• Archive for August 25th, 2005

    Viewer produced DVD commentary tracks

    by  • 8/25/2005 • movies • 1 Comment

    I’m that guy that the film industry markets to when they put together good commentary tracks on the DVDs they sell me. I’m a big fan of hearing the stories of filming while I’m watching the film with the regular film’s dialogue is displayed in subtitles. I especially enjoy the panel style commentaries like the [...]

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    Firefox Horizontal Scrolling on New Powerbooks

    by  • 8/25/2005 • geek • 1 Comment

    Initially, I was happy to have the trackpad on the new 12″ Powerbook provide back and forward navigation through Firefox’s browser history. It struck me as a Good Idea. That is, until I realized just how obscenely sensitive Firefox was being to horizontal movement. I would be scrolling down a long page, reading, or writing [...]

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    VIFF announces the first of the films

    by  • 8/25/2005 • movies • 0 Comments

    Vancouver International Film Festival has just announced a handful of the films slated to screen at this year’s event. They have specifically mentioned two programs, with the remaining films to be announced at a media conference in mid September. The VIFF press release announces two specific programs of films that they will be featuring; American [...]

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    Cross-posting success

    by  • 8/25/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Well, posting to MySpace was pretty much a non-event; it just worked with no fight at all. Now I have the LiveJournal account and the MySpace account taking my posts from the WordPress site. For the LiveJournal types, this gives you a choice between full feed (xinitsblog) that hasn’t been importing correctly (because LJ can’t [...]

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    Adventures in cross-posting; LJ works now

    by  • 8/25/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    It appears the initial problem with cross-posting to my LiveJournal account was something with importing user images, or moods, or something else… I don’t care about any of that stuff; I’m just looking to have my posts here at the bankrupt artist show up on my LiveJournal account. The next step after that is to [...]

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