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Some time ago I write about how to use mencoder to rotate videos. After playing around with mencoder some more today I found a better way of doing it, all in one go.

In his post, Proposed Tomcat Enhancement: Add flag to escape JSP's EL by default, Matt Raible suggests that Tomcat should add an option to escape the output of EL expressions by default.

Seems like the Xbox Media Center team are working on a Linux port! Apparently they have only been working on it for a couple of months now but it's already beyond just being a tool for skinners and plugin developers. Remote control support using LIRC is in there and it already plays most audio and video files. Even DVD ISO's over Samba!

tela has posted a SEO checklist for Drupal websites. If I've managed to configure drupal correctly this post should get a nice URL alias automatically from the title. I'm using drupal's pathauto module.

I've just uploaded the patch I was talking about in my previous post to Spring's issue tracker. I just hope they won't be too hard on me.

I tried to watch this YouTube clip the other day but found that my flash player had a hard time synching the audio and video. Very annoying! And as far as I can see YouTube doesn't provide a download link to let me download the movie and play it directly from my hard drive. I really wanted to see this clip but couldn't stand the audio lagging behind. I figured there must be a way to hack that flash thing they are using to play the movie. It turned out to be quite easy!

When using my Canon IXUS 40 digital camera to record short videos I sometimes accidently rotate the camera 90 degrees. Of course this isn't a problem when taking photos since it's very simple to rotate an image using Photoshop, GIMP, ImageMagick, etc.

The solution might seem less obvious when dealing with video files. Fortunately, there's this great tool called mencoder (which is part of MPlayer) which let's us fix things like this...

Vi närmar oss slutet på vår USA-resa när vi nu sitter på flygplatsen i New York. Sammanfattningsvis har det varit mycket lyckat. Trots missen med biljetterna mellan LA och NY kom vi med den sedan innan planerade flighten. I NY har vi hälsat på frihetsgudinnan (hon verkade lite stel, men så kan det ju vara när man får främmat). Se vidare bifogad bild. Tyvärr missade vi vad som skulle kunna ha varit en helt fantastisk konsert med Antony and the Johnsons. Biljetterna var helt slutsålda. Att vara ute i god tid är nog ett bra tips i NY. För övrigt har det varit jävligt varmt och jävligt mycket folk och jävligt många tutande bilar och... någon som tror att vi tycker det är skönt att komma hem till gamla Svedala?