== Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 ==
+=== Sun, 13th ===
+
+=== Bernie the rockstar ====
+
+If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better see this first:
+
+ * [[BernieIronMaiden.ogg]] - [1.8MB] if you have the free OggTheora codec
+ * [[BernieIronMaiden.mov]] - [3.6MB] if you're stuck with proprietary QuickTime codecs
+ * nothing - [0MB] if you're stuck with the proprietary MediaPlayer or RealPlayer codecs
+
+==== Food and Power ====
+
+Here's a stupid movie by SamuelKlein, ArjunSarwal and myself:
+
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerLow.ogg]] - [16MB] OggTheora stream, quality 5
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerHigh.ogg]] - [26MB] OggTheora stream, quality 7
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.ogg]] - [62MB] OggTheora stream, quality 10
+
+If your computer cannot play the above links, you should really consider installing
+a free media player, or just switching to Linux which comes with all the free media
+players and codecs out of the box. Meanwhile, here's a workaround:
+
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.avi]] - [103MB] original AVI stream from our shitty camera
+
+These also prove the quality of the OggTheora codec. After seeing this, I think
+I'd recommend using it for its technical advantages in addition to its legal advantages.
+
+In producing these movies, I found out that:
+
+ * mencoder has bad support for ogg-theora
+ * transcode kinda sucks
+ * ffmpeg seems the best command-line encoder of the three I tried
+ * The easiest solution if all you need is encoding anything to Theora is ffmpeg2theora.
+ All you have to do is:
+ {{{
+ ffmpeg2theora FoodAndPower.avi
+ }}}
+
+
+=== Sat, 12th ===
+
+==== Cow power! ====
+
+My good friend ArjunSarwal recently made the [[http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/26/0541205 | Slashdot front page]]
+with his story about [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cow_Power| Cow Power]]!
+
+=== Fri, 11th ===
+
+==== Crank, Crank! ====
+
+Today we got this pleasant surprise.
+
+See the movie: [[OlpcCrank/StephenReillyCranking.mov]].
+The guy cranking is DanielDrake, Gentoo kernel maintainer
+and wireless guru.
+
+[[OlpcCrank/ArjunCrankingSmall.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking]]
+[[OlpcCrank/ArjunCranking2Small.jpg | ArjunSarwal cranking]]
+[[OlpcCrank/StephenCrankingSmall.jpg | StephenReilly cranking]]
+[[OlpcCrank/StephenCranking2Small.jpg | StephenReilly cranking]]
+
+Larger versions of these pics are available at OlpcCrank.
+
=== Sat 5th ===
==== The little computer that just won't die! ====
[[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChildSmaller.jpg]]
-Thanks to MicheleConsoleBattilana for providing a free copy of
+Look [[OneAmigaPerChild/OneAmigaPerChild | here]] for additional details.
+A big thankyou to MicheleConsoleBattilana for providing a free copy of
AmigaForever, a fine tribute to the coolest platform ever!
=== Thu 3rd ===
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