“We should pitch a TV show that is the IT equivalent of Kitchen Nightmares.We come in as a group and chew out an incredibly inept IT staff.” — Matt Ivaliotes, 1/21/2011
Monthly Archives: January 2011
TiVo2Podcast update
It’s been a long time since I’ve put a new version of TiVo2Podcast out there for people to play with. I’ve made a lot of changes and tightened things up alot. There’s still a lot of things I want to do but haven’t gotten to, but I did finally put up a public git repository in case others wanted to join in the fun.
The major changes in this release:
- Commercials are detected and chapters are added around them.
- Added “clean up” functionality so that you can deleted unneeded files and the database and rss feeds can reflect that.
- Increased the wait time for locating the tivo from 2 seconds to 5.
- Fixed problem created by quotes in the show description.
- Attempt to avoid re-encoding dupes by checking the program id.
- Lost of behind the scenes refactoring.
The first item I consider a major enhancement, so I put it in italics. To make that work, you’ll need to get wine, comskip, and build a helper app. The documentation is in the hastily wrote README. (A reminder, this is intended for PERSONAL USE ONLY, do not set up podcast feeds and violate the ethics (and also the laws) of copyright left and right.)
As always, this has run daily for months and months on linux. It should work on other UNIXes just fine. On Windows, I have no idea.
Download: tivoscripts-20110123.tar.gz
Photo 22: Hook them while they’re young
Amelia and Dinah playing Start the Party.
Photo 21: Go Bears!
Photo 20: Ding Dong, MMMkay
Photo 19: HULK SMASH!
Photo 18: Belle, you hussy!
Adding to the ToDo list
Jason pointed me at 20 Ideas: An Exercise Plan That Won’t Help You Lose Weight But Will Help You Become a Better Photographer to give me some ideas for my daily photo fun.  I’ll make sure to note when I’m utilizing one of those.
Although, some of them may be difficult due to requiring more planning then I’d like, such as:
3. Photograph two subjects that don’t go together like a basketball team standing in a swimming pool wearing their basketball uniforms
Although, with the Chicago weather predicted for this week, the following should be pretty easy:
14. Photograph “coldâ€