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	<description>armchair rebel and cheerful raconteur</description>
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		<title>Extract A Single Image From A Video Using FFMPEG</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2010/06/extract-a-single-image-from-a-video-using-ffmpeg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead handy, this: ffmpeg -ss 0.5 -i inputfile.mp4 -t 1 -s 480x300 -f image2 imagefile.jpg The various options: -t 1: limit to 1 frame extracted -ss 0.5: point of movie to extract from (ie seek to 0.5 seconds) -s 480x300: frame size of image to output (image resized to fit dimensions) -f image2: forces format [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish Adventure Update: Banks Aren&#8217;t Useless After All</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2009/10/spanish-adventure-update-banks-arent-useless-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not completely useless. A follow up to my post from a few months ago. &#8211; So, by now I have decided to go to Barcelona. I will be entering medical school next September, so don&#8217;t worry, I haven&#8217;t given that up! I don&#8217;t have any particular job lined up, but I have heard from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not To Run a Poll</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2009/09/how-not-to-run-a-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a very good writeup by Paul Lamere of Music Machinery of how Anonymous subverted a major poll by Time. AKA &#8220;moot wins, Time Inc. loses&#8220;. A number of things strike me: Despite how obvious it is, Time deny that the poll was manipulated, stating they have safeguards in place, etc, etc. I guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Debian on QEMU</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2008/08/installing-debian-on-qemu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I decommissioned my home server in favour of an NSLU2 (a NAS), I&#8217;ve found myself without a Linux machine to much about with or develop on while on the go (well, whenever I can&#8217;t use my laptop). So instead I&#8217;ll be using a virtual machine by running QEMU from my USB drive. Since my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualising The YouTube Pakistan Outage</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2008/02/visualising-the-youtube-pakistan-outage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a good post by bluesky74656 detailing how you you can get a pretty cool representation of the BGP routing mess that took out YouTube for anywhere up to 2/3 for the world. I&#8217;ve reproduced the post here: Head over to this site. It visualizes the BGP routes between different AS&#8217;s. Click &#8216;Start BGPlay&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soup Crimp</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2008/02/soup-crimp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soup, Soup-a-tasty Soup, soup-a-spicy Carrot and coriander; chili chowder! Crouton, crouton &#8211; crunchy friends in a liquid broth I am gaspachio &#8211; oh! &#8211; I am a summersoup &#8211; mm! Miso, miso &#8211; fighting in the Dojo Miso, miso &#8211; oriental prince in the land of soup! Plain Crimp: On YouTube The Scene (from &#8220;Fountain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox Beta 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2008/02/firefox-beta-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a PortableApps Firefox user, I downloaded Beta 3 of Firefox 3. It&#8217;s pretty slick looking, and there&#8217;s a whole host of new features. I don&#8217;t like the lack of &#8216;go&#8217; or &#8216;-&#62;&#8217; at the end of the address bar which was useful for refreshing a page without re-POSTing, and the new location of thehome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Name is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2007/12/my-name-is-robert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a few Arabic classes recently, and last night we finally had enough knowledge to put together a close approximation of our names. Mine is Ø±ÙÙˆØ¨ÙØ±Ù’ØªÙ’ , which is nice. For those of you that can&#8217;t see the Arabic, get a better browser or operating system. Or look at the lovely, painstakingly hand-drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Talk</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2007/07/google-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2007/07/google-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not the IM / VOIP client, but a cool little tool that gets Google to complete a sentence made by Douwe Osinga. If you&#8217;ve ever played around with Markov chain text generators &#8211; and let&#8217;s face it, who hasn&#8217;t? &#8211; this will give you a bit of entertainment. It does degenerate to gibberish after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t believe your eyes!</title>
		<link>http://blog.roberthallam.org/2007/04/dont-believe-your-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post pointing out an interesting bit of optical chicanery. Blogger Whale has an image that changes depending on how close you are. The explanation given is to do with how the eyes focus close up and from a distance, and the resolutions at both of these points. Decoye Gheist has a plausible [...]]]></description>
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