I like to know how to use the command line for everything I can. Here are the tools and commands I use to make mp3s. First, I rip from the CDROM to a wav file. cdparanoia 1 prokofiev1.wav cdparanoia lets me specify the input device, but I don’t need to, since the default—/dev/cdrom—is what I […]
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CSS Naked Day
April 9, 2008 – 10:37 am
If you think things look odd here today, it’s because I’ve disabled my blog’s styling for “CSS Naked Day.” The idea is to emphasize that styling on the web–particularly, that done with CSS, or “cascading style sheets”–should be separate from the structure, or markup. In part, one should separate style from content because a number […]
Death of WiFi?
March 17, 2008 – 9:20 am
An Ericsson executive recently predicted that WiFi’s time has passed: “In Austria, they are saying that mobile broadband will pass fixed broadband this year. It’s already growing faster, and in Sweden, the most popular phone is a USB modem,” said Bergendahl, who was the keynote speaker at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference […]
WordPress Plugin: GZIP Pages
February 22, 2008 – 12:46 pm
WordPress 2.5 is being released in less than three weeks. While it has a lot of exciting new features, it is also missing a feature that’s been part of WordPress for a while: the option to compress page content for browsers that support compression. Up to version 2.3.3 of WordPress, you could select this option […]
Lunar Eclipse
February 21, 2008 – 12:07 am
We enjoyed watching the lunar eclipse tonight, apparently the last one for a couple of years.
Three Years of Blogging
February 19, 2008 – 11:39 pm
Today marks the third year of this blog. Back when I started, WordPress version 1.5 was brand new, and I wanted to try managing a site with something other than my hand-rolled Perl applications. Since then, my involvement with WordPress has grown; I now work full-time as a web developer, and I spend most of […]