12th January, 2026: Batman.
Right, then: today’s Monday: so I’m off to my weight loss group.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed: and hoping I’ve lost a little.
Here’s hoping!
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In other news?
My nephew, Jude, was over, yesterday.
No pizzas were injured in the process.
But videos were uploaded.
The second one, the FIFA one?
Had an issue: as one of the sounds effects Jude used for it, refused to transcode.
And thus, caused the rendering process to hang.
The solution was simple.
Force quit iMovie, dump the incomplete video, re-open iMovie and re-export the project: after removing the offending effect.
Job done: the resulting video is now the second of the two I’ve embedded, here.
Quite why the effect played up?
I really don’t know.
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As a final thought … ?
I caught this news-piece on The Register, yesterday.
One that tells us the European Commission — the European Union’s highest decision making body — is encouraging the use of more open source software.
If I’ve read the piece, correctly, that’s partly on the grounds of cost: the commission thinks there’s long term savings to be had.
But it also thinks there’s digital sovereignty issues.
In other words that the EU’s not in charge of their technology: US companies are.
I’ve long felt have European companies making software for use by European countries would be a good thing.
I’ve felt that, for as long as I’ve felt British software companies making software for the people and government of the UK, is a good thing.
I can only hope Brussels persuades EU members — and the EU’s apparatchik — to adopt more open source software.
Just as I hope the UK does.
It can only be a good thing.
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