The personal website of Matt Henderson.
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?
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.
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!
09 May 2003
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.
08 May 2003
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.
07 May 2003
If you use Apple’s Disk Utility application to Repair Permissions on your Mac OS X system AND you have CommuniGate Pro installed, you’ll end up messing up CGPro’s files such that the following won’t work: