David Lowry

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So, today I graduated, seven months after I should have!  With being in America all summer long I missed out on becoming a real person along with the rest of my class, and never really thought it all that necessary to go and get my certificate. But, today being my mother’s birthday I decided it’d be a nice present to have closure on that aspect of life, even though I don’t get to have any goofy photographs taken or wear a silly hat and scarf combination.

Umm… what’s next? Hit me.

Belfast Giants take on the Newcastle Vipers at a home and home double header in the Odyssey Arena tomorrow and Saturday nights. The games will face off at 7.30 and 7pm respectively. Tickets available from the Odyssey box office! www.belfastgiants.com

Alternatively.. if you can’t make the game, giantslive.tv will be providing a live web cast with special offers spanning the weekend.

Single game webcast: £5

Both games: £8

Also if you’re at the game you can order the pair of DVDs for £15 + P&P

Register at http://www.giantslive.tv to get emailed with full information when it becomes available.

Faceoff tomorrow @ 7.30, saturday @ 7pm.

Enjoy.

Compassionart is:

12 Artists Inspired to write and record an album with all proceeds and royalties going to help the poorest of the poor

All of the twelve Christian worship writers’ styles are audible on the album: Martin Smith, Tim Hughes, Matt Redman, Darlene Zschech, etc. Guest appearances by folks like Tobymac also bring their own signatures. I wouldn’t suggest the album produces many church singable songs, but I don’t know if that was the intention.

You can check out or buy compassionart here.

What happens in Edinburgh… Generally ends up on the internet. So they claim. Here’s my input.

Many times through the weekend the iPhone with its data access provided the answers to many questions, most of which I have forgotten, but on Sunday night Sarah McF asked me to prove the iPhone could answer all questions. That which was posed: what weight was the original Wispa bar? Wikipedia and Google could not, for all their worth, tell me anything other than that the re-released Wispa bar is 36g and supposedly slightly smaller than the older. However…

New Wispa weighs less than the original?

Thanks for your enquiry about Cadbury Wispa.

I can confirm that we have not changed or altered the size/shape or recipe of Wispa bar.

The bar size matches exactly the same size as when it was last on the market (for info 125.0(L) x 30.85(W) x 16.7(D)mm).

The recipe is the same – it was matched to what was last on the market and tested by a taste panel internally. It is a blend of Cadbury dairy milk and a little bit of dark chocolate.

Thanks for your feedback.
Cadbury Consumer Relations Department

So there you go, Wispa bars are the same size and weight as the originals. And what happens in Edinburgh ends up on the internet.

… but of course I do feel like I’ve been unfairly treated by a harsh education system…. sigh

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7773974.stm

And well within time too

How did you do?

For several legitimate reasons I have occasionally got the need to push a video ustream, one of which is the Giants Live webcast which is our live game night broadcast and DVD shop for the Belfast Giants.

Now that the plug is over, back to the topic.

Pushing Video or Music Files to Ustream

It’s really quite easy. As most of you (5,6?) know uStream is an on-demand free web broadcasting solution which takes the usability of youtube and makes it live. One thing it isn’t made to do is broadcast ‘content’ just live material.

It is however fairly simple to spoof uStream into thinking it is receiving a webcam and a microphone respectively for vision and sound. Two simple applications are all you need: CamTwist and SoundFlower. CamTwist manages videos, slide shows, flickr sets and desktop views into a pretend webcam which uStream automatically picks up as an option. Soundflower is an Audio Driver which presents itself as an output option for your sound applications, and an input device for uStream to recieve from.

So to play a movie file (your own or non-copyrighted content of course) open it up in CamTwist and it will probably play automatically. Choose ‘SoundFlower 2ch’ as your output device in ‘Sounds’ and away you go. Broadcast your uStream channel and the two apps should appear as Sound/Video options.

Voilà.

Oh, and it’s my birthday tomorrow. Possibly going to the empire for Blues/Jazz some night this week as an ‘event.’

This pilot show should be going out tonight of Summer Madness ‘FM’. Catch it on the summer madness website from 9 PM. I’ll be doing the broadcast (probably…)

http://www.summermadness.co.uk/festival/view.php?tag=&id=67