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Malay wedding ambiance.

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:21:27 +0800

Malay wedding ambiance.

Company Karaoke bonding x2

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:22:42 +0800

Company Karaoke bonding x2

Authoring a DVD-Audio on the Mac

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:11:31 +0800

If you want to compile multiple audio CDs to one disk that you can play on a regular DVD player, you can create a DVD-Audio (DVD-A). It’s especially useful to group CDs that have a short play time (around 30 mins). One DVD-A can hold about 550 mins at CD quality (44.1khz).

To make them on the Mac, download the free application Burn here:

http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Choose the Audio tab, then select DVD-Audio; Drag files over from iTunes or the Finder; reorder if you wish and burn the disk.

To conserve the CD audio quality, make sure your source audio files are not lossy compressed by using AIFF/FLAC/ALAC/WAV formats instead of MP3/M4A/etc… Many tools help you to rip your CDs at full quality (iTunes, Max, … or XLD, my favorite: http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html).

Switching to homebrew

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:34:56 +0800

If you want to install CLI tools on MacOS X, I recommend Homebrew:

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

You will have to remove Fink/MacPort first if you installed them previously. Don’t forget to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.

For updated versions of tools already installed (like rsync in my case), you need to get the Homebrew formulas from here:

https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt

Extracting DVD/Bluray without quality loss (re-encoding)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:44:05 +0800

Using MakeMKV (available for Mac and Windows) you can easily extract tracks from encrypted Blurays/DVDs to MKV files. The interesting bit about this software is that no encoding is done. Eg, for DVDs, it preserves the MPEG2 stream intact. You can latter transcode it if you want (for file size reduction) but you will lose quality in the process.

http://www.makemkv.com/download/

MKV is a open/free format that can be read on all computers and many A/V devices.

merlin: Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:21:58 +0800

merlin:

Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be way, WAY harder to buy a Norwegian Black Metal album with your phone at 9:15 on a Thursday night.

Try THAT shit with yr StarTAC, smartass.

"When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just put the buildings in...."

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:19:27 +0800

“When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just put the buildings in. They did not put in any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and built the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass.”

- Larry Wall.

Such a wonderful idea.

"Procrastination is your brain trying to tell you something."

Tue, 31 May 2011 14:02:58 +0800

“Procrastination is your brain trying to tell you something.”

- Merlin Mann on Back to Work #17

"I believe that in the first place it is an ethical question from the human point of view to..."

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:44:25 +0800

“I believe that in the first place it is an ethical question from the human point of view to celebrate death as an instrument of resolution of a problem.”

- Elias Jaua - Venezuelan vice president.

"When you see a good mover, look for a better one."

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:15:52 +0800

“When you see a good mover, look for a better one.”

- Emanuel Lasker

Beautiful Shadows over Camelot “board”.

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:06:18 +0800

Beautiful Shadows over Camelot “board”.

Apple Data Center

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:54:43 +0800

Dan Benjamin from 5by5 network has devised a new corollary to Godwin’s law of Hitler analogies: As Apple discussions grow longer, the probability that someone will invoke the North Carolina data center approaches one.

“Alive, we will stay, even without our homes.”

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:33:00 +0800

“Alive, we will stay, even without our homes.”

Sendai 2011

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:38:51 +0800

According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the earthquake’s enormous strength shifted the Earth’s axis by 25 centimeters (9.8 in). This deviation led to a number of small planetary changes, including the length of a day and the tilt of the Earth. The speed of the Earth’s rotation increased, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds due to the redistribution of Earth’s mass.

Look dad! I built a fort! Miscellaneous Game Accessory | Image |...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:31:34 +0800

Look dad! I built a fort!

Miscellaneous Game Accessory | Image | BoardGameGeek

elspethjane: Ever wonder what 320,000 firecrackers look like? ...

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:29:27 +0800

elspethjane:

Ever wonder what 320,000 firecrackers look like? Well here’s your answer.

elspethjane: Cats sleeping in cup hats.

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:24:33 +0800

elspethjane:

Cats sleeping in cup hats.

"When people ask you when are you getting engaged or married, when are you having your first child,..."

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:11:09 +0800

“When people ask you when are you getting engaged or married, when are you having your first child, etc, in some ways, sometimes, what that they mean is:
Why haven’t you accepted the level of obligation that I’m unhappy with yet? Why are you still happy?”

- Merlin Mann on the fine 5by5 podcast Back To Work.

CNY lion dance

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:00:18 +0800

CNY lion dance

About Dominion cards prices

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:39:33 +0800

Isn’t (some particular card) too powerful/crappy/cheap/expensive?

Generally speaking, no. All the cards have been extensively playtested and there is almost no chance that the designer chose a specific wording or cost without having a good reasoning behind it. Some cards often appear too powerful because the players make them seem that way by focusing heavily on the strategies which favor those particular cards, or simply by perceiving their effect as something that has a much larger impact on the game than it really does (Village being the most common example, being a card which most beginners consider being “too good” for the cost of 3). However, certain cards tend to dominate in certain kingdom sets and with certain number of players (especially in combination with some other kingdom cards which complement them, e.g. the Warehouse+Treasure Map combo), which is an unavoidable side-effect of the variability aspect of the game. In fact, many good players will argue that recognizing what those cards are in any particular game setup effectively IS the game.

A lot of other Dominion goodness here