June 20, 2008: Introducing HandBrake Helper

Oreo was incredibly tired as Dominica dragged him off to daycare this morning. He was giving me the big, sad puppy dog eyes saying “save me daddy” which he does when he really, really wants to just stay home and sleep. He doesn’t know that on days when he goes to daycare that I get …

May 3, 2008: Working All Day

Andrew West (aka Loopy) is a top ten finalist in the national programming competition the “Dice Tech Challenge” for his Spyhop IHOP Finding application. So head over to the Dice Tech Challenge Voting site and cast you vote for Andy’s SpyHop website. Here is the link directly to the voting page, vote for IHOPs, #3: …

April 30, 2008: Site Down Most of the Day

Our hosting service at Burst was out most of the day so people coming to visit SGL were mostly presented with a blank screen all day.  To make matters worse that meant that my email and many other things were gone all day as well.  We are really getting fed up with the amateur network …

Handbrake Settings

Now that I am getting comfortable with Handbrake and its settings I have noticed the dearth of information online about peoples’ preferred settings. I feel that this information is very valuable and so have decided to share some baseline information about my own settings. Unless otherwise stated I do my conversions to the .mp4 MPEG4 …

February 24, 2008: Moreso is in the Dictionary

Shortly after going [back] to bed last night Oreo decided that he needed to do his now common living room bone check. Never any sleep for me. So it was around two in the morning when I finally got off to bed. I got up this morning and was paged so I had to get …