I have been looking for a long time (10+ years) for a good video editor on the PC. And well my quest has come to an end. AVIDemux has come to my aid. This entirely FREE application was rooted from UNIX and then ported to both Windows and OSX. It rocks.

With encoding to almost any format, simple splits and joins. Plus special effects, and not the crap like twirls and such, but real filters like noise, deinterlace, and sharpend/smooth. I congratulate the authors of this software for a fine achievement. However they are still in heavy development, so I do recommend using the CVS versions…

Something very bad happened to the database on the gallery installation that we use. To the point that I had to delete the whole thing and start over. Probably good, and it cleaned out a lot of old data that was on there. Meanwhile jump over there and check out our halloween pics…

So the weirdest this has happened to me. I used to be part owner an ISP here in town, and at one point employed about 75 people. During the 5 year run, I would say that a good 150 to 200 people actually were employed there at some time.

It was a shithole, the wannabe corporate types made us wear shirt and tie, even to work under the floor tiles and running cables. Long hours and crappy pay. However it had some sort of “Vietnam” effect on all that passed thru the doors. To this day I still have people walk up to me, ask me if my name is Dave, and tell me of the wonderful times, and that it was the greatest place to work. However it sucked.

I made a lot of friends, and because of this current stupidity that we all had to endure together, I am still friends with a lot of them. They are now everywhere in the IT lands of Louisville, and most of them are doing well.

All that I ask is that if you walk up to me with great memories of a place long gone, offer me a position with the company that you are currently with, and pay me a very large salary for what it is worth.

That is all that I ask of the world, a little kind retribution.

So I haven’t posted to my blog in a while. Reason? Linux. I started using Linux as my desktop, and have been looking for various plugins, and etc for use. It seems that the underdog unix os is still lagging behind.

My biggest complaint right now is that Adobe has not released Flash 8 for Linux, better yet, they are not going to release it as they are now working on Flash 9 and will have a beta out this Fall. So if you run linux you are stuck with version 7. That sucks, Adobe sucks. It is like they have been sucking at the Mac and Windows tit for so long they have forgotten they are there for the users and not their competition agreements with the big guys.

Not to mention there is not a version of Photoshop for Linux, not that the Mac OSX verison would not take a month or so to convert. Bastards.

Do you like to read? Well, now you dont have to bother with those pesky books. Google now has ol’ Will in digital format,

Explore Shakespeare with Google

How broken are you? This simple test will let you know. Also check out their other “tests” they are hilarious.

OKCupid! The Personality Defect Test

This is pretty funny stuff, MC Hammer rulez.

YouTube – Evolution of Dance

Well, they are well on their way. I emailed Dr. Trucco, hopefully I will get a response, and they are curing up some diabetics right now

ScienceDaily: HealthWrap: New hope for diabetes cure

The Australian’s are closer, but they are looking to cure type 2, that is caused by getting fat and lazy. Doh!

Gene find lifts Diabetes cure hopes – Victoria – Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au