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Archive for 2007

Renewable Resources

[I]f we could convert moronity into electricity we would have an eternal energy source. — Anders Dahnielson

Code Upgrade

Today the Security Advisory System was upgraded from orange to banana.

Last.fm Radio Protocol

During the weekend I decided to hack together my own last.fm radio player in Python. I had found the My Playlist station pretty useless after being treated to the same three songs over and over again, and set out to code a player that would autoskip any songs I’ve already listened to once during a “session”.

So I combed the web and the official developer forum for useful information and even ended up digging into the official desktop client source code to find the answers to my questions. All information needed to implement a client (bar already officially documented components) have now been compiled into one spec-like entry in my last.fm journal.

import time as summer

Python Not many new posts have showed up here in a while due to the fact that a) I have nothing web or code worthy to say and b) I have been busy getting my native Swedish blog going.

But don’t despair. During my summer break this year I’ve started to code a new application in Python that I’m hellbent on completing and releasing. In the process I’m thinking about writing up some brief pythonic posts on topics I usually revisit (or relearn) every time I get back to code in Python. On the joy of Python.

Things You Wish You Didn’t Know

– I was a mistake.

– Ouch. That’s harsh.

– Yeah. Nude twister.

Footnotes

Here is a WordPress plugin that I had almost forgot about only to “rediscover” it during an upgrade of WordPress. The main reason being that it is a drop in replacement for Rochus Wolff Endnotes plugin which I didn’t realized that I had replaced. The main difference is that the drop in replacement don’t need any hacking done to wp-include/functions.php and has a simpler implementation.

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LilyPond

I just want to give a shout-out to the software, LilyPond, that I used to produce the notation in yesterdays post.

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