photo credit: jquiz In news that disrupts major portions of my life, there’s this happening: Robots in disguise will likely alter your commute for the next few days as filming for the third installment of the Transformers film franchise takes over the Magnificent Mile. Michigan Avenue between Wacker Drive and Ontario Street will close Thursday night [...]
Category Archives: Geek
Addings chapters to an existing mp4/m4v file
5/24/2010 – 3:18 pm
In the process of working on my TiVo to Video Podcast stuff I finally got to the point where I wanted to do something about commercials. The ideal solution would be callable from ruby or at least the command line so that it can be used in an automated manner. After a few weeks or [...]
Tivo2Podcast update
3/14/2010 – 12:41 pm
I’ve made a few updates since my last release a few weeks ago. I thought I’d toss an updated version out there. What’s new in this version: Duration is no longer hard-coded to 32:00 and actually reflects the duration of the show The script will attempt to find the TiVo via Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf/DNS-SD/whatever unless passed a [...]
My new car is finally “mine”
3/12/2010 – 3:14 pm
My new car is finally fully mine now that my new plates arrived today…
TiVo -> Video Podcast
3/4/2010 – 11:15 pm
Previously on “You can imagine where it goes from here”: We released a script to download stuff from the tivo, and then made some improvements to it. After two years of saying I was going to fully automate the process of downloading and transcoding shows for my iPhone, I finally got off my ass and [...]
Today IS pretty cool…
11/10/2009 – 10:55 am
Rob McCool said the following quote on a UIUC alumni mailing list we’re both on: Actually, all things considered, right now is pretty awesome. You can buy a device for about $200 which has more floating point computing power than a Cray did in 1972 and carry it around in your pocket. Its battery can [...]
In defense of the AppleTV
11/2/2009 – 2:21 pm
Last week the 3.0 software update for the AppleTV came out. On-line there was a lot of grousing about it, and that has inspired this post. The Roku SoundBridge that we had in the family room was taken out by Thor. We didn’t realize how much we liked having a digital music player there until [...]
Build libcurl as a universal binary
8/27/2009 – 12:38 pm
I release one of the projects from work as a universal binary on OS X. Up until tomorrow that mean just i386 and ppc. With snow leopard, it looks like it’ll be a good idea to support the 64-bit architectures as well, especially considering its an ODBC driver I’m working on and the native apps [...]
LOAD “:*”,8,1 (yes, I know I’ve used this title before…)
7/29/2009 – 8:27 am
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brian Bagnall My rating: 4 of 5 stars Some of the reviews I read of this book lead me to believe it would be more focused on the business side than the technology side. I was presently surprised that I felt it was 70% [...]
