Author Archives: christian

Successful party

Halloween party went off without any major problems. I was a bit late with the “Spider, filled with stewed squirrel brain” starter, but the first guests helped us preparing salad and serving martini. The spider legs were a bit pale, their shells a bit too well done (i.e. hard and dry) and the brain-stew turned […]

Mono for FC4

Finally there appears a mono build for FC4. I’ve been running the FC3-packages since FC4 was released. This may be a short happiness, however, with FC5 test1 scheduled for release 7/11. Busy weekend. Started preparing for the Halloween-party. Bought black food dye and made some black chocolate, and started creating eyes. Really wanted to have […]

Encoding mp4 with faac

Tested the different AAC object types supported by faac: LC, Main and LTP. I ran the test on an old HP xw4000 and noted elapsed time as reported by faac. The test-material was a 7:35 long track, sampled from vinyl. It had been processed from WAV to OGG and back to WAV again. Type Time […]

Winter

Two months to christmas. It was freezing cold outdoors, and while waiting for the commuter train this morning I noticed a few small snowflakes in the air. On the train home I finished “Knife of Dreams”. (spoiler-warning) I feel like it is missing a chapter or two. The cliff-hanger at the end was a bit […]