Archive > March 2010

Personal Website for Web Development

I’m looking into creating my own website to showcase the websites I have designed.  The ResearchTriangleParkNC site has done pretty well in the rankings, especially Yahoo for some reason.  I got to fourth place right away and have pretty much stayed that way.  Anyways I want to show people the different designs that i do [...]

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Raven Rock State Park

Now that the weather is getting warmer its a good time to get out for a hike with the dog.  So the other weekend we went to Raven Rock State Park near Lillington, NC.  Its a nice place for a hike with many trails.  There is a set of stairs that go from one of [...]

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AVI format for high definition video

Well, if anyone is planning on converting high definition video to .avi, I wouldn’t bother.  It looks like the .avi file format is limited to 2 GB per file.  I had a 10 GB blu ray file that I wanted to convert to avi with xvid to watch on my samsung tv.  The converted file [...]

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Holly Springs Website Design

Its hard to get started at many things, website design is no exception.  I started to really get into website design about two years ago when I wanted to make a website about railfanning.  Knowing pretty much what I had learned in college, which was before css, I started off on the journey of designing [...]

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BluRay Video Conversion for Samsung playback

Well I finally figured out what the problem with the video conversion was.  It was the software I was using.  Apparently my computer does not work with Xilisoft video converter well at all.  I had tried all kinds of different conversions, avi, ts, xvid, divx.  I could only come close with xvid at 23.97 fps.  [...]

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Video Encoding

Wow, what a pain.  I have some BluRay disks that I want to rip and encode in a format that my Samsung TV can play.  I have encoded multiple formats and have yet to find a format that works.  The closest I can get is an XVID video encoding with 23.97 fps.  Yet, somehow the [...]

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Lake Crabtree Park

This weekend with the weather being so nice, we ventured over to Lake Crabtree Park.  Well, technically we didn’t go to lake crabtree.  We actually took a walk down one of the greenway trails that are located in Cary, NC.  The greenway trail that starts near Oak Hall apartments on Dynasty Drive, which is the [...]

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Parish Womble Park Holly Springs North Carolina

If you want to catch a baseball game or even play in one, Parish Womble park in Holly Springs, NC is the place to go.  Parish Womble park also has soccer fields for teams to play in and a walking loop around the baseball fields if you are just in the mood for a stroll [...]

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Bass Lake Park and Recreation Area Holly Springs, NC

When the weather gets nice its time to get outside. One of the nice places for a walk around Holly Springs is the Bass Lake park. Located off of Bass Lake Road, Bass Lake park in Holly Springs, NC has a partial hiking loop around the lake and a center for recreational activities. Its a [...]

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New look for RTP Railfan

I have a new look for the RTP Railfan site but I’m hesitant to switch over because of my ranking in Google.  I’m worried that if I change over to the new site that my ranking will drop.  I think that if I have the meta words and keywords of the site pretty much the [...]

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