Occupational Thoughts -

This site’s domain expires on 14/09/2010, I think it’s also the time around which I’ll have to renew my hosting. I’ve been thinking about this, a lot. For one renewing this hosting & domain would be somewhere in the region of £70, however I look at it I always get the feeling the price has [...]

So far we’ve had 2 days of school off due to the snow, but it won’t last which is why I’m writing this now. I took the opportunity to finish one machinima. Actually that’s wrong, I didn’t finish it properly, but I improvised with the footage I had and finished it the best I could. There was [...]

Today it is the 25th of December, and we’re going off to Derbyshire Staffordshire later on this morning. But before we do, here’s my vlog on the arguments for piracy: It took me ten takes, I was using a sheet of notes and after the 6th one I dropped that and wrote out a script. It’s [...]

Last weekend I cycled out to Maplin to buy a microphone, I insisted on not buying a fuzzy desktop one so ended up with a black metal beast: It records in stereo, and produces excellently clear sound. Nobody complains that my “microphone has gone all crackly” on TF2 anymore.

This post is about video editing, it may be boring for some people, but bear with me. I have encountered some problems with editing MP4 files in the H.264 video format and AAC audio format from my Flip camcorder. These problems occur on the suite I use: Serif MoviePlus X3 Takes epic amounts of processing power, the [...]

Just to say that I’m pretty busy right now, I have mountains of video to edit, homework deadlines approaching and a talk on town planning to deliver at the SWP branch meeting on Wednesday. I did go to the Rage Against New Labour rally in Brighton yesterday. It was sunny, nobody got angry and we were [...]

This is my first post hosted on this new server. To clarify what happened while I was not blogging, I spent at least three days bickering over layouts, there’s an annoying cap on file uploads which I fixed by editing a .ini file, at the same time I launched and nurtured a new blog for [...]