William Adams' WebLogEsoterica for a new MillenniumMy Media Muscle Machine Might Make Masculine Movies- March 22, 2004 I didn't actually watch the whole super bowl. I watched some of the first half, and walked away as soon as the half time show started to make a phone call. The call lasted through the half time show, and pretty much through the second half, and I got busy doing other things anyway. Luckily, I taped the whole 5 hours though. Tonight, I'm actually exercising a whole other aspect of my media explorations. I'm taking the tape of the super bowl, and saving it digitally. .http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/21/93704.aspx I think I know why computers don't work, that is, epistemologically speaking of course- March 22, 2004 As Jimmy Carter used to do, I consult my daughter Yasmin on many an issue of great and deep importance. The subject this weekend was why computers crash, have bugs, and all that sort of stuff. I made a bold statement because I wanted to see where we could take it. I said &8220;they have problems because they have no sense of identity&8220;. A while ago, she raised the question &8220;Who is the 'I' that says 'I'&8220;. We've gone into philosophical and religious...http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/21/93697.aspx Legacy Lags Listlessly Lurching towards the future- March 8, 2004 What is &8220;legacy data&8221; I thought about this because at work we talk about 'legacy data' all the time. As if the data being stored in the future will be current, and the data stored today is old crufty and undesirable. Having installed another 120Gb in my machine, I rapidly filled it up with some more legacy DVD data. Storing the data itself is relatively painless. A full DVD takes anywhere from 7-20 minutes to archive, depending. Then there's that extra...http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/07/85773.aspx Archived Media Makes Marvelous Movies- March 5, 2004 I've archived a large number of DVDs to my hard disk. If you have non-copyrighted material, say weddings and whatnot, on DVD, you can use DVDDecrypter to store the content on your hard disk. It has this neat mode (ISO Read) that pretty much just copies the entire disk to your machine as an ISO image. You could then write that image file out to a DVD Writer, and you'd have a duplicate of your most precious wedding DVD. The interesting thing to me though, is the other things you.http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/04/84287.aspx The Prince - Presents Positively Passionate Political Platitudes- March 4, 2004 Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince Penguin Classics - ISBN 0-14-044752-0 I've been reading this of late. It's interesting. This Machiavelli guy (1469-1527) is talking about statecraft, and makes many observations as to how things have come about in the Europe that he lived in. Lots of tales of Papal pontiffs, politicians, patriarchs, and the like. If it were an operate, there would be many patricians in tights singing in Italian with plenty of blood and guts. It's...http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/03/83613.aspx Coax Capabilities Come to Computer- March 3, 2004 So, This past weekend, I pushed further ahead with my home office rearrangement project. Having detreasured the downstairs, and having move my center of computing upstairs, there was just one more thing to move. I left one of the computers downstairs (the media archiving PC) because that's where the cable was running. There, and into my bedroom. I really had no other reason for having the PC down there other than the fact that the cable was available down there. So, I...http://blogs.msdn.com/wadams/archive/2004/03/02/83106.aspx |