== Bernie's brain backup of April 2009 ==
-=== April 21th - x264 ===
+=== April 21th ====
+
+==== Great temples everywhere ====
+
+==== x264 goodness ====
I re-encoded all videos from MJPEG, the crappy native format of my Canon camera, to x264 (aka MPEG4).
Firefox 3.1/3.5 still doesn't grok it with the ##video## tag, but I didn't have a
[[http://theora.org/|Theora]] encoder installed.
-=== April 20th - Shinkansen tour ===
+=== April 20th ===
+
+==== Best hostel ever ====
+
+The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/UtanoHostel|Utano hostel]] in Kyoto would rival many
+five star hotels I've seen. Sorry I couldn't take any photos in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen | Onsen]].
+
+Also have a look at the impressive [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Kyoto/ShinKyoto|Kyoto station]].
+
+==== Shinkansen tour ====
In a jounery report, the details of transportation are usually left out as uninteresting.
Except if one takes the fastest train in the world! We took the