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Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB

I picked up one of these the other day from Newegg for $9.99, after the mail in rebate of course.  It is pretty awesome 8GB is about all the storage that I need on a flash drive these days.  I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just show you the HDTune Benchmarks.  I had to run the benchmark twice because of that strange spike in the middle.  I don’t really know how to explain it.  One of these days I’ll run a real benchmark with it and post the results.  (These are just read speed tests)

Corsair Flash Voyager 8G

Corsair Flash Voyager 8G

Corsair Flash Voyager 8G(1)

Corsair Flash Voyager 8G(1)

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2009 03 19 silliam Tech Comments (0) Permalink

Something strange is going on here.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.758156,-73.977664&spn=0.002913,0.005997&t=k&z=18

Apparently this is what happens when an airplane, or satellite taking pictures from over the poles, takes pictures from different angles and then puts them together.

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2008 11 05 silliam Interesting Comments (0) Permalink

Blog Entry Poster

Just a little test from the neat little blog entry poster that I just installed, I’m curious to see if it even works!

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2008 10 30 silliam Tech Comments (0) Permalink

Smart YouTube plugin

I discovered this awesome wordpress plugin that allows you to easily embed valid YouTube video.  http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube

Its really easy to use, you just install the plugin and then configure it under the “Settings” tab.  Then when you want to embed a YouTube video you just type httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg and it will automagically handle everything for you. You can also embed a video to play in “high quality” by adding an h after the v, httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg (notice in both examples the bold v and bold vh.)

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2008 10 22 silliam Tech Comments (0) Permalink

Awesome Air Traffic Video

This is an awesome air traffic video that I found on YouTube the other day.  It shows the global air traffic over a 24 hour period.

You can also download the video in high quality at

http://radar.zhaw.ch/resources/airtraffic.wmv or http://radar.zhaw.ch/resources/airtraffic.mov

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2008 10 21 silliam Interesting Comments (0) Permalink

Just a little YouTube test

Testing

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2008 10 20 silliam Interesting Comments (0) Permalink

There Can Be Only One!

There Can Be Only One

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2008 08 30 silliam Interesting Comments (1) Permalink

Missile War

Missile War is one of my new favorite Warcraft 3 custom games.  If you haven’t already, you should check it out.

Download

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2008 06 21 silliam Games Comments (0) Permalink

Raccoon Pwnage

Pwned.

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2008 06 06 silliam Interesting Comments (0) Permalink

XHTML Valid YouTube Embedding

If you have ever tried to embed a YouTube video and then tried to validate the HTML of your page, you know that youtube will break your validation.  I recently discovered the solution.  Apparently YouTube videos are also supposed to be viewed 320×267, I think I actually like the smaller size.  I bolded the important parts.

Original:

<object width=”425” height=”344“><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nrlSkU0TFLs&hl=en“></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nrlSkU0TFLs&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

Valid:

<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nrlSkU0TFLs&” width=”320” height=”267“><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nrlSkU0TFLs&” /><param name=”FlashVars” value=”playerMode=embedded” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” /></object>

Code from this excellent post.

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2008 06 06 silliam Tech Comments (0) Permalink