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A day of my working life caught using time lapse video. Each frame represents one minute and the frame rate is 15 fps. Each 4 seconds of video is an hour of real time. If you slow the video down you can see a lot more detail.

There is a lot of darkness at the beginning of the video (about 28 seconds) since 7:00 am is about the time work gets some daylight and the first frame represents 12:00 am.

The frames were captured on a Mac mini from 2 iBot webcams using a cmdline utility I wrote. A crontab entry takes a snapshot from each camera once a minute. The mpeg4 video was generated from the individual jpeg frames using mencoder from the mplayer package.

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High tech research at Serendipity Software. Pete is investigating new methods of de-imposing 8up pages using a hammer and chisel. Results to date have been encouraging but more research is required. When Pete was asked about what the future holds, he replied “duplexing using wood glue and palettes is high on my list of future research”.

Caught this trailer for Buffy on television while in Japan. “Voice-over” is advertised as a feature to attract viewers. Hearing Buffy in a female Japanese voice would definitely give it that anime feel. Picture was taken at 09:36 am on April 25, 2001 and Buffy was airing at 22:00 on May 3, 2001.

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