An amusing incident with a python I’d rather not go into, save to say here are the pics.
January 2005 Archives
Brooke McEldowney draws a cartoon called 9 Chickweed Lane. Dennis Osbourne has kindly collected some of the story threads into a few hilarious compilations of which I think Hallmarks of Felinity is the most amusing.
A very cool gallery of glass and plasma sculptures by Ed Kirshner, of Aurora Sculpture
Tomato Nation has a wonderfuly useful list of advice for people over 25.
Have a look at the breathtaking work of Bryan Berg the cardstacker.
I think this will have to be on my purchase list in the near future. Critical Paintball have created a delrin drive cone for HaloB hoppers.
The Age has come up with an amusing set of glossary terms for Australia.
This Sunday will be an official day of mourning for the tsunami victims. Please observe a minutes silence at 10:59am.
Qld Govt is doing it’s bit to curb the smoking habit by implementing tougher laws and a range of on the spot fines.
Whilst I support the measures I find a some of the criteria amusing. “A person must not smoke at a prescribed outdoor swimming area between sunrise and sunset.” Wouldn’t it be easier to shoot, er I mean catch them after dark?
Check out these before and after shots - definately the best I’ve seen.
After finding a swag of old badly tagged Mp3 files I decided I should get a decent tagger which could add cover art and year, genre information to the files, but I didn’t want to have a single dialog box for each file.
Mp3Tag shows you a list of all the files under the directory you select and allows you to either edit each files tags in the list, or select a bunch and tag them with the same year, genre. Then you can select cover art and apply that to the files.
While I’m on the topic of Mp3 I might as well say that CDex is the best software for ripping Audio CDs to Mp3. All my audio CDs are archived in a plastic tub now instead of cluttering up my desk.
If you have files without correct titles and you have no idea who the artist is or what the album was, use musicbrainz. It will create a checksum of the files and look that up in its database and suggest likely possibilities for the song which you can then apply.
Got my HaloB hopper today. First thing I’m gonna do is whip up a parallel 9v battery harness.
I’ve setup a spare machine with FreeBSD 5.3 to check out what’s different from the 4.x series I’m familiar with.
As an experiment I put about 20gb of Mp3’s onto it and ran up this nice web app called Jinzora. It’s a Web-based media streamer and local media jukebox, primarily designed to stream MP3s.
I’m still in the process of installing and road testing various X11 apps and stuff. My initial reactions are that Xfce4 is much lighter and faster that KDE3 as a window manager.
X11vnc is just the thing you need to connect into an existing X session and mimic the functionality VNCserver on Win2k.
Sim (simple instant messenger) handles the ICQ/MSN/Jabber connectivity quite well.
