Blue Sparks

The Princess Bride is one of my all time favourite movies. It’s just a great movie altogether. Imagine my delight when I found the following comic this morning! I laughed my ass off!!!

Westley's a Dick - Click for full size version

I’ve finally broken down and purchased a media server. Just a little guy though… It’s a Shuttle XPC K45. I am putting an Intel Celeron E1400 (2GHz, dual processor) into it, with 2 1TB drives. It should be a fun little box to work with. The pieces should all arrive today… So I’m looking forward to putting it together!

I’ve packaged my 4 million digits of pi script and placed it on the main products page for anyone to download if they so feel like it. I also added a download link for the Pi Picture script that was available for download previously only from the picture page itself.

Note : This was developed for linux! It can most likely be made to work on windows, but it was not written for it!

I’ve written various tools over the years to help me out with tasks that take a long time, or are very boring/repetitive. I have uploaded one of these to my website. It is a small PHP script that I wrote in order to rip album art from ID3 tags (embedded in the MP3) and store the file as a BMP (windows bitmap) that rockbox will be able to read and display. I’m not sure it will be useful to everyone, but it’s there for the world.

The download is located here if you are interested.

And here’s the description from the ‘product’ page on my website:

“When I installed the Rockbox firmware on my iPod I was left with a dilemma. I had spent hours (days even!) downloading album art for my MP3 collection and tagging every file with it. Unfortunately Rockbox only supports album art as a BMP file, and not embedded art. I didn’t want to spend more days pulling art out so I could see it, and what would happen if I changed what I had on there?
Enter this little script that I hacked together one night. It will read ID3 tags for your MP3 collection, and dump BMP files into the album folders on your iPod. Woo!”

And there it is! If you want to check out more stuff, there’s a bunch located on the products portion of the main site (although products is misleading… I don’t actually sell anything but my time).

I’m going to make the switch… from Gnome to KDE. In my Linux Distro of choice this means I will be swapping from Ubuntu to Kubuntu. I gave the live CD a try the other day and I really think it should be a nice change. Hopefully I can figure out all the applications that will be necessary to run things from day to day. Most of the time I’m running a web browser, email, or an Instant Messenger… and those are all included by default. The difficulty will more likely come when I’m trying to fill those niche apps that I’ve found use for with Gnome. I can’t really name anything off the top of my head, but I’m sure there’s something I will miss.

That’s life I guess… No pain, no gain!