benfu

yup, I actually did this ages ago, but forgot to mark it as completed. I managed it with an eyetv 200, and it works reasonably well, although I think I’d be better off if I added more ram to the mac mini, because it struggles just a little bit sometimes (mind you, I do insist on running the eyetv at the highest quality settings). I even played around with cytv a bit, which rocks.

the mac mini is now going on to the big computer home in the sky (ie. my father), so I’m eagerly awaiting another, perhaps more integrated solution directly from apple… ;-)

so far, this season, I will be:

• going to cervinia for 4 days in 2 weeks
• going to slovakia for 10 days on the 27th
• going to norway for some random snowkiting thing in january
• trying to fit in another weekend in march when i’m back off the silly rally

...is that going to be enough? I doubt it ;-)

...so the rather wonderful nanowrimo turned out to be exactly the impetus I needed to do this – I successfully managed to write 50,000 words in 30 days, and although the book isn’t finished, it’s very nearly there. and it’s not the sort of thing I ever thought I’d end up writing, but I’m sort of happy with it – ah, well, now I’m beginning to appreciate the concept of first drafts ;-)