General Stuff....

1) McDonald's is stupid. You spend two bucks on a Super Size fry and you are guaranteed a $1.00 Best Buy Buck. Why not just take the 2 bucks you spent on the fries and spend it at Best Buy?

2) I hate my boss. Not in a mean nasty way, but in a "He-got-me-hooked-on-CSI" way. I didn't even think of watching it until a few months ago, and now I can't get enough of either show.

3) I purchased DivX Pro 5.1 and I finally figured out why I was getting crappy frame rates. My encoding settings were too high, so I set one of my settting to "Fastest" and Voila! Better frame rates. I'll have to wait until I get a new copmuter before I use the more advanced settings with DivX.

4) Been going crazy Buying DVD's recently. What did I buy? I'm glad you asked. I got Matrix Reloaded, The Last Starfighter, Memento, Dogma, Austin Powers (the first one), Dune (the Theatrical release), Apollo 13 (with a nice documentary and a uber-cool feature length commentary by Jim and Marylyn Lovell), and after searching for about 6 months, I finally got A.I. Artificial Intellegence - Widescreen. Took me long enough.

5) I'm NEVER lending software to Matt again. Matt Clark's my best frined Chuck's brother (you got that? I'm not repeating it :) Now, Matt if your reading this, you owe me 20 bucks and I'll tell you why. You're a great guy, and a good friend, but you owe me a copy of Diablo II. There is a PIT on the play disc that make installing it IMPOSSIBLE! I haven't touched it since I got it from you, so you're responsible for replacing it. :)

6) The place is intentionally left blank.

7) I'm playing through Quake II, and I'll have to admit, I'm really enjoying it. It's not the most flashy game out there, but it runs sweet on my PC.

8) See entry 6

9) I can't think of anything else to say... so until next time... Good fight, Good night!

I have found a great capture program, and it's name is...

Wow.. Dr. Divx. I've been doing video capture for a few years now, and it's always been a mish-mash of different programs to get a capture done.

I used VirtualDub (which is an awesome open-source AVI capture and brute force editing utility), but setting the program up can be difficult.

Enter Dr. DivX. It's as simple as selecting the live capture button, the frame rate, and the sound rate, selecting an amount of capture time (EXTREMELY Helpful when capturing off of DVD or Video), and clicking encode!

It's a free 15 day trial and it's 50 bucks to purchase (Including the DivX Pro 5.1 codec). I'll be buying this on Monday.