Have you ever been to a website you admired and wondered what kind of tools and frameworks they were using to make their site?  There’s a great website that will look around for you and let you know.  It is called builtwith.com and it is a snap to use.  Just enter the domain you are curious about and it will tell you how “opitimized” the site is, what frameworks they are using, if there is popular blog software underneath, etc.

It [...]

In vegas, at the airport. What a crazy day! #

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just got my blog back up. jeremyminer.com #
just heard Bill Handel suggest that Ryan Seacrest should be the new host of Meet The Press. #
Watching the pilot of A.L.F. on Hulu. Hahaha. sitcoms. #
REM’s Murmur album is over 25 years old. http://tinyurl.com/56q6xh #
Math question: If your estimated time is 3 hours, and 1 hour later it is estimated to be 4 hours, how long can you expect to wait? #
This is important: http://tinyurl.com/6yt8tj [...]

Sometimes working with 16:9 aspect ratios can cause problems, especially when moving video from Final Cut Pro to iDVD. The problem seems to be from exporting to Quicktime from FCP. If a video that should be 16:9 comes out as 4:3 after export, I have a little trick for fixing it.

Open the file in Quicktime.
Hit cmd-j
Click on “Video Track”
UNCHECK “Preserve Aspect Ratio”
Change “Scaled Size” from 720 x 480 to 853 x 480
Press the “Return” key
Close the window and [...]

I was working on a big HDV project in FCP yesterday and I was nearly finished with it.  After checking the export from Final Cut Pro I was annoyed that the audio got more and more out of sync as the track went on.  When you edit precisely to the frame, all your hard work is destroyed if it is out of sync.

A quick search on Google shows that a lot of other people are experiencing this problem, but so [...]

Here’s a pretty funny clip I just saw on the Daily Show.  Just when you think Larry King is starting to lose relevance in our culture, he always seems to have an ace up his sleeve.

Sadly, my blog database got blasted during an upgrade.  I backed up the database but I’m having trouble re-using it.  But, in the mean time, a fresh WordPress install and a new theme design means I’m Back.  Blogging is good for the soul.

concurrency: mac pro – exporting video, authoring DVD, burning DVD in toast; macbook pro: encoding DVD. time to clean the office. #
@johnmoe thanks @scottsimpson #
lost 3 hrs worth of encoding because iDVD puts up a dialogue box with 1 option: cancel. All it takes is an accidental bump of the spacbar. #
Have a cuddly 7 month old baby girl on my lap. Love being a dad. #
@jeffmcneill google is selling targeted ads on radio and tv. Some houses [...]

Tim Russert’s rainbow: http://tinyurl.com/5gm3ff #
Thinking of popping the ‘help’ button off my keyboard. I’ve hit it while trying to press ‘delete’ too many times. #

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