http://ryanwick.net So much tech, so little time. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:20:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The reports are starting to come in that Toshiba is giving up and killing HD DVD. This really sucks, but with the news the last few weeks that Netflix, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. are either abandoning HD DVD or strongly favoring Blu-Ray, it shouldn't be a big surprise that Toshiba would ... http://ryanwick.net/2008/02/16/rip-hd-dvd-2006-2008/ Last night while watching The Daily Show, where the first segment was on Gore's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, I noticed a familiar image used in one of the graphics. Several of the websites we've created (I work at Special Collections at OSU Libraries) feature one or both of ... http://ryanwick.net/2007/10/16/pauling-nobel-medal-image-on-the-daily-show/ On the first weekend in February, Evelyn and I had the opportunity to spend a full day in San Francisco, following a week in San Jose. Evelyn was on a business trip to the SNIA Winter Symposium, and I was able to tag along for the ride, working from the ... http://ryanwick.net/2007/02/17/a-day-in-san-francisco/ I've been using Last.fm (formerly Audioscrobbler, hence the title) for most of the year now, and just tonight I passed 11,111 songs (I figured this extremely arbitrary milestone was as good as any). I'm by no means among the most active users, but that's a decent amount of music. It ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/12/11/over-11111-songs-scrobbled/ I'm a little behind the times, and I've had the Live Starter Kit and wireless adapter for far too long. The setup was fairly painless, with the exception of the subscription code scratch off. Parts of the numbers and letters started to come off before we got all of the ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/10/31/finally-on-xbox-live/ I'm finally getting around to processing and posting some video clips to some of our websites. Recently we copied all of our VHS tapes to DVDs, so I can now rip video clips from a DVD instead of a VHS tape, as we've done in the past. It had been ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/09/27/flaskmpeg-is-a-great-little-app/ One of these days I'll get around to designing my own theme for this site. Until that happens, I switched to a different theme. Not a huge change, but this one is still clean and I was getting bored with the default theme. http://ryanwick.net/2006/08/09/new-theme-for-now/ I started using Vim as my primary editor a few months ago and have been keeping a list of tips and tricks on a private wiki. Since most of the listings are gleaned from other websites, I figured I'd make the list public so that someday someone might find something ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/07/26/vim-tips-page-added/ I finally got around to installing Gallery on my site, and what better way to start it off than with a ton of kitty pictures? There will be many more photos (of more than just kitties) uploaded shortly. For now, the full files are uploaded and available as the largest ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/06/11/gallery-is-now-live/ I installed Gregarius tonight and successfully set it up to replace Bloglines. The install is public and at ryanwick.net/feeds A few minor things were more difficult than they probably should have been, and there were (and still are) problems with a couple feeds, but overall it was a smooth transfer. I ... http://ryanwick.net/2006/05/08/bloglines-is-old-and-busted-gregarius-is-the-new-hotness/