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+The story continues at FebruaryBlog
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 == Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 ==
 
+=== Sun 27th ===
+
+==== Down Under ====
+
+Yesterday I had to clear my room, pack my stuff at OneCambridgeCenter, and
+say goodbye to many, many good friends and colleges.  I don't  even know when
+I'll be able to see them again.  Not exactly a happy day, you may have guessed.
+
+Today, after 22 hours of flight, I started to have visions.  At the baggage reclaim,
+I thought I was talking with the kernel god LinusTorvalds.  He said that userspace
+is easy and that he cannot exactly agree iwith some of the choices made in Python.
+We'd really get along if it wasn't just a dream :-)
+
+Later on, I reached the hotel and got into the elevator with a ginger guy
+that looked vaguely familiar.  I asked if he was going at LCA.
+
+ -- //Yes.//
+
+ -- //Are you a software developer?//
+
+ -- //Well... not primarily...//
+
+Blink!
+
+ -- //Oh, you must be JonathanCorbet, the editor of LinuxWeeklyNews!//
+
+ - //Indeed.//
+
+Today was a really exciting day!  I needed something like this to compensate,
+at least partially, for leaving Boston.
+
+----
+
+Hi Bernie! Just stepped here looking for the photos of XOs hanging from the ceiling (i wanted to show them to my father) and found you leaving!
+
+So, have a nice journey, enjoy conf.au and see you soon!
+
+-- PiroPiro
+
+=== Sat, 19th ===
+
+==== Another trip to NY ====
+
+I'm planning to go to NewYorkCity tomorrow with a bunch of friends.
+But this time I guess we'll catch a different transportation:
+we were booking the FungWah (aka ShittyBus), when ChrisBall came
+and looked at us funny.  "Are you sure?  Those buses have a habit
+of catching fire on the highway".
+
+Apparently, it is really true:
+
+  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fung_Wah_Bus_Transportation_Inc.#Safety
+
+=== Sun, 13th ===
+
+=== Bernie the rockstar ====
+
+If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better watch 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
+
+
+**Q:** why doesn't my browser play the link right away rather than asking me to download it? \\
+**A:** because my wiki doesn't support mime-magic yet
+
+**Q:** why don't you just let apache serve media files? \\
+**A:** because a CGI has no way to "handoff" a file to the web server once they've been invoked
+
+==== Food and Power ====
+
+Here's a stupid movie by SamuelKlein, ArjunSarwal and myself:
+
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerHigh.ogg]] - [62MB] OggTheora stream, quality 10
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.ogg]] - [26MB] OggTheora stream, quality 7
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerLow.ogg]] - [16MB] OggTheora stream, quality 5
+
+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/FoodAndPower.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! ====