Florean Dispatches from the land of Florea 2009-06-28T07:00:00+00:00 WordPress http://blog.florean.net/feed/atom/ Links for 2009-06-27 [del.icio.us]2009-06-28T00:00:00-07:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-06-27<ul> <li><a href="http://viswaug.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/creating-a-lean-and-fast-custom-marker-overlay-for-google-maps/">Creating a LEAN and FAST custom marker overlay for Google Maps &laquo; Vish&rsquo;s ramblings</a></li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-06-27 Nathan http:// <![CDATA[New post]]> http://blog.florean.net/?p=45 2009-06-24T20:50:10Z 2009-06-24T20:50:06Z Alright, I am going to finally write a new post on my quiescent blog. I’ve become fascinated with the Mark Sanford story.

]]> 0 http://blog.florean.net/2009/06/new-post/ Links for 2009-06-09 [del.icio.us]2009-06-10T00:00:00-07:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-06-09<ul> <li><a href="http://www.sitmo.com/latex/">LaTeX Equation Editor - SITMO</a><br/> A cool web-based LaTeX equation editor that produces a PNG file.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-06-09Links for 2009-04-25 [del.icio.us]2009-04-26T00:00:00-07:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-04-25<ul> <li><a href="http://www.webdevout.net/test?html4-good-practice">HTML Good Practice Checker</a></li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-04-25Links for 2009-03-04 [del.icio.us]2009-03-05T00:00:00-08:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-03-04<ul> <li><a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2009/03/last-rites">Mike Davidson - Last Rites</a><br/> An interesting look at the future of the newspaper industry. It was reaffirming to see that all of the things he mentions we have discussed.</li> <li><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200901u/fate-of-newspaper-journalism">The Atlantic Online | January 2009 Unbound | When No News Is Bad News | James Warren</a><br/> An article on the future of the newspaper industry.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-03-04Links for 2009-03-02 [del.icio.us]2009-03-03T00:00:00-08:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-03-02<ul> <li><a href="http://www.openjs.com/articles/ajax/ajax_file_upload/">Ajax File Upload</a><br/> A technique for asynchronously uploading a file. Not really AJAX, per se, as the other mentions, but it can be combined with AJAX to provide an interactive upload</li> <li><a href="http://developer.nytimes.com/">Times Developer Network - Welcome</a><br/> A variety of web services offered by the New York Times. Worth looking into.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-03-02Links for 2009-02-24 [del.icio.us]2009-02-25T00:00:00-08:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-02-24<ul> <li><a href="http://kodos.sourceforge.net/">Kodos - The Python Regex Debugger</a><br/> This looks like a cool little tool for regular expression debugging. Unfortunately, it uses QT and PyQT, so it will probably be a pita to get working on OS X. But I&#039;ll try when I have some free time.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-02-24Links for 2009-02-18 [del.icio.us]2009-02-19T00:00:00-08:00http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-02-18<ul> <li><a href="http://iphoneonrails.com/">iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.</a></li> <li><a href="http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/">GCALDaemon - Project Home</a><br/> A program for syncing iCal and Address Book w/ Google.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/n8_f#2009-02-18 Nathan http:// <![CDATA[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]]> http://blog.florean.net/?p=12 2009-01-29T00:17:03Z 2009-01-28T21:45:51Z This explains why I don’t like high-fructose corn syrup:

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

It turns out I just have a well-developed palate for heavy metals.

]]> 0 http://blog.florean.net/2009/01/high-fructose-corn-syrup/ Nathan http:// <![CDATA[More posting]]> http://blog.florean.net/?p=10 2009-01-28T19:33:24Z 2009-01-28T19:33:22Z I’ve been hitting my head against problems at work that I’m having trouble finding a solution to on the Interwebs.

So I am going to start documenting the problems and the solutions here, so that I can refer back to how I solved it if I run into it again. As a bonus, it might help someone with a similar problem, if they get really lucky in their Google search.

And there is a bunch of stuff pissing me off.

]]> 0 http://blog.florean.net/2009/01/more-posting/ Nathan http:// <![CDATA[MobileSafari needs work]]> http://blog.florean.net/2008/08/mobilesafari-needs-work/ 2008-08-13T04:12:38Z 2008-08-13T04:12:38Z MobileSafari just crashed on me for the second time in a few minutes. It seems to do it very frequently, to the point where it is easier to pop out the SIM, put it in my 3G SE, and tether to my laptop. It’s to the point that I am carrying around my “SIM extractor” in my laptop bag. I hope this improves with 2.1.

]]> 0 http://blog.florean.net/2008/08/mobilesafari-needs-work/ Nathan http:// <![CDATA[Django Screencasts]]> http://blog.florean.net/?p=7 2008-05-01T22:15:20Z 2008-05-01T22:14:15Z Michael Trier is the Bob Ross of Django.

]]> 0 http://blog.florean.net/2008/05/django-screencasts/ Nathan http:// <![CDATA[Wii Component Video]]> http://blog.florean.net/?p=5 2008-05-01T21:44:23Z 2008-05-01T21:44:23Z My Wii

We finally got a Wii a few weeks back. We were planning on getting one this summer, probably for my birthday, but I’ve made it a habit to always check whether there are any Wiis in stock whenever I go into a department store like Fred Meyer or Wal-Mart. I made a late run to our local Target just before closing time to see if they had something in stock and when it wasn’t, I wandered over to Electronics to look at the empty space they allocate to the Wii price tag. Imagine my surprise to find that the space was actually occupied by Wiis. And not just one, but three! I phoned my wife to tell her they were out of what she had wanted and mentioned the Wiis. When she didn’t talk me out of it and coyly hinted I should get one, I decided to take advantage of my good fortune and got one just as the store closed. (I continue to check and I haven’t seen one since.) The next day we got our tax refund, so the timing was perfect.

Once you go component…

So now I had a Wii. Next was hooking it up to my TV. It comes with a standard composite video out cable because everyone has one. I was disappointed it wasn’t at least S-Video, but my PS2 and GameCube both connect the same way and I have an old CRT TV, so I figured I wasn’t missing much. However, when plugging in the cables, I discovered that my TV actually had a component video in. Cool, but would it really make much of a difference on a CRT, interlaced TV?

Component cables are cheap and I reasoned I’d need one eventually anyway whenever we decided to upgrade our TV, so I picked one up. When I got home, I hooked it up and left the composite cable on another input so I could compare them.

Wow! It makes an amazing difference. I might try to take a couple of before and after pictures, but it mainly eliminates dot crawl. That gives you a before picture, but after is left to your imagination.

The bottom line is that if your TV can use component video, no matter what the TV is, get a component video cable. It’s the best $15 you’ll spend on your Wii. I’m very curious to try my GameCube games on my Wii now.

I’ll grab some basic screenshots (I have to use my camera, so they won’t be perfect) and put them up to demonstrate the difference.

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