Jared Forsyth's Playground

FFmpeg is a wonderful tool which every aspiring linux guru should get familiar with. The thing it does, just about better than anything else, is handle media files. You can mux them, demux them, encode/decode, resize, compress .....you name it.

I just finished my first instructable, on how to make a decorative origami ball.

These are nice for decorations, or gifts (I've made a few pair of earrings from foil-made ones).

I made this video a while ago, but only just uploaded it. Enjoy.

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I've been playing around with Mozilla Songbird, and am frustrated by the lack of global hotkeys, which are essential to any good media player. As a result, I did a lot of googling, etc. ;), and figure I might as well save the next guy a bit of trouble.

_{disclaimer: yes, I do help develop Plugin Manager. Because its awesome.}

This is the last module you will ever have to install by hand

Plugin Manager eliminates the laborious process of installing a theme or module, resulting in a simple, easy to use interface that will make your job that much easier

[from the Plugin Manager project page]

Drupal is amazing. And Acquia Drupal is even better.

The setup for this site was incredibly smooth, and painless, and now playing around w/ Drupal, I keep finding new reasons to fall in love with it. So far I've written a few modules (one of which, ModuleInfo, is on drupal.org), mostly just for my own amusement/ to help me out in managing the site, but I hope they can be of some benefit to others as well.