DesertFlood

Bring life to a barren, technological wasteland

I’ve been increasingly thinking of ditching my GMail account. I have a couple of reasons for wanting to do that but they mainly boil down to one thing: I don’t like how comfortable Google is with delivering products that don’t pay attention to details. For instance: You can’t rename a domain in Google Apps. You […]

Amazon is all set to announce an update to their Kindle product list, tomorrow morning. The rumor mill is pretty certain that this will involve the debut of some kind of a tablet device and not an update to their existing eInk Kindles. I’m really only interested in the eInk Kindles. I like the book-like […]

I generate my video files from iMovie and dump them into a folder. I generally generate both a high and a low quality video. I need a way to painlessly: Detect the video quality of the files Generate a stub post for the file, with appropriate height / width values, and links to both the […]

Several years, I created a site I called VideoHub to get around the problem of depending on third party websites to serve my content. Now, I need to update and modernize it.

We are moving… to a new site.

If you like reading about our family life (and why wouldn’t you?), you’ll need to update your bookmarks. We’re moving to thosemartins.us.