{"id":2136,"date":"2009-02-15T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2009-02-15T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T20:09:07","slug":"sardines-cans-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"Sardines, cans, computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple of days<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2137\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2137\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sardinas_son_minas-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"Sardines in tomato-sauce\" title=\"Sardines in tomato-sauce\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sardinas_son_minas-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sardinas_son_minas-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sardinas_son_minas.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> ago, I was watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)\">Planet Earth<\/a> (BBC&#8217;s award winning documentary) and I noticed one of the documentary&#8217;s crew member trying to though out a can of sardines (see photo). We used to eat that stuff too, that is, on white bread and that. I don&#8217;t recall seeing it too often in our kitchen, so I wonder if it was (regularly) part of my dad&#8217;s yearly &#8216;Christmas package&#8217;<sup>1<\/sup>. It&#8217;s not that bad as it looks like. Seriously.\n<\/p>\n<p>I have been running Windows Vista (64-bit, represent!) lately (the last three months or so) and don&#8217;t have really much to complain about except for that, yeah, it doesn&#8217;t run some of my old stuff (Delphi 7) and it generally feels &#8216;unorganized&#8217; or &#8216;inconsistent&#8217;. My biggest pet peeve is <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc749154.aspx\">Vista&#8217;s Reliability Monitor<\/a>: its concept makes totally no sense. What is that saying again? Lies, damn lies and statistics?\n<\/p>\n<p>A couple days ago, I  marked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?page_id=166\">&#8216;Fandro&#8217;<\/a> as a legacy project. I have not looked at the program&#8217;s sources for months and I&#8217;m not even sure if I still remember how it exactly works. I&#8217;m currently considering in changing the license for the program, provided that I can find a way to properly clean up the code and that. After all, my Delphi 7 copy doesn&#8217;t run under Vista 64.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been steadily working on Convendro (my FFMPEG front-end). I was planning to do some extra stuff this weekend, but decided against it and started up cleaning and reorganizing the code. There are still some open things I have to set my brains on: for example, I&#8217;m considering supporting other encoders, which will require changes to the way some of my Preset objects work. But yeah, I&#8217;ve been converting older avi files to mp4s (for my iPod Touch), just to see how it holds up against WinFF, Videora and others.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> During Christmas, Dutch employers give their employees a box of &#8216;goodies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I was watching Planet Earth (BBC&#8217;s award winning documentary) and I noticed one of the documentary&#8217;s crew member trying to though out a can of sardines (see photo). We used to eat that stuff too, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[373,375,374,372,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}