by cameron | Oct 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
The nice folks running Podcamp Perth have invited me over and so it looks like I’ll be there from about the 26th of Oct until the 29th. I’m trying to talk Rich into putting together a few people to do a day trip to Margaret River on the 29th. I’ve heard lots of nice things about it.
So I’m looking forward to seeing everyone over there. I haven’t been to Perth for years and years. Should be fun. What is there to see and do over there anyway? Is Bondy still around? I might try to get him on the show.
by cameron | Oct 12, 2007 | technology
Okay geeks and nerds, time once again to make yourself useful.
I was a lucky birthday boy and got myself an XBOX 360 for my birthday this week. As I’m used to using my old chipped XBOX as a media center, I was looking forward to using the new one in the same way (while I move the old box to my bedroom). I want to stream music and video from my PC down to the XBOX. I’ve got music working okay but video is a no go. The XBOX can find the PC, can see the video directory, can see the folders underneath it, but can’t see the actual files.
Then I read that the 360 will only stream WMV videos. Jesus H Christ. Of course, everything I want to stream down is in DIVX or XVID. So I heard about this app called Tversity which will transcode DIVX into WMV on the fly. I’ve got it installed and the 360 can see it okay, it’s streaming music via Tversity okay, but the 360 says it can’t find any videos still.
Last night in SL a few people told me it might be because Vista Business doesn’t have Windows Media Center and I’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate, but if that’s the case, why can the 360 stream my music okay? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Anyway… any ideas? Prove to me your geek mad skillz.
Oh and… should I get it chipped? Or not? Thoughts?
by cameron | Oct 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Another screengrab from my birthday party in Second Life last night. This, I might add, was totally spontaneous. A few of us were sitting around chatting and I went and found a cake. Then I twittered that we were eating birthday cake in Second Life – suddenly, a dozen people showed up. Twitter & Second Life make an interesting duo for spontaneous meetups.
by cameron | Oct 10, 2007 | Podcast
It’s my birthday and I’m taking the liberty of chatting to you about some of the things that I think about a lot lately – the lack of leadership in our world today and the future of the human race. Where are the leaders? Have the baby boomers driven the planet into the ground, beyond hope? Can we rescue the human race? Can you? What problems are you going to help solve? I don’t have answers, I’m still learning to ask the right questions.
Thanks for recent birthday presents too from Frank Arrigo, Miriam Parkinson and Charlie Tuke-Hastings! You guys are in my good books.
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by cameron | Oct 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Celebrating my birthday a little bit early in Second Life.
