During the day I like to listen to various audio streams so I find myself switching back and forth between music and news.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play streams for a given amount of time?  I couldn’t find anything that did it automatically so I wrote this quick Python program to do [...]

I haven’t written about procan in a while but I have been quietly working on it in the background.   This release brings UI improvements, namely an ncurses interface as well as some other small performance improvements and optimizations.  If you are not aware of it, ProcAn is an adaptive process analysis tool meant to [...]

I’ve been working on this project for a little while now, it involves a couple of products from Gumstix.  A Connex 400xm-bt, a WifiStix-CF, and a GPSstix (which includes audio, lcd hookups, and gps).  This project is actually intended for multiple purposes including a wearable computer and a car computer.   I chose Gumstix because [...]

Lately I have been so swamped with crap that I’m working on that I’m finding it difficult to prioritize what needs to be done, especially on the micro-scale.  As an engineer I like to break things down into small, easy to digest pieces that can be completed easily and whose existence can be combined with [...]

There’s a project that I’ve been helping out on lately.  Headed up by Meethune and Schick. Check it out here:   https://rssnewzbin.mercymachines.mine.nu It’s a Python program for Linux/BSD that uses saved Newzbin searches and Hellanzb to automatically download new releases based on the search criteria.

When tools that you depend on to work exactly as expected fail it can create a lot of frustration as well as losttime. If you are a tool author you go to great lengths to ensure that it behaves exactly as the user would expect it but you can’t always catch every small bug and [...]