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Music Encoding Options

13 May 2003

Over on Macintouch, there’s a lot of discussion ongoing about music encoding – Which is better AAC or MP3? What bit rate is required for sufficient quality? How does the LAME encoder compare to the encoder used in iTunes 4?

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Málaga Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship

11 May 2003

Tonight was the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) championship in Malaga, Spain, in which three BJJ academies competed, Málaga, Marbella (where I train) and Granada. The good news (sorta), I finished second. The bad news, there were only three of us in my category (white belt, around 75 kg). Each fight lasted five minutes. A win was by either points, or submission.

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ddclient for DynDNS.org

09 May 2003

We use the DynDNS.org service for DNS management of some of our hosts behind non-fixed-IP ADSL connections, and had (until now) used the MacOS X-based DNSUpdate client. This client proved a bit too unreliable, and now (thanks to the Unix layer of MacOS X) are using the Perl-based ddclient and cron. Much more reliable!

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Telefónica España and Proxy Caches

08 May 2003

My ADSL and internet service provider, Telefónica España, just installed a network of transparent proxy caches. I suspected this when last week I suddenly lost my ability to immediately see updates to modified websites, and then confirmed with the ip-calculator service.

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ImageWell

08 May 2003

If you’re blogger on the Mac OS X platform, and like to include images in your entries, you’ll likely find ImageWell one of the most useful utilities around.

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Microsoft Integration

08 May 2003

Just saw this great post by NSLog(); pointing to someone’s commentary about what life will really be like when Microsoft achieves their grand integration plans.

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