Month: August 2006

Sport

Fantasy Football up and running

August 21, 2006 by 0 Comments

Well the new Premiership season finally kicked off at the weekend and so did my annual Fantasy Football competition. We had an impressive 70 teams entered this year so there’s plenty scope for promotion and relegation (fantasy, of course) over the course of the season. Best of luck to you all.

There were no real suprises on the opening weekend games with Chelsea and Manchester United both winning impressively and Arsenal and Liverpool both slipping up home and away respectively.

The joint leaders after the first weekend are Alan Murphy and Darren Doyle with 45 points.

Multimedia - Technology

Taking digital video to another level

August 17, 2006 by 0 Comments

Technology just never ceases to amaze me. Just this week, I took the contents of 3 DVDs that I had produced for family and friends over the past couple of years along with the contents of 3 full length MiniDV tapes from my Digital Camcorder and converted the lot to DivX format using DivX Converter.

The total size of all of the above in MPEG2 format was just short of 14GB (Lord knows what it was in raw format) but once converted to DivX format (MPEG4) I was able to fit the lot onto a single DVD which I was duly able to play in my brand new, all singing all dancing, MPEG4 DVD player purchased from Aldi not 3 weeks ago for a mere €50!