General

links for 2007-08-23

Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 9 Update Adobe has released an update for Flash Player 9 beta for Linux. This update contains some new features like H.264 video, AAC audio and hardware acceleration using OpenGL. (tags: flash...
Fitