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My web site traffic went up by a factor of 100 in 2025.

Here's a funny example of some poor technical editing on the show Rules of Engagement (in syndication on Amazon Prime).

I've again updated my web site hosting history page with my latest experience.

I've done my annual desktop computing timeline update.

I've done my annual desktop computing timeline update.

After getting a couple requests, I programmed an RSS feed for my web site at https://willus.com/blog/feed.

After nearly 10 years of using Peter Phillips' amazing TRS-80 Model III javascript emulator on my web site, he has now added support for the Model III high-resolution graphics board (640x240),...

OVERVIEW These are run times of ffmpeg v6.1 on a Windows 11 PC with a core i9-9900 CPU vs. on a Mac mini with an M1 CPU....

I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.55 with gcc 13.2.0 and clang 17.

I spent some time today re-organizing my blog and home page.

Since 2018, I have been testing Tesseract's OCR engine against the resolution of the...

I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.54 with gcc 12.2.0 and clang 15.

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 6 Mar 2020...

I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.53 with gcc 11.3.0 and clang 14....

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HP Photosmart P1000 Compatible Driver HP Deskjet 970CSE.

I got my hands on a mac mini with the Apple M1 CPU and compiled k2pdfopt on it.

Wow, even GitHub, a site for hardcore programmers, is using the nebulous date format I blogged about before, so I get to see a whole bunch of files dated "last month" or "last year."...

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 3 Jun 2017...

I'm a Christmas music junkie, and I got pretty excited about the Starbucks holiday song I heard this last Christmas, but I didn't find it until just now.

RANT> Why do sites like YouTube, Reddit, etc. all list the dates that comments are posted as imprecise and relative times like "1 month ago" and "2 years ago"?

I won't call out the company that put up this idiotic plot on their web site, but the dollars listed on the horizontal axis are supposed to be represented by the blue curve on the plot.

I decided I wanted to vent a bit about PlayBuzz and realized I had no real place to put such a vent, hence, my first ever general "blog" entry on willus.com after nearly 20 years of hosting the site.

Can the folks at Microsoft please, please, please stop deleting my printer driver every time they do a major update to my O/S?

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 21 Nov 2012...

I had a disappointing experience with Bluehost today.

The smart phone has officially passed up my 7-year-old desktop PC in CPU horsepower.

Making videos compatible with multiple browsers and devices INTRODUCTION Today virtually every major browser supports...

DISCLAIMER Let my preface by saying that you should be extremely careful servicing your own TV, particularly the halogen bulb on a DLP TV, as they are very expensive,...

Don't throw away that phone, computer, or television!

Spurred on by web sites that told me I could ssh into my iPad if I jailbroke it, I went to jailbreakme.com which led me to the redsn0w site...

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 26 Dec 2011...

I've decided that the way to go for running both Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my home PC is to use Virtual Box.

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OTHER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 21 Nov 2012...

Visit the CheckYourNumber.org California web site to see how often you should change the oil in your car.

Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OVERVIEW These are run times of ffmpeg.exe...

After six years with the same family PC, and with my hard drives getting full, I finally pulled the trigger on a major upgrade, going with a new Core-i5 processor, lots of RAM,...

The most important issue we face today Energy usage, particularly of non-renewable resources such as oil, coal, and natural gas, is an integral part of the industrialized world...

After six months of hardly touching Linux, I decided to reclaim my disk space from the Linux partition I'd created since I ultimately could not get Ubuntu to boot...

It's such a simple concept.

IrfanView doesn't work quite as seemlessly as I thought in Wine.

I am using (or abusing, as my wife would put it) the holiday break this year to start investigating Linux on my PC.

At our child's nine month doctor visit, my wife mentioned to our pediatrician that our child wasn't sleeping well, waking up several times during the night.

(How to get high quality sound from your iPod or Satellite Radio on your car stereo.)

After about five years with the same e-mail address, I finally had to pull the plug on my easy-to-remember e-mail address in October of 2003 because of...

My apologies to anybody who may have received (or may still be receiving) spam e-mail from willus.com with links to porn sites (example below).