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	<title>Oldskooler Ramblings</title>
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		<title>Save Ferris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, a group of us are collecting money to buy Ferris Bueller a new kidney. They run about 50 g&#8217;s, so if you wouldn&#8217;t mind helping out:

Yeah, he&#8217;s getting me out of Summer School.
Shit, I hope he doesn&#8217;t die. I can&#8217;t handle summer school.
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		<title>And so it goes</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/and-so-it-goes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally realized that I have no business blogging, as I lack writing skill.  If that lacked eloquence and sounded a tad too blunt, it&#8217;s because I lack writing skill. I was going to start this post by talking about how some people simply operate on a level so far above us that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=400&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for making your own demodvd</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/tips-for-making-your-own-demodvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MindCandy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I responded to a pouet bbs post recently and thought that the information could help more than just the demoscene, so I&#8217;m reproducing and expanding on it here.
As always, some quick background so information below makes sense (if you&#8217;re already familiar with the demoscene, skip to the next paragraph):  I&#8217;m making a Blu-ray + DVD [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=395&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supercharging The Free Time</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/supercharging-the-free-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One month ago, I started work at my new job, a trading firm in Chicago. I live in the western suburbs, so I have to take a train in to the city. The train ride is only 35 minutes each way, but due to a bus hookup that I have to make, as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=392&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wave Of Change</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wave-of-change/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/wave-of-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lifehacks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trixter.wordpress.com/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year has been, by far, the year that almost everything has changed for every member of the family, drastically.  There&#8217;s a lot I could talk about, and a lot that I can&#8217;t at the moment, but one thing that caught me completely off-guard was the death of the Chicago smooth jazz station WNUA Friday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=374&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DietHacking</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/diethacking/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/diethacking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifehacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trixter.wordpress.com/?p=363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You have an unhealthy relationship with food,&#8221; Jason remarked, somewhat casually, after witnessing the satisfaction I got from eating a particularly crisp batch of crinkle-cut french fries.  And he was right.  But, just like an addict, I have everything under control.  No, really, I do.
As John Walker hammers home 2^37 times in The Hacker&#8217;s Diet, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=363&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>And now a word from our sponsor</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsor/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be the first and last time I mention The Oldskool PC Store, mainly because we&#8217;re short this month and need to pay real estate taxes.
YEAH, I SAID IT.  I AM BROKE THIS MONTH.  (Actually, I&#8217;m broke most months, but this month is one of the important ones.)  So if you want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=361&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Block Party 2009</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/back-from-block-party-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/back-from-block-party-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demoscene]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a cliche to say &#8220;this year was the best Block Party ever&#8221; so I won&#8217;t even try to claim it.  But they have all rocked mightily in their own way.
When I was younger and childless, I had tons of free time to write long party reports.  I don&#8217;t have that luxury any more, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=350&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging on the move at Block Party 2009</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/blogging-on-the-move-at-block-party-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/blogging-on-the-move-at-block-party-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m headed off to Block Party 2009; hopefully I can see some of you there, and maybe meet some new sceners.  I am going to try to enter the oldskool demo compo, but no promises.  (I am a very slow coder, because I am overly paranoid careful.)  This year, I&#8217;m part of a four-man party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=346&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nikki and me</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/nikki-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1994, when I was 23, Melissa and I adopted a kitten from a stray that someone from work had taken in, and named her Nikki.  She was more neurotic than playful, more stupid than smart, more heavy than svelte.  Her fur was dull, with a dander problem.  Once she was no longer a kitten, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=335&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredibly Shrinking Trixter</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/the-incredibly-shrinking-trixter/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/the-incredibly-shrinking-trixter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally reducing my volume and mass, and all it took was a combination of several events that converged into a resonance cascade of motivation.  Let&#8217;s examine three big events in three small paragraphs.
One of my demoscene friends, RaD Man, went from being 30+ pounds overweight to running 10K races every weekend in about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=328&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Learning to let go</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/learning-to-let-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demoscene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software Piracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trixter.wordpress.com/?p=314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a happy ending in here, so don&#8217;t cry for me Argentina.  Also, it rambles a bit.  These conditions should come as no surprise to those who know me.
For many collectors, librarians, and historians in the field of computer preservation, there is a line between &#8220;productive&#8221; and &#8220;OCD hoarding complex&#8221;.  I wouldn&#8217;t call it a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=314&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editing HD On a Budget: Cost of Entry</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/editing-hd-on-a-budget-cost-of-entry/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/editing-hd-on-a-budget-cost-of-entry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blu-Ray Disc (BD) is expensive to produce.  As previously ranted by a good friend of mine, the minimum cost to produce a BD is a whopping $4600 &#8212; $3000 for some licensing cost that goes who-knows-where, and $1600 for a sanity-defying mandatory AACS encryption procedure.  And this is before you press a single disc.  (If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=298&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Virginia, things will work out fine</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/yes-virginia-things-will-work-out-fine/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/yes-virginia-things-will-work-out-fine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 12-yr-old son Sam is autistic, as I have written before.  While we are thankful he is somewhat high-functioning, it is a constant battle.  From (re)enforcing proper hygiene, to worrying about his future, even weathering the occasional act of violence, life with Sam is a constant adjustment, filled with stress.  Recently he has developed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=312&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Television Migration</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/the-great-television-migration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digital Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting topic today in one of of the mailing lists I subscribe to:
Why have TV when you can stream anything you want any time you want from the internet?
Where is the place for it, and advertising when you can download shows for free, or close to it?
As a video content producer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=303&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Big Thing</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/new-project-new-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Demoscene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some followers of a certain thread on pouet might have guessed, the MindCandy crew has started production on MindCandy 3.  This time around we&#8217;re mixing the familiar with the unfamiliar:  We&#8217;re revisiting the PC &#8212; specifically Windows  &#8212; but unlike any other demoscene project, we&#8217;re doing it all in HD.  That&#8217;s right:  MindCandy 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=292&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing Life</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/parsing-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demoscene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a lot of information from me lately, mainly because I&#8217;m working on The Next Big Thing (formal announcement in a few weeks, although if you&#8217;re familiar with some of my more public past work, you already know what it is) which is taking up all my hobby time, and also because I&#8217;m having a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=281&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blast Processing 101</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/blast-processing-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hit my inaccuracy limit today listening to the umpteenth oldgaming podcast to refer to Sega&#8217;s &#8220;blast processing&#8221; as only a marketing gimmick.  The common reference goes something like this:

