bbtrackerwpt – create GPX files of named waypoints from bbtracker
I like bbtracker -it’s a very simple GPS track logger for the Blackberry. It has (at least, at the current version) one problem – you can’t create waypoints in the way that most GPS applications would...
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m4a2mp3 – convert AAC to MP3. Uses Perl, LAME and faad. Semi-gracefully converts weird iTunes genres to ID3v2, or to “Other” if it’s something else. Uses lame’s new VBR settings, so you end up with an...
View Articlehow does he do that?
Someone asked how the automatic podcast works. It’s a bit complex, and they probably will be sorry they asked. I have all my music saved as MP3s on a server running Firefly Media Server. It stores all...
View Articlerenaming files to include datestamp
My Marantz PMD-620 has a reliable internal clock, and stamps the files with the time that recording stopped. File times are remarkably fragile, so I wanted to make sure that the times were preserved in...
View ArticleCalculating the second last Friday of the month
My boss, bless ‘im (no really, do; he’s a sound bloke, great guy to work for, and is just getting through some serious health problems), needs a monthly status report on the second last Friday of every...
View Articlecreating a TrueType font from your handwriting with your scanner, your...
This looks more than a bit like my handwriting because it is my handwriting! Sure, the spacing of the punctuation needs major work, and I could have fiddled with the baseline alignment, but it’s...
View ArticleParsing ADIF with Perl
In ham radio, we’re plagued with a data log standard called ADIF, the Amateur Data Interchange Format. It certainly is amateur, in the bad sense of the word. It looks like someone once saw SGML in a...
View Articlelearning to tolerate python
Python is okay, I guess, but there’s not a hint of music to it. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Perl programmer since 4.036 days. When I think of how I’ll solve a programming problem, I think in Perl (or, more...
View Articlethe russian peasants are multiplying!
Via this post, I found out about Russian Peasant Multiplication, a rather clever method of multiplication that only requires, doubling, halving and adding. So I wrote some code to display it:...
View ArticleMac to Linux: 1Password to KeePassX
I have too many passwords to remember, so I’ve been using a password manager for years. First there was Keyring for Palm OS, then 1Password on the Mac. 1Password’s a very polished commercial program,...
View ArticleTrolling the Bruce Nuclear Cost and Clean Air Calculator for Fun & Profit
You might have seen the Bruce Power Cost and Clean Air Calculator. It’s supposed to show that nuclear is both cheap and clean, and using anything else would make your bills and your emissions go...
View ArticleMorse Palindromes, or CQ Christian Bök
“The longest palindrome in Morse code is “intransigence””, and it was on … First off, here’s the Morse code for the word intransigence: ·· –· – ·–· ·– –· ··· ·· ––· · –· –·–· · i n t r a n s i g e n c...
View ArticleICQuestionBank2csv
ICQuestionBank2csv: A tool to extract both the Basic and Advanced Amateur Radio Examination guides from Industry Canada’s rather annoying two-column PDFs. Written for IC’s 2014-02 database updates....
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It’s been so long since I’ve programmed in Perl. Twelve years ago, it was my life, but what with the Raspberry Pi intervening, I hadn’t used it in a while. It’s been so long, in fact, that I wasn’t...
View ArticleCalculating the second last Friday of the month
My boss, bless ‘im (no really, do; he’s a sound bloke, great guy to work for, and is just getting through some serious health problems), needs a monthly status report on the second last Friday of every...
View Articlecreating a TrueType font from your handwriting with your scanner, your...
This looks more than a bit like my handwriting because it is my handwriting! Sure, the spacing of the punctuation needs major work, and I could have fiddled with the baseline alignment, but it’s...
View ArticleParsing ADIF with Perl
In ham radio, we’re plagued with a data log standard called ADIF, the Amateur Data Interchange Format. It certainly is amateur, in the bad sense of the word. It looks like someone once saw SGML in a...
View Articlelearning to tolerate python
Python is okay, I guess, but there’s not a hint of music to it. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Perl programmer since 4.036 days. When I think of how I’ll solve a programming problem, I think in Perl (or, more...
View Articlethe russian peasants are multiplying!
Via this post, I found out about Russian Peasant Multiplication, a rather clever method of multiplication that only requires, doubling, halving and adding. So I wrote some code to display it:...
View ArticleMac to Linux: 1Password to KeePassX
I have too many passwords to remember, so I’ve been using a password manager for years. First there was Keyring for Palm OS, then 1Password on the Mac. 1Password’s a very polished commercial program,...
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