Used Tuit.

Its taking some getting used to the fact that my office is no longer the warmest room in the house. Even on its lowest (non-fan) setting, the little AC in my office now keeps the entire place muy cool. So, before I would sit in here naked or nearly so, and have sweat running off of me, while now I tend to dress warmer and hold tight to my hot coffee for warmth. At least I certainly can't complain that its too hot to think in here now!

The only real complaint I have this morning, as I sit here and type, is that I got eaten alive by mosquitos at the BBQ on friday. I probably have upwards of a dozen bites on my body right now, and they itch like crazy :-(

Bandwidth Meter.

I just checked out this online bandwidith meter.

It gave me results of 1424.6 kbps, almost up to T1 speed! Now, I'm actually supposed to clock in at 3000 kbps, which is T1x2, but these things can only be so accurate, when they're done over the internet, using some unknown number of hops between me and them.

VCD: WTF

In preparation for getting rid of my old VHS collection of movies, TV-shows, etc., I've started downloading episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and burning them to CD. I have the entire series on VHS, and would like to have it in digital format. If I could just afford to buy the DVDs, I would, but on my budget, this will have to do for now.

Anyway, the problem is that the VCDs that I've burned so far display normally on my computer, but have large numbers of artifacts and sound glitches when played on my DVD player. I'm at a loss, as I followed the exact same procedure to create these VCD's as I have numerous others in the past, all of which worked.

I don't know if its my DVD player, or something unusual about these CDs, and I'm not sure how to find out.