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I have been using Handbrake to re-encode my videos when I want to watch them on my HTC Incredible Droid.

These are the settings being published on the Android forums:

HTC Incredible Settings for Handbrake:

Container: MP4

[Picture]
Width: 800
Keep Aspect Ratio: Checked
Anamorphic: None
Cropping: Automatic

[Video Filters]
All off all unchecked

[Video]
Video Codec: H.264 (x264)
Framerate (FPS): same as source
2-Pass Encoding: unchecked

Avg Bitrate (kbps): 1500 (may change this on next encode)

[Audio]
Source: Select your language
Audio Codec: AAC (faac)
Mixdown: Automatic
Samplerate: Auto
Bitrate: 160
DRC: 0

Here is a video tour of my shop, with stills following the video.

Here are the stills of my shop, view them on flickr for descriptions of each picture:

I have a rather large media collection and wanted to start utilizing My Movies to catalog all of them. The interesting part with My Movies is that every movie must be in its own directory. Since I have too many to want to do this manually, I decided to write a script to do this for me. It creates the directory from the name of the file and moves the file into the directory it just created. After it is done doing that, it then scans the directories to see whether or not the movies have been added to the My Movies database. If it doesn’t detect that the movie was added, it creates a list and displays it with notepad. As you add the movies into the database, every new scan will not show the movie after it was added.

Please feel free to modify – let me know if you think I can enhance this somehow.

Download – Or view the full script below

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Mandy and I wanted a small plant stand for one of our plants in the house. I figured it would be a fun project to do this weekend and was able to knock it out, sans the final finishing coat. Here is a pictoral of my construction. I tried to remember to take as many pictures as possible, but got wrapped up as I moved through the project.

The Glue Up:

Boards for the Aprons and Legs

The aprons and legs

Tapering the legs:

Tapered Legs:

Setting up the Mortiser:

Mortised Leg:

Gluing up the aprons and legs:

Legs and Aprons joined:

Sanded Table Top:

Grain Filler before dye:

Grain filler drying on table top:

Finished Plant Stand:

These are videos and pictures from the Alfa Romeo Club’s Road America event in October. The first set is of only Alfa Romeos. If you want to see larger versions or order prints, click on the picture and then choose to view on flickr.

I finally have gotten around to finishing up multiple aspects of my photos from Italy and am now ready to post them here.

Here are the first 10 pictures of my set:

The rest are sitting up on Flickr…

View the Full Italy Set!

If you are interested in taking a Tour of my trip in Google Earth, please feel free to follow my link. This link is auto generated with the latest info from Flickr. Because of this and the amount of photos, the time to create the KML file is between 30 – 45 seconds. Please be patient while the file is generated. It will be well worth your wait! Also, don’t forget to double click on “Play Me” when the file opens in Google Earth.

If you don’t have Google Earth, you can download it here.

Mandy and I were greeted by a deer the other night and much to our surprise, not too long after the first deer was out, another one popped out! It looks to be a doe and it’s fawn. These are a few of the photos I took.

Here is the set of photos from the MS Walk we did a couple of weekends back.

View MS Walk 2009 in a larger map

Well I finally decided to go back to flickr with my photos. There isn’t a better repository or way to show them than with flickr. I’ll do an integration into this site, but will not host the actual images off of this site. It should be a fun php project to do as I have not done one in a couple of years! I think the new D90 has inspired me!
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