It’s Scott’s fault!

I’m sleepy.

I stayed awake way longer than I should yesterday and it’s all Scott Card’s fault.

I started reading Ender’s Game and couldn’t bring myself to stop reading for a long while.

On the one hand I feel sorry it took me so long to find out about it, but on the other hand I get to have some great reading now and that’s great.

I wonder how this could have slipped under my radar for so long, but then when I was a teenager things were quite different and I didn’t have the Internet to dig this things up…

The book has been on my “to read” pile for almost a year now and I feel that I will be adding to it shortly with the rest of the books on the Ender saga…

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iMovie HD

Lest I forget, after my initial bout with iMovie I’ve been trying out iMovie HD —the newest version— and, so far, there doesn’t seem to be that many new things.

Of course there is the HD and 16:9 format support, a couple more sound effects and a few more transitions and image effects, some controls where moved on over to the effects group (like clip speed, for example) so a few changes did occur, but nothing really groundbreaking.

Yes, support for the new formats is a big deal, indeed, but on the application front itself there where precious few developments.

Still, it is a good app, as I’ve said before, so what can you improve on it without biting into the Final Cut pie?

Oh, and as far as I’ve seen until now, 16:9 is definitely my favorite format for video creation. I can capture it in native format in the camcorder and iMovie eats it up like a charm. I guess I like it better because of my photography background, I’m used to think of the world more like a rectangle than like a square (and yes, I can do my math, 4x3 is not a square, you know what I mean, get off my back, will ya?)

Still now, as before, iMovie is a great app. I’ll be kind of sorry if and when I outgrow it.