Monthly Archives: February 2010

Bathroom Update

Posted on 23/02/2010 by John

Its been a long time since my last post about the bathroom and it seems like not much has happened. I have been busy on other areas of the house. The bathroom kinda got to a stage where it was … Continue reading →..

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Air-conditioner

Posted on 16/02/2010 by John

I had been saving up money for a shower screen to get the bathroom finished. Last Friday my air-conditioner decided to die so now my plans for the bathroom have to be delayed a bit. I went up on the … Continue reading →..

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Command snippet: Convert wmv to flv on Ubuntu.

Posted on 15/02/2010 by John

First make sure ffmpeg is installed If it is not installed type and follow the prompts sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Once ffmpeg is installed you can run the following command on your video file. ffmpeg -i “INPUT_FILE.wmv” -sameq -acodec libmp3lame -ar … Continue reading →..

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Car insurance

Posted on 15/02/2010 by John

I have a fairly old car 1992 Mazda 626. Its in good condition but its not worth that much. I have been with the same company for insurance since I got my car and the price was slowly going down … Continue reading →..

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Blog Moved

Posted on 14/02/2010 by John

Please update your bookmarks ad this blog has moved back to its old home at jcroucher.com The old urls will continue to work.

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Great Firewall of Australia – Youtube

Posted on 14/02/2010 by John

In an interview with the ABC’s Hungry Beast Stephen Conroy said applying ISP filters to high-traffic sites such as YouTube would slow down the internet. So to handle this they are trying to work with Google to get videos removed … Continue reading →..

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