{"id":332,"date":"2004-02-25T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2004-02-25T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T09:23:11","slug":"tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/02\/tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of explanation for the slackening of the pace around here, I’ve spent all my free time this past week immersed in a project using DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple’s brilliant DVD authoring software. This also means you will presently be subjected to my half-baked musings on DVD authoring, and — as the preceding clause aptly illustrates — I am additionally initiating a policy of pre\u00ebmptively criticizing my own posts, effective immediately, as a means of smothering whatever small pleasures are left to the Eurofs and Charleses of this world when they are compelled to snark on my site. As far as I’m concerned, if they are having this much fun, I want a piece of itClearly, this is a stupid idea, as if I am going to exchaust all the possible ways in which what I write can be ojected to.<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Then, you’re going to have to sit through another garrotting of the Swedish language, performed by me. I got back a corrected version of my last effort, and it shows my Swedish skills in a clear retrograde motion. My teacher helpfully asked if I had weaned myself from typing it in MS Word, whose spell- and grammar checkers are like a life vest and a kiddy pool, respectively. I lied. With those things turned on, I know Swahili.<\/p>\n

What’s also lame is linking to my own article<\/a> on another blog, even if it is interesting.<\/p>\n

DVD Authoring:<\/span> DVDs may bring all manner of high-bandwidth goodness, but DVD players themselves are dumb beasts. Those DVD menus have nowhere near the sophistication of Macromedia’s Flash or Shockwave because DVD players don’t have the processing prowessdon’t ask me what the difference<\/a> is, I don’t think they know either.<\/span>. They’ll just about manage playing video and audio tracks linked to buttons, with a bit of scripting thrown in reminiscent of peeking and poking at a Commodore 64. Because of this constraint, even the fancy Lord of the Rings menus are just videoloops with clickable hotspots. For example, until now I never noticed it is impossible to have one audio track playing uninterrupted while navigating menus. I tried to make it so, to no avail. Each click of a button requires the DVD player to initiate a new audio track (or none).<\/p>\n

This, I believe, is the reason for the ubiquity of my pet DVD menu peeve: Interminably long transitions between menus. My guess is it lets the author play some theme music. My other peeve: overproduced menus: Why do they almost always have to look like CNN breaking news intros? I don’t make my web pages look like that, not because I can’t but because it’s uglyOK, so I can’t, but that’s not the reason why they don’t look like that.<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Och nu p\u00e5 svenska:<\/span> Det \u00e4r kanske lite sv\u00e5rt att antar vad utvandrare tycker om Sverige. Och det kan vara konstigt att f\u00f6rs\u00f6ka ber\u00e4tta om sig sj\u00e4lv som land, men det g\u00f6r www.sweden.se<\/a>. Vad ska man ber\u00e4tta om Sverige? En artikel<\/a> ig\u00e5r p\u00e5 Sydsvenskan p\u00e5st\u00e5r att bilden p\u00e5 webbsidan \u00e4r helt fel, att det verkar svenskare \u00e4r “duktiga, flitiga, sk\u00f6tsamma, galna, sensuella, sentimentala och stolta. Sj\u00e4lvmedvetna men aldrig sj\u00e4lvf\u00f6rh\u00e4rligande.”<\/p>\n

Som artikel skriver, andra l\u00e4nder f\u00f6rs\u00f6ker inte att bygga upp ett stor nationellt varum\u00e4rke som Sverige (utom Belgien!). Dock betyder det inte att Sverige inte b\u00f6r g\u00f6ra det. Internationell bild av Sverige \u00e4r j\u00e4tte positiv, och det \u00e4r inte eftersom svenskare \u00e4r duktiga l\u00f6gnhalsar.<\/p>\n

Till exempel, s\u00e5 bygger man upp ett gott rykteGo ahead, click on the FT link, it leads to a cute English-language story.<\/span>: FT skriver<\/a> hur Ikea \u00f6ppnade en ny aff\u00e4r i Sevilla, och anv\u00e4nde typiska svenska anst\u00e4llningsmetoder. Men dem var revolution\u00e4r f\u00f6r Spanien, och nu b\u00f6rjar Spanskare att diskutera deras arbetspolitik.<\/p>\n

Kanske b\u00f6r Sweden.se<\/em> skriver om det…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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