Category Archives: organization

I tend to bounce between projects quite often, and recently I’ve been back at work on converting video into something that I can import into iTunes so it can play on the AppleTV in the living room. My end game … Continue reading →

I wound up back at Ikea picking up the last pieces I convinced myself that I needed, and now I have one side of an office that is in pretty good shape and two other rooms of the house that … Continue reading →

It’s only been a few days since I got the mad idea to wage war on the AVI format by converting every such file on my server to nice AppleTV-friendly .m4vs and then importing them into iTunes to add art … Continue reading →

My war on AVI is going astonishingly well, thanks to a piece of software called ffmpeg and a few minutes spend writing batch files. ffmpeg is a tool that I’m scarcely scratching the surface of what I COULD do with … Continue reading →

I’ve had an AppleTV for a little over two years now.  That is, one of the original Intel-based AppleTVs, the ones that got dropped like a hot rock when they released the ARM-based AppleTVs much more recently. I have one … Continue reading →

One thing about being a college student: your life is measured in terms, broken up by occasional seasonal vacations. We just finished winter break here, and now everyone is grudgingly heading back to school. Winter break is just about three … Continue reading →

I made some revisions to my workstation and realized that I hadn’t done a properly camwhory post in a while, so here you go. Big changes this time around: I mounted rails behind the desk and then mounted my monitor … Continue reading →