Sunday, January 25, 2004

I pulled the phone out and silenced my mobile again this morning when I went to bed.

When I woke, I had one missed call, no number.

I also had an sms, from my friend's De Facto, she wanted the password for my friend's laptop, I sent an email in reply.

I plugged the phone back in.

I forgot to turn the ringer back on on my mobile phone. When I checked it again, there was another missed call, no number.

I thought maybe it was my friend's De Facto calling in reply to my email. I called her, it wasn't her calling, we had a chat for a few minutes, and I found out that we did manage to get the network link back up yesterday.

The only other person I could think of that has caller ID turned off is my mate who is moving this weekend.

I called him up (it's 11am) he's still in bed, sounds like I woke him up. It wasn't him calling me, and he's turned his number back on now anyway.

He asked me around for drinks tonight, he's in his new place (where he lived 3 houses ago), I said I'd go if it wasn't pissing down with rain. "Why?" he asked, "Because I'll get wet and melt" was my smartarse reply.

He also wants me to bring my rj45 crimping tool and teach him how to make cat5 cables. Sounds like an exciting party :-)

I said I would probably turn up around 5pm (oops it's 4.30 now).

So I have no idea who the person with caller id turned off is, they didn't leave a message either. Oh well, if it's important, they'll ring back.

Since then I ate some breakfast, watched a bit of tv, and started mucking around with the tivo video files again.

I think I might be getting somewhere. I pull the files out with TyStudio editor, open them in Tivo Client, make a keyfile, edit the keyfile, to cut the ads out, make a vob, then use mpeg-vcr to join the video clips, and export an mpeg, then import the mpeg into Ulead DVD Movie Factory, make a menu, and export a dvd filesystem.

I've only got 3 episodes ready to go on dvd at this stage, so I need to do 2 or 3 more, then I'll create a full dvd. It'll be too big, so then I'll need to recompress it with DVD shrink or rempeg or something, but I'll get to that bit once I've processed a few more episodes off the tivo.

OK, I have to get ready to go to my mates place, I'll probably have to pickup my crimping tool on the way that's still at my adsl mate's place.