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Friday, October 7th

It's funny...

Nicole
10.07.11 @ 04:23 PM CST
listening to: the wurring of my fan
feeling: you don't wanna go there

Because I've been thinking about posting a lot lately - like when I missed call Jon over the weekend to wish him a happy b'day, I thought about posting. And then when I head about Steve Jobs passing away I thought about posting and I just so happened to log on now and read that we are taking it down - which is fine by me. I barely have time to do much other than work and be sick so . . . it was fun and useful but I to think it has served its purpose and it is time to move on to something else.

Wednesday, September 14th

Sundown

Jocelyn
09.14.11 @ 11:54 AM CST

Sounds fine with me-I do read what is posted though-I get an email rss feed thing.

This is my last blog post on here-Hasta La Vista Baby. If any one wants to know my thoughts-call me. Or sweety, you can just talk to me at home.

Tuesday, September 13th

Considering Sundowning This Site...

Jon
09.13.11 @ 10:12 AM CST
feeling: Fine.

So...I don't write on here anymore, and no one else ever writers anything useful, so I'm considering sundowning (read: taking down) this blog.

I would replace it with a one-page site that lists all the other family projects (my two companies, Design Reading List, blah blah blah, and a new site I'm considering to concentrate on thought leadership stuff for design that doesn't really belong here, or on ohTwentyone, etc...).

So...unless anyone objects, I'm going to take this site down in a month. If history is any indication, no one will ever read this entry. ;-)

Wednesday, August 24th

Fall already?

Nicole
08.24.11 @ 07:08 AM CST
feeling: sick

So I know that according to the calendar it is not fall already but no-one told my allergies that so according to my nose it is infact fall already.

Wednesday, July 20th

One more reason to hate Flash™

Jon
07.20.11 @ 09:01 AM CST
listening to: Eureka
feeling: Fine like wine...

In short: It's make bullshit acceptable.

Hulu aggregates a ton of content from a ton of sources and producers, and the Flash Video Encoder does the heavy lifting of transcoding different video codecs into something that we all can use.

Some content sources (Sony's Crackle, I'm looking at you) make the Flash plugin go all Memory-Mad and max out my video card, system memory, CPU and GPU.

Other content sources play really nice with the rest of my system. I can run them full screen on my 30" Cinema Display with no lag, no frame drops and no syncing issues; or I can run them full screen on a second monitor while I get some work done on my 30".

What's the difference?

Really, I don't know. I suspect that it's because the Flash Video Encoder is correcting some really badly encoded video that my system would otherwise no play.

"So...what's wrong with that?" you might ask, "At least you can play the video!"

The problem is that because people can watch the video, and don't understand the problem it's causing, they'll never let the offending content providers know that whatever video codec they're using is causing problems.

If the video doesn't work at all, they probably would have caught it themselves, and if not, the hordes of people who want to watch the archive of NewsRadio on Crackle would complain loud enough to get them to correct it.

As it stands, the only people who realize what's going on are anti-Flash super-nerds like me.

Thanks Flash, for making the mediocre internet possible. ;-)