Occupational Thoughts -

Before I go full rant I should say that I totally understand the upset caused by state propaganda. I’m writing this in response to a former comrade who clearly flinched at the notion. It offends their libertarian instinct.
I had that same knee-jerk reaction too, now after careful reflection and having read the first few chapters of this book, I’m reconsidering [...]

The traditional argument against Wikipedia goes a bit like this:
Wikipedia is a ‘web-site’, on the ‘internet’, I don’t understand it very well but apparently anyone can contribute to it. And since everyone on the internet is stupid then this ‘web-site’ must be full of lies.
Unfortunately the traditional media is full of people who are fearful of what [...]

Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures:

Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand’s philosophy. I don’t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do what [...]

This morning I watched the documentary ‘Outfoxed‘ by Robert Greenwald. It’s about how Fox News in the USA is not a fair & balanced media channel, that it’s full of lies and right-wing propaganda. I didn’t really need a documentary to tell me this because I knew already but it was insightful nevertheless.
Watching this comes a [...]

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 CPU [...]