At long last, I am getting around to posting some omelette pictures in an effort to re-hijack the search term. Not only is the site named for the breakfast food, it will have a post about the same illustrated with pictures. Omelettes– they’re not just about multimedia technology and reverse engineering anymore! Without further ado…

This was an all-around well-done omelette.

This is an omelette in the early stages of cooking. I must have used most of the spices on my shelf for this one.

This one looks like it has jalapenos baked in.

Sometimes, things go bad. I probably just wasn’t watching this one and it burned. Looks like it is leaking chopped onions, too.

Thanks to my multimedia collection hobby I have a ton of CD-ROMs that I need to store efficiently. I’m partial to storing the bare CDs in a very particular type of plastic & cloth CD envelope. But for storing large amounts of CDs, the best method I presently have is simply to stuff them alphabetically into sturdy shoe boxes.

While scavenging someone else’s trove of discarded computer miscellany, I happened upon a box that appears to have the absolute perfect form factor for storing 3.5″ floppy discs:

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Now if only I had something that perfect for the 120mm form factor.

Behold– a printed and bound copy of the Apple QuickTIme specification. It’s okay to be jealous:

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It’s a bit outdated (version 2.2 from April, 1996), but that only adds to its value. I found it at the top of a scrap pile at work. What fortune! I’m certain this would fetch a handsome price on eBay but I am unwilling to part with such a rare jewel. That there are no similar auctions on eBay for the purpose of price comparison is just further evidence of the manual’s rarity.

First off, check out Benjamin Larsson’s new blog: Random thoughts and random numbers. Benjamin is one of the open source community’s resident experts on perceptual audio coding concepts. His blog tracks items toward that end.

When I have time, I have been working on the Hachoir project. I finally contributed a parser for the ultra-fringe Spider-Man BIN format that I discovered a few weeks ago. Hey, it’s a start. As soon as I get the hang of the architecture and Python in general I can picture myself contributing a crazy number of format parsers.

As if I don’t have enough old CD-ROM games to process, I have taken to hunting down entire lots of CD-ROM games on eBay. The strategy is working well as my first lot just arrived. Now I have 50 more games to process for my Multimedia Exploration Journal. I just hope I have the opportunity to process them sometime before a year transpires.