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Category Archives: Blog
Using timecode in Excel
A extremely useful 20-kilobyte Excel macro, programmed in 1996, allows video editors to easily edit timecode spreadsheets.
TC.XLA adds a dozen of new and handy functions that are very simple to use. You can now easily add and subtract timecodes, convert between frame rates and even find the value of a timecode in feet for 16mm or 35mm film. The macro seems to support all standard drop and non-drop frame rates.
Python and Leopard
How to fix a messed up $PYTHONPATH environment variable in Mac OSX Leopard.
Tagged osx, python 4 Comments
Plugin-based photography section
I finally got to designing a unified photo gallery which exists independently of the posts. Some photographs are taken from the posts, while others can only be found in the gallery.
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u3 and OS X
I never thought that getting a brand-new USB key to work could turn into a configuration nightmare, requiring trips to four separate utilities and two operating systems. This is what happened last week with the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB USB Flash Drive. This USB key uses a SanDisk-developed technology called U3 (obnoxiously marketed with the slogan "It's what's next. It's what's smart.")
Tagged hardware, osx 39 Comments
Beijing : Weiqi
This is a short clip I shot of two people sitting in a street of Beijing and playing a game of Go (in China, the game is called Weiqi [pronounced, more or less, "way-chee"]). Although originally a Chinese game, Weiqi isn't played very often by Chinese people (it has evolved into its current form after being introduced into Japan). The Chinese seem to prefer Mah-Jong or Chinese Chess and, whenever asked about Weiqi, they dismiss the game as being "much too complicated". I had stopped hoping to see anyone play it until, a few days before leaving China, ... [Read on]
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WordPress transition
My website is currently being transferred into a Wordpress-based structure. For the time being, until I find a proper multilingual plugin, French language support has been ditched. This will come back soon, though. It's easily compensated by the possibilities offered by Wordpress: site searching, comments and categories. Among the many things that have been added, content-wise are new photo galleries, a section about me (a sort of résumé) and the soundtracks for both Kill the Messenger and La fille du juge. Please email me if you encounter any problems during this transition.
Shirts and boots
Although I subscribe to M. Biederman's view of M. Elkin, it's nevertheless interesting to note that this cartoon was published in the same newspaper that was outraged by the depiction of late M. Rabin in S.S. uniform.
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