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In a side project I have been putting up half-hour-long video files for a small group of colleagues to view over the Internet (using the really excellent JW Flash Player), and I am seeing the limitation of my puny HKNet ADSL 1.5Mbps down 640Kbps up line. In reality I can only push around 40KB/s up [...]

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My 2008 Resolution.
I finally got around to go to Beijing in July, on the way back home from Inner Mongolia, but only stayed one night.
No job placement in London. That was a major disappointment.
I didn’t go to Portugal in June.
Visited Inner Mongolia and Beijing in July. Excellent trip.
Study trip to India cancelled. Only two members [...]

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Firewire is nice, but getting rarer on external hard disks, and they all have a USB interface anyway.
The only usable digital interface on the DV is the Firewire port, but these days the selection of SD (Standard Definition) DVs is very limited, and almost all the HD DV cams are big machines meant for professionals, [...]

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