Archives: Geek

It’s time, don’t you think? Time to digitize all the old 8mm video tapes to preserve them for all eternity. Or at least get them up to the next generation of storage media. Eternity is a bit longer. We’ll deal with that as we go through time. I took a good look around trying to • Read More »

In case you were wondering (riiiiiight), I use Windows Movie Maker to edit the videos you see on the site. It allows someone to, rather easily, add titles, transitions, additional audio, etc. One of the things I hadn’t noticed before was the ability for Windows Movie Maker to publish the project as a 16×9 video. • Read More »

I uncovered a flaw in what I’ve been doing on the video front thus far. DRAT. The video camera that we have has the ability to record in 16×9 format. I’ve had this switched ON from the get-go, but what I’ve seen up until this point looked as though it wasn’t coming through in wide-screen • Read More »

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. <Pat here – The above post came directly from Flickr. Kinda cool, actually – Instead of going in and creating a new post directly in here, I can upload a photo to Flickr (which I would probably do anyway) and post the photo • Read More »

Proving that it’s dangerous to “try out” a new piece of software, I innocently started playing with a free photomosaic image generator. Why? Couldn’t tell you. But it’s kind of cool. It uses a library of images to create a mosaic of another image you specify. In the example below, I used their stock library • Read More »