Sick Leave posted by Ben

Sorry about the lack of posts today. I'm fighting off a bug and have spent most of the afternoon sleeping.

I'm working on the next parts of both my "Evolution" and "Ideology" essay series, but they may be a day or two off, depending on whether this bug gets better or worse tomorrow.

In the meantime, here's the link to more information than you ever thought you wanted about Apple Computer's implementation of the MPEG-4 scalable streaming format.

H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. H.264 can match the best possible MPEG-2 quality at up to half the data rate. H.264 also delivers excellent video quality across the entire bandwidth spectrum — from 3G to HD and everything in between (from 40 Kbps to upwards of 10 Mbps).

Peace out. And feel free to leave me a message that you've been by. I don't have the energy today to check my visitor statistics and try to guess who you are based on your IP address. (Which only works if I already know you well, so no need to freak out if you don't interact with me in person.)