Travel in New Zealand
To get from Auckland to Napier I had booked a domestic flight because that should take only one hour instead …
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Travel to New Zealand
On the 18th of December I left for NZ. Compared to my previous journeys I did not do a stopover …
vid2mkv
My digital camera can also produce movies, like most camera’s these days. It saves them in AVI format, with …
vid2mp4
Laptop repair
In November my four-year old laptop started acting up. First it shut itself down a couple of times when doing …
Using Matroška containers for videos
Note
After using ffmpeg2theora and mkvtoolnix for a while (see also the previous installment) to re-encode videos into Theora video …
genbackup
This shell-script makes a backup (with the tar program) of the directory from which it is called, with all its …
Switching to the vim editor
After having been an Emacs user for a long time, I was starting to grow disenchanted with it around version …
Chickpea and vegetables stew
This is a variation on a recipe that I found in a cookbook, because some of the ingredients in that …
Making my first e-book
Now that I got an EPUB reader, I started looking for a way to make EPUB documents.
In principle, an …