Monthly Archives: November 2007

WordPress or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the database

November 17, 2007 – 6:30 pm

I’ve switched my blog over to WordPress.
Quite frankly, it was a breeze. I had to some hassles with importing old posts from an RSS feed, but having so few old posts, I gave up on that and just took about 20 minutes of my time to get them into WordPress.
Proper Flash video posting is [...]

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Video Hosting with Flowplayer and S3

November 8, 2007 – 8:35 pm

[Note: this is the last (i.e. most recent) of my posts imported from pyBlosxom, and it makes possibly-confusing) reference to that, not Wordpress.]
I’d already figured out how to get it into Flash video format. There are sufficient opensource encoders for this, such as FFmpeg, but since I have the giant box of Adobe fun [...]

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Pulled Noodles in Lanzhou

November 8, 2007 – 6:43 pm

I finally figured out how to host my own flash video. More details on that later. Now just making sure I know how to embed stuff in pyBlosxom (the blog software I’m using.)
This is 700 kbps flash video:

By Michael Magin | Posted in China, Video | Comments (0)