks as it’s the normal DVD without any of the extras) although now there is a directors cut – I love directorial indulgence, I will post more about that later.

Anyway the Director’s Cut has a load of new extras on and the audio commentary has been redone for the directors cut edition so it looks like a pretty cool purchase. Resident Evil is also a nice purchase now that it has plenty of extras. That said it has had them for about a year lol.

You know I actually beleive that a Day of Chris could make the world a better place.

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Outside the front of my house there is a fountain of water spraying up from the water main. Best guess is they are letting it out to let the pressure out for work doing down the system at some point considering there is a a guy in a drainage company can parked near it reading a magazine. Anyway having nothing better to do I grabbed my camcorder.

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Well now, I am currently beginning to start the university applications process so I have a lot of moaning about the system. I’m just getting started but some people had their applications off almost four weeks ago. In fact the university could have already decided to take them – don’t believe them when they tell you it isn’t first come first served.

Second of course is that the first year for a-levels is just to mess around. And yet it is these grades and your predicted grades which will get you into the universities that you are applying for – so most of us are doomed from the start. Although luckily they will be getting round to changing that.

To continue
the moan, I don’t know what I really want to do now.

Anyway this
is like a two day thing lol. I wrote half it on Wednesday and it is now
Saturday. I went to the Leeds Met open day today which was a bit of a bust to
begin with but the multimedia course looks quite good.

Anyway as I’m
not really sure what I was moaning about (not because there isn’t anything to
moan about but because there is so much it could have been so many things) I am
going to go ahead and end it here. My tip of the day – get a job ;).

It’s Friday night, I have emails to check, customers to answer, websites to update, other work to do and all I can think about it crawling into a little ball and waking up around Christmas time.

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"Beauty is fleeting, but a rent-controlled
apartment overlooking the park is forever." If your tired of regular poletics why not vote for Carrie from Sex and the City. Check out VoteCarrie.org. Also, Chris’s video blog commentary on it:

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Ever wondered what a 60 second tour of the new Rawpulse looks like? Grabbing a computer, Chris and Carl bring it to life.

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Well now it’s time for the first ever video blog so let’s get this funky thing underway. For the first video blog, the first one we didn’t video over anyway, Chris and Carl randomly discuss stuff in a starewell.

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Lol it only seems like moments ago that I was posting about how the video blog would be around eventually. Well as so often happens, once things get going they get going fast and I found myself with encoded video on it’s way, uploading to the Nerd Federation server. Soon you will be able to watch the video in all it’s glory.

Of course posts are likely to be limited. It is still much more of a effort to make a video entry than it is to do a classic written entry, also we need arranging and such as rawpulse and ceon don’t have a digital camera (or so they say lol). Still it should be a pretty cool addition to Nerd Federatation.

As I mentioned in the previous post, the video has been encoded in Windows Media video format (version 8 I beleive). I need to stop playing right into Microsoft’s hands but it is just so easy.

Anyway it is multistream so no matter what connection you have you should hbe handed over a connection speed that suits. That said, I have never really tested a multistream on a Linux server so I am just guessing it will work ;).

Well now, after many problems we may have a solution after all. As I think I mentioned before, I was looking into doing a video blog but was held back by not being able to upload video from my camcorder. But this morning, I got my new firecable (sent via Airmail and everything) so I can now upload video again.

As it happens, I actually have uploaded the first two posts. Well the second and third actually as I accidentually videoed over my original post so I will just pretend that never happened and begin with the two that me and Carl did the first time I brought my camcorder in once we decided to video blog. Well I say we.

Anyway as the moment I am downloading, or was downloading Windows Media Encoder. I have the Windows Media plugin for Adobe Premiere but I wanted something that would batch encode all my files so that I could do them all at once as there could be a lot of video files.

As for the technical on the site, I will probably just create a second category along with the general that will hold the video blogs. Although I am also tempted to create a new blog or even develop a custom script so who knows what the future will bring.