Video Codecs 101

WebM: A Video Codec for the Web

WebM Project’s blog post.

Soap, water and sun check!

As soon as I set the oven up the temperature  jumped to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Awesome! The time was 4:00 p.m.

4:15 p.m. 230 degrees Fahrenheit.

4:30 p.m. 240 degrees Fahrenheit.

Getting very steamy in there!

I had to open the oven to clean off the condensation in order to read the gauge which dropped the temperature back down to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. 5:00 p.m.

The sun was setting so I decided to follow it by tilting the oven towards the sun using the included stand.

Great feature of this oven is the built in adjustable stand.

Had to open it up to snap the picture due the condensation. 250 degrees Fahrenheit at 5:30 p.m.

The sun was setting behind some trees by 6:00 p.m. 220 degrees Fahrenheit.

I am guessing the reason the manual says to heat up a pan of soap and water is to disinfect the oven and it did get rid of the new car smell.  My findings are thus: On an 80 degree day with overcast skies the oven will hold a temp close to 250 degrees Fahrenheit if you don’t open the door very often. What I have here is a free energy slow cooker in these conditions. Which is great because meat and chicken cooked all day slow is really tender and juicy! I also suspect the statements about the moist bake goods that come out of these ovens are true. The manual does recommend that you cover what you are cooking unless it is bake goods. It states you cook those just like you would in a conventional oven. The oven heated up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit very quickly so making noodle dishes or hot tea would be a snap in this little gem.

I am not sure if I could have built one myself for the price ($289). The time and the materials may have been more expensive with the cost of the metal used. I think I am going to enjoy using the oven and since my stove is an electric I hope to save on electricity bills this summer while I am running my A/C unit.

What is Barcamp?

A BarCamp is an “unconference” – an open, participatory event where the attendees are the presenters. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, Ca., in 2005. Since then more than 350 cities on six continents have hosted BarCamps. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, open-source technologies, and open data formats; but the format has been adapted to serve a variety of other industries and issues, including public transit, health care, real estate and political organizing.

If you are in the Jonesboro Arkansas area get registered and I will see you there!

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I like when he pointed out that in this age of information at our fingertips, learning memorisation is a waste. I believe Jeff is correct. If you can find the facts and conduct research on your own doesn’t that show you have truly learned something? Jeff also talks about how standardized tests are not needed. I will never forget the day when we stopped reading literary works in twelfth grade literature class to get ready for the test coming up at the end of the year. I often wonder what great stories I could have read.