Annoying SlashDot

I have to say that I find the way that SlashDot delivers its feed item content a little annoying. When a new item from them arrives at my Feed Reader, I read the summary and click on the “Read More” link expecting to be brought to a site that contains the juicy stuff that’s not in the summary. Instead, I find myself at the exact same article on the Slashdot website and have to further click there to visit the real source of the article.

Now I realise that this is generally the intended/expected behaviour but I contend that it should only be so when they have something extra to add to the summary. If there is nothing to add, then why not link me directly to the original article.

Taking digital video to another level

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!