&#8230;which many people assert was a completely factitious term invented to sell Sonic the Hedgehog carts.  Not that it makes much difference nowadays, but I want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=276&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People started dancing a long time ago</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/people-started-dancing-a-long-time-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/people-started-dancing-a-long-time-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I worked at Bank of America in the first few years of this century, I met Matt Hite.  Matt is something of an authority on mash-ups, and he inspired me to try my hand at creating some mixes.  Not mix tapes, that melodramatic lost art of the 1980s, but full-on beatmatched mixes that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=268&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NVScene 2008 Seminars Online</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/nvscene-2008-seminars-online/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/nvscene-2008-seminars-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trixter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few months of editing and collaboration with Temis / nVidia and Bunny / Demoscene.tv, I&#8217;m happy to announce that the footage I shot of the NVScene 2008 seminars is finally online.  Every one of them taught me new things about the demoscene and making demos, even though I&#8217;ve been following the scene on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=265&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>25 Years of Junior</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/25-years-of-junior/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/25-years-of-junior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 years ago, IBM announced the IBM PCjr.  23 years ago, they killed it as swiftly as one would kill an attacking weasel.  IBM had good reason to bury it:  It misinterpreted its audience, didn&#8217;t forecast for the future properly, was too expensive, and most ironically, it wasn&#8217;t as IBM PC-compatible as some clones.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=247&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voter&#8217;s Remorse</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/voters-remorse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing upsets me more than political discourse.  And, with that sentence, I have immediately alienated approximately half of my readership &#8212; which naturally upsets me more.
Every four years, Americans put themselves through hell trying to elect someone whom they can come to terms with.  There is no perfect candidate; there is no best match (even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=244&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Demoparty You Can Drive</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-demoparty-you-can-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-demoparty-you-can-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finished editing the NVScene seminar footage and am in the process of distributing it to those who get the six-month exclusive license for distribution (most likely demoscene.tv).  Until then, here&#8217;s a taste of RVScene, the party outside the party in an RV.  Yes, an RV.


	
	
	
	


It&#8217;s HD if your system/bandwidth can handle it, so be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=241&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The diskette that blew Trixter&#8217;s mind</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Software Piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vintage Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an IBM PC historian, one aspect of my hobby is archiving gaming software.  (You can take that statement to mean anything you want &#8212; whatever you think of, you&#8217;re probably right.)  At the 2008 ECCC this past Saturday, a vendor wanted to offload his entire PC stock on me for $5, which I happily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=234&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>171</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>I&#8217;ll save you the trouble</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/ill-save-you-the-trouble/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/ill-save-you-the-trouble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Demoscene]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I edit the NVScene video that I shot for nVidia/Demoscene.tv (technically I own the rights to the footage, but out of professional courtesy I am giving them a six-month exclusive license to it), I find myself with a lot of free time, because creating .WMV files for previews requires rendering, and rendering 1920&#215;1080 footage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=231&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chock full of awesome</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/chock-full-of-awesome/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/chock-full-of-awesome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NVScene was everything I had hoped for and much more.  Thanks to the money put behind the event by NVidia, the sound system and bigscreen was something to be in awe of:  1920&#215;1080 on a screen about 30 feet tall.  North American sceners got the chance to meet some of the modern greats, with representatives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=227&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>[N&#124;R]VScene</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/i-will-be-attending-nvscene-via-rvscene/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/i-will-be-attending-nvscene-via-rvscene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the title says, I will be attending NVScene this year through RVScene (&#8220;The demoparty you can drive!&#8221;).  I hope to see you there!
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		<title>Kicking my own ass</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/kicking-my-own-ass/</link>
		<comments>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/kicking-my-own-ass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Wizball.  Every few years, as I slowly work my way through my hobby of restoring vintage IBM PCs and clones, I will pull Wizball out and try to finish a game on the PC that I&#8217;m restoring at that time (as a burn-in test &#8212; yeah, that&#8217;s it), and see how far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=213&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Rebuttal</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/a-rebuttal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son wanted the opportunity to rebut the rules I laid down for shooters, so here is his response:
Max&#8217;s Rebuttal
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birthday Frags</title>
		<link>http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/birthday-frags/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am 37.  I am also 237.  I&#8217;m working on the latter.
My youngest son Max will be 9 years old in November, but already he has been bugging (begging?) me to play some first-person shooters.  I initially thought this was a good idea and let him play TimeShift with all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=trixter.wordpress.com&blog=23286&post=208&subd=trixter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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