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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Adobe hands On2 a fat wad of cash in the form of proprietary video codec support.
As a form of advanced procrastination, I did a great deal of research on Flash video codecs this morning. I was spurred by reaction to a presentation I made last night where a young lady quite bluntly said, “You can … Continue reading
Posted in tech
Tagged adobe, cash, command, command line, compression, conversion, convert, cow, decoder, encoder, encoding, fat, ffmpeg, flash, flv, formats, line, linux, macromedia, mechanism, method, mux, on2, online, php, proprietary, python, royalties, unix, video, vp6, vp6e, vp6f, vp6vfw.dll, wad, wars
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Taxi driving: conferences + tourists = seasonal demand
My shifts were busy and lucrative this past weekend. Two big conferences were in town: the Apple WWDC and some sort of diabetes convention. Two special events — the Haight Ashbury Street Fair and the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon — … Continue reading
With Daily Show and Colbert, Hulu takes the trophy. Joost dead?
When NBC and Fox announced their ‘me too’ online video joint venture, Hulu, I was understandably skeptical. After all, Joost had already launched to much fanfare with top partners like Viacom’s MTV and Turner’s Cartoon Network. YouTube had quite a … Continue reading
Posted in internets, media
Tagged bay, bit, bittorrent, cartoon, colbert, daily, distribution, download, downloading, fox, hulu, hulu.com, illegal, joost, mtv, nbc, network, office, old, online, piracy, pirate, piratebay, report, shifting, show, the colbert report, the daily show, time, time-shifting, torrent, turner, tv, viacom, video, youtube
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Driving: Lawyers, reporters and crackheads, oh my.
Sunday was a busy and good day, buoyed by City events and nice weather. Monday and Tuesday were a bit slow. As usual, I picked up a few lawyers going to or from work. (Work seems to always be the … Continue reading
Posted in media, taxi, work
Tagged addict, bavc, bayvac, blog, blogging, ca, cab, cabbie, california, Canada, cocaine, com, crack, crackheads, cray, dot, driving, drug, drugs, internets, law, law school, lawyers, local, market, media, news, Philippines, reporters, reporting, san francisco, school, sf, soma, south, south of market, startup, taxi, taxicab, television, tender, tenderloin, tendersoma, tourism, tv
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Cab driving: earnings update
Time for an earnings update. My earnings floor — the lowest take-home pay I can expect — is increasing from the record lows of the winter. In other words, it’s rare this time of year to see a shift that … Continue reading
Posted in econ, taxi, work
Tagged average, ca, cab, cabbie, california, cents, chart, cluster, dollars, driver, driving, earnings, euro, gas, gas prices, graph, historical, how, how much does a cab driver earn, inflation, many, mean, median, mode, money, much, pay, prices, san francisco, sf, shift, summer, take-home, taxi, taxicab, tourist
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