jerakeen.org

I’m transcoding video into PSP format, for which I need certain codecs compiled into ffmpeg, and the default ubuntu one doesn’t ship them. It’s a really easy process, though.

http://po-ru.com/diary/fixing-ffmpeg-on-ubuntu/

A huge mechanical elephant is walking around london. It’s huge. And travels through time.

http://www.londonist.com/archives/2006/05/the_elephant.php

A fairly unreliable way of thumbnailing web pages, but it builds on all the machines I care about, and does produce thumbnails. Fonts are a little squiffy, and it needs the whole of KDE started up, though..

http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/

I stole the effect. Hurrah for computers

http://jerakeen.org/links/

http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/typography-for-he...

Increasingly nice set of python tools for gedit, the (surprisingly decent) default GNOME text editor. It’s become my locel IDE of choice at the moment.

http://www.stambouliote.de/projects/gedit_plugins.html

Example usage of gtkmozembed from Ruby. Specifically, the snapshotter example at the end looks very useful.

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyGecko

A scary comparison chart of all the models of MacBooks and MacBookPros. Not that I want one. First-gen apple hardware scares me.

http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/comparison_chart...

Now I syndicate my delicious and flickr feeds into my Scary CMS, and it does tagging, I’ll clearly need a Tag Cloud(tm). Preferably, I want it to act cloudlike and ephereal, and float around the browser window obscuring things and raining at inconvenient

http://www.petefreitag.com/item/396.cfm

The perl implementation of JSON-RPC. Ships with JSON.pm, which is nice.

http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-1.05/lib/JSONRPC.pm

On prototype, Arrays, and extending the prototypes of built-in objects.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-associative-arrays...

Continuations, abstractions, and hiding important details.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/May-21.html

BT customers can get wifi rates that start to approach the Really Quite Reasonable. Unfotunately, the definition of ‘customer’ is a little annoying.

http://www.btopenzone.com/buy/pricing_plans.jsp

Solid-state memory instead of harddisks? Expensive. But wow, I wasn’t expecting the future to arrive so quickly. I’d love to know what it’ll make the battery life - are screens the big power drain now?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060523-6892.html

Using ffmepg to convert video into .FLV files, playable by various flash movie players. I don’t care about the macos side of things, but this seems like a reasonable collection of useful facts about the process.

http://www.jakeludington.com/mac/20060507_flash_movie_con...

python prefers objects to implement an interface, rather than forcing them to subclass things. This is most obvious to be when it comes to file objects, but it applies across the whole language. Perl does this to a much smaller extent, but you could also

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/isinstance/

server-side javascript, running on a Java server

https://phobos.dev.java.net/

Scary image hosting service. No upload limit, bandwidth cap, or even a requirement for an accound. I’m confused - where’s the business model?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/29/cnets-allyoucanuploa...

Horay for pretty GUI designers. I’m still searching for a linux development invironment that I can at least try to enjoy as much as PyObjC on the Mac..

http://primates.ximian.com/~lluis/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=52