Opinion
ChatGPT Helped Me Dewarp a Year-Old Fisheye Video Using FFmpeg
Turning distorted 360° footage from an aerobatic flight into something watchable. About a year ago as a treat for my big birthday, my mate Stu took me up to do some aerobatics. I’d never been in a light aircraft before and was a bit nervous about the aerobatics bit. I am not a massive fan… Read note →
Wayback Machine saved my skin
A while back I did a very silly thing. Well, actually I did a series of things that all seemed perfectly sensible at the time but the upshot was a bit of a disaster. I started this blog way back in 2006 and over the years I accumulated over 100 posts, which is not a… Read note →
Let’s agree to never speak of this again
I don’t think I’m a naturally grumpy person, but there are somethings that I just don’t understand that bring out my inner curmudgeon. My feelings about sport pretty much match the way I feel about religion: Practice it & enjoy it if you want (though for the life of me I don’t understand why you would),… Read note →
How not to deliver a good customer experience
When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this: Choose your software Add to cart Pay Download Software nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it – Tomtom I’m looking at you. Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our… Read note →
Sky broadband customer? Moving house? Read This!
We’re moving house next Thursday, so last week I phoned Sky to let them know. I booked in installation of Sky TV at our new address and told them that we didn’t want to continue with the sky broadband when we moved. On Monday My wife phoned me at work to tell me that she… Read note →
A better way to update your facebook status from Twitter
I just noticed that Facebook have stopped pre pending their statuses with “is:” which, in my opinion is a good thing. Unfortunately they haven’t stopped pre pending “is twittering: ” to updates that come in from twitter. Fortunately Dustin Brewer has come to the rescue by developing twittersync which, as the name sort of suggest… Read note →
Quick tip for using XHTML Strict with ASP.net
One thing that has always infuriated me with .net is it’s insistence on adding an invalid name attribute to the asp.net form*. About a month ago I found a nice easy cure for this, so I thought I’d share it. All you need to do to stop .net adding the name attribute to the form… Read note →
Sky Anytime on PC causes machine to run very slowly
A few weeks back I installed Sky Anytime on PC; since then I had noticed a considerable deterioration in the machines performance – to the point where it was almost unusable. I didn’t immediately put two and two together, I just assumed that it was time to give the laptop a bit of a spring… Read note →