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31 Aug, 2008

Mastering MythTV MPEG2 files to DVD

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Geek| Linux

MythTV is a wonderful project, which I’ve been running for nearly 12 months. In the AFL season 2007, I was downloading the Geelong games from the internet. Unfortunately, you’re at the mercy of whomever was encoding the game, in terms of quality. By Geelong winning the premiership last season, most of the games were broadcasted [...]

22 Aug, 2008

Latest spam, featuring Britney Spears

Posted by: Andy Botting In: Funny

Sometimes, I enjoy receiving spam. Lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of Britney Spears related spam, which I’ve had a good laugh at.
The emails all seem to have a link in the body which says something like Watch Video or Click Here with some seedy looking photo. Obviously, you wouldn’t click them… but the subject of [...]


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