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I have had a Nexus One for about a week (thanks Google), and naturally I have an opinion or two about it.
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The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws.
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It has come to my attention that this blog suffers a complete lack of the single most important thing on the Internet: cat pictures. Here is a feeble attempt to remedy this most shocking of shortfalls.

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FOSDEM 2010 is over, and I’d like to call it a success for FFmpeg. The 11-man strong delegation showed the stunned audience a smashing demo featuring a Beagle-powered video wall. It looked like this:

The people who pulled this off look like this:

Earlier this month the IJG unleashed version 8 of its ubiquitous libjpeg library on the world. Eager to try out the “major breakthrough in image coding technology” promised in the README file accompanying v7, I downloaded the release. A glance at the README file suggests something major indeed is afoot:

Version 8.0 is the first release of a new generation JPEG standard to overcome the limitations of the original JPEG specification.

The text also hints at the existence of a document detailing these marvellous new features, and a Google search later a copy has found its way onto my monitor. As I read, however, my state of mind shifts from an initial excited curiosity, through bewilderment and disbelief, finally arriving at pure merriment.
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