Monthly Archive for July, 2010

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#N97minitour, Toronto cock-up.

Sorry friends, no proper post today. Last night our hosts decided that we should embark on a mojito crawl for some reason, which we did — and achieved predictable results…

#N97minitour, Ottawa wrap-up.

I’m posting this from somewhere on Highway 401 — we’re en route to Toronto this afternoon, stopping in at Nokia Canada HQ in Ajax along the way.

Here’s what we got up to during our two days in the nation’s capital…

#N97minitour, Montreal wrap-up.

Okay, so today I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that there will probably be only three posts this week — one from each of the three stops on our tour. The good news is that I’m having an absolute blast!

Here then are my highlights from Montreal…

#N97minitour, day zero.

Here it is, the very first challenge of the #N97minitour that I’m joining up with today — to get Air Canada’s check-in staff to accept their own bar code at Pearson International Airport. The last two times I tried I achieved very predictable results.

But let’s not dwell on the past; here’s what I know about the tour so far…

Capturing miniDV in Linux… It works!

Yesterday afternoon my humble Linux rig captured over an hour of standard-def miniDV footage from a Firewire camera. There were a couple of issues along the way, but considering the utter disaster I was expecting that’s not too shabby at all…