Using httpQ with winamp, I now post the current track I’m listening to over on the side bar. It’s not 100% real time yet – wasted’s resources are a little low, but I’ve got a cron job running every minute to update the text file I’m including via SSI – yup, server side includes are alive and well! (The cron job calls a little perl script that queries my laptop via httpQ. Yeah, it could all be in the cron job, but I added a little logic for offline, etc.) I’ll probably put it in php later on today, but just wanted to hack something quick and dirty. I also hacked a similar perl script that I run locally to put fav track titles into a file – since most of the day I stream from 97X or other online stations it’s nice to have a reference.
I can’t remember where I saw it first, but I found out that iTunes has an SDK for Windows – “iTunes COM for Windows SDK“. So I might hack up some code to do the same thing with iTunes. And maybe put all my mp3 from iTunes in MySQL or something. (I want to do the same with my DVDs using the Amazon API, but have yet to actually get passed the “that would be cool” stage.)
And maybe someday I’ll get shwango radio running again…
For some reason I feel the need to push my favs out to the world! (I think that’s an idea shared by many!)
Looks like MyDoom is on the rise again! This time it’s the “M” variant – and packs a backdoor with it – Backdoor.Zincite.A. It’s currently a “Category 4″ over at SARC. Update your virus definitions now!
I ran freshclam (we use clamav on our servers) this morning manually even though the cron job runs daily and 5 more virus defs were added.
I was out of the loop and missed the first week back, but i’m happy that 97X is back. Go listen now!
Maybe I too am suffering from “blogger burnout” as 0xDECAFBAD posted recently. (”Dork Funk” is a great title, by the way.)
There’s a lot I’ve been wanting to post about, but just haven’t had the time or energy or something…
Topics I intended to post about…
1. Perl and XML – nice and easy hacks!
2. Jen’s family visiting two weeks ago. (Jen’s cousin is visiting now.)
3. Enterprise web application development and version control.
4. Web/J2EE Java development and Eclipse. (Tomcat 5 is cool too!)
5. The Da Vinci Code and the other Dan Brown books.
Probably more too, but that’s what’s been in my head for the last few months.
Guess I should have posted a while ago about my birthday – June 20th. Really I guess I should have posted about anything since my last post!
32 feels the same as 31, but 31 felt the same as 30. Hmmm… I guess I do have a few more aches and pains. I’m farther along my “life path” that I wanted for myself – I’m not sure I have a real plan, but I have some ideas. (Or at least trying to grasp what God’s plan is for me, but I won’t get all spiritual in this post.) My relationship with Jen is great and I really didn’t know if I’d ever meet “that person”, but I think I have! It’s really great having someone you can be so comfortable with, who’s your best friend and lover and feels the same about you. Anyway, enough with the emotions! How about the gifts…
My mom and dad took Jen and me to see Over The Rhine and got me a $50 gift card to Home Depot.
Jen got me a digital camera! Woo hoo! I’ve been dying for one and always was begging to use Jen’s. It’s the Kodak EasyShare CX7430 and has been getting good reviews. The built-in memory is cool for when you forget the SD memory card – which I did once already!
I love the macro mode for close objects:
And I think this guy will be the shwango mascot:
