{"id":2227,"date":"2010-01-09T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T19:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2012-01-29T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:06:45","slug":"this-is-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"This is 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n 2010, nobody blogs anymore: Most likely the main reason for this are other distractions like the social networks Facebook and Twitter, where people can selectively &#8216;opt others out&#8217; of their &#8216;personal friend lists&#8217; and pump 148 characters messages out every second. Guilty as charged too, but having blogged for many years, there goes nothing above a three paragraph piece of text. So, what was 2009, again:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/convendro\/\">Convendro<\/a>: I&#8217;ve never liked WinFF and knowing that it&#8217;s just a front-end of the almighty ffmpeg (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=ffmpeg&#038;searchsubmit=Search\">earlier on xsamplex<\/a>), I thought it was time to write something myself. I eventually moved the code to Google Code, mainly because I couldn&#8217;t get myself to touch SourceForge again. I&#8217;ve seen people using my code as a reference for extracting data from ffmpeg&#8217;s (error) output. Interesting to see how that piece of code eventually spread over the Internets. It&#8217;s also interesting to find out how 3rd party software listing sites have been hosting the main installer. As a word of caution, the official means of distribution is via Google Code.\n<li>At one time we were back in Truro, NS and it felt like returning to a place where time has stood still. Every time I returned to Deventer, The Netherlands, I had that same sort of feeling.\n<li>I&#8217;d never thought I would get so attached to a dog. This is particularly significant knowing that as kids we never really had pets (as in cats or dogs). I&#8217;m pretty certain my dad didn&#8217;t mind dogs (and obviously, he seemed to have had his share of dogs when he was younger) but I guess, there was never room for pets in our parental &#8216;enclave&#8217;. Katy the Wunderdog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2187\">died at age 18<\/a>, which is an amazing age for a dog.\n<li>Every time the identical other makes it over to Canada, it always appears to be time for putting everything on the back burner and do some recharging.\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, 2010, then. It will probably be like one of those other years (2007, 2008, whichever), with hopefully (and I say this every year) more programming to be done. Maybe less writing. Who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, nobody blogs anymore: Most likely the main reason for this are other distractions like the social networks Facebook and Twitter, where people can selectively &#8216;opt others out&#8217; of their &#8216;personal friend lists&#8217; and pump 148 characters messages out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2227\">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":[375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}