Wayne D's Blog

Between work, getting www.myyahoolive.com up and helping Zack get his blog going I have been too busy to write my own blog. I also have been trying to figure out why Firefox on Linux is crashing whenever I try to download something. I've switched to seamonkey for downloading temporarily.

Now that I have the My Yahoo Live up and running the hard part has began, trying to let people know about the site. I am too timid to drop into Yahoo Live rooms and spam them withe the information, besides I'm not sure that I could drag the shirtless Brazilian guys away from the single minded goal of hitting on the women who broadcast on Yahoo Live. I've submitted the site to the Yahoo applications gallery but haven't heard anything from them yet. Well worst case is that I polished up my MySQL and php skills and I'm out the $7.50 for the domain name. Of course if Microsoft buys Yahoo they may kill of Yahoo Live or at least close down the API.

I did manage to get the Philips webcam saving video at 60. The main problem seems to be that the VLounge software only saves in .mpg format and that only works at 30 fps. The key was finding a modified version of amcap so I didn't have to download the whole Microsoft Platform SDK.

For the last couple of years I have attended the CBC's Easter sunrise concert. It looks like CBC's recent realignment of CBC Radio 2 means that the concert will no longer take place, though I didn't find any mention of it being canceled on their website. My church dropped the Easter sunrise service a number of years ago so now it seems like I'll have to sleep in on Easter morning.