{"id":4900,"date":"2012-05-18T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2012-05-18T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:55:14","slug":"back-from-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"Back from Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Choo-choo twain!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Back in T.O. after a short vacation with 3000 emails on the server, 925 videos in the mailbox, and 3285 soundtracks in the courier box. Well, perhaps that\u2019s a slight exaggeration, but there\u2019s certainly stuff to do over the weekend that\u2019s supposed to be a holiday weekend. At least it\u2019s not one of those noxious holidays where banks & government agencies get the day off, and the rest of the populace doesn\u2019t. Never understood why bank tellers deserve more holidays than a construction worker, vet, sales clerk, whatever.<\/p>\n

Infantile (but not wholly unreasonable) rant over.<\/p>\n

At present my netbook & files & images are at the office, so new stuff won\u2019t appear until the afternoon or evening. Just didn\u2019t want to tote along electronics at night and risk losing a lot of important data, particularly footage that\u2019s irreplaceable. The paranoid component of my brain mandated backing up data on multiple sources just in case, although one medium \u2013 a micro SD card \u2013 crapped out yet again.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t say I\u2019m fond of the format; seems the movement of large files (.mov format in particular) hurts its brain and causes Windows to pause all actions and ask you \u2018This disc is not formatted. Format now?\u2019 Maybe the best word to describe the mini-flash card is, what\u2019s the word\u2026 \u201cShit\u201d ?<\/p>\n

Both to and from Ottawa didn\u2019t necessitate the use of the portable DVD-ROM to watch movies because there was actually a lot of little projects to do en route. Towards Ottawa, shooting a short film plus recording little chunks of sound easily killed 5 hours, whereas on the way back to T.O., editing Q&As from HotDocs for future online posting, logging audio for Short Film #2, and watching the Asus EEE 1000HE netbook handle big audio files killed another 5 hours.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, you can open a 75 min. MP3 320 kbps file, chop off rubbish, add fades, knock down hot spots, boost volume, and do a quick DC adjust before saving without a full-tilt crash\u2026 but it takes 7 mins. to save the file, so make sure you\u2019re sitting beside the window. Bottom line: the Asus can handle audio editing on a basic level without intermittent saves, but its processor power is perhaps on par with a Pentium 3. The program did crash after a big save, but not during, so that counts for something.<\/p>\n

As for VIA\u2019s onboard WiFi, well, I still couldn\u2019t get it to work. The signal was strong, but there must have been some setting I neglected to use to enable a connection. Whatever. Maybe next trip it\u2019ll be easier to latch onto.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve no idea what happened in the world between Monday & Thursday, but presume Rob Ford\u2019s still a buffoon, and Harper\u2019s still an ideological taskmaster with Messrs. Del Mastro & Baird stirring up bloated verbal arguments to look Important and On the Beam for Canadians.<\/p>\n

Four words: Blefuscu, Mully-Ully-Goo.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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