Making little things out of big things
As proof that sometimes randomly browsing the web while procrastinating from boring work (Saturday night year-end accounting and tax organizing, for instance) can sometimes be useful, a web trick: Flickr engineer “schill” found out that in order to natively re-size images on the client side without making them look like 8-bit dog vomit in MSIE7, [...]
rotate and auto-level video with mencoder
The proper CLI incantation to get mplayer/mencoder to clockwise rotate, apply an autolevels filter and re-sample an AVI video is: mencoder dscf5432.avi -vf rotate=1,pp=al -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1:bitrate=687 -oac copy -o out.avi
it’s heavy, but is it good?
I always knew there was something I didn’t like about obsessive logging
gut checks
8 really scary predictions from FORTUNE Marc Ambinder in Atlantic: It’s quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama’s transition teams these days
