You can tell because I don’t do anything with my webpages during the summer. Too much stuff going on outside. In the fall/winter I’m back indoors again because its dark outside so its back to webpage design. This year I’ve started the web design certificate program at Wake Tech so I hope it helps enhance [...]
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Investing Theory and Luck
So I recently started to get back into picking stocks and obviously today was not the day to do it. I bought Tellabs this morning and it immediately crashed. What good luck I have.
AVI format for high definition video
Well, if anyone is planning on converting high definition video to .avi, I wouldn’t bother. It looks like the .avi file format is limited to 2 GB per file. I had a 10 GB blu ray file that I wanted to convert to avi with xvid to watch on my samsung tv. The converted file [...]
BluRay Video Conversion for Samsung playback
Well I finally figured out what the problem with the video conversion was. It was the software I was using. Apparently my computer does not work with Xilisoft video converter well at all. I had tried all kinds of different conversions, avi, ts, xvid, divx. I could only come close with xvid at 23.97 fps. [...]
Video Encoding
Wow, what a pain. I have some BluRay disks that I want to rip and encode in a format that my Samsung TV can play. I have encoded multiple formats and have yet to find a format that works. The closest I can get is an XVID video encoding with 23.97 fps. Yet, somehow the [...]
Bass Lake Park and Recreation Area Holly Springs, NC
When the weather gets nice its time to get outside. One of the nice places for a walk around Holly Springs is the Bass Lake park. Located off of Bass Lake Road, Bass Lake park in Holly Springs, NC has a partial hiking loop around the lake and a center for recreational activities. Its a [...]
New look for RTP Railfan
I have a new look for the RTP Railfan site but I’m hesitant to switch over because of my ranking in Google. I’m worried that if I change over to the new site that my ranking will drop. I think that if I have the meta words and keywords of the site pretty much the [...]
Samsung LED TV with USB
Got a 46″ LED TV from Samsung the other day. Very nice television. This tv has a USB interface that allows for streaming video from a USB stick of USB HDD. Problem is the tv is very picky about what type of video it takes. I have tried .mkv files which is one type of hd container. [...]
Alviso, CA Railfan
On a recent trip to San Jose, CA for business I went wandering around to fine some cool railfan sites. One of them is Alviso, CA. This is a small town right on the south end of the bay. Some history of the area can be found on its wiki. There is a trail system [...]
Powhatan, NC Railfan
Not what I would consider a very busy line, but the H-Line east of Raleigh does have a few Amtrak’s and freights move through. This morning I was over checking out the A-Line (where not much was happening) so I decided to check out around Clayton where I can sometimes here the Amtrak call out [...]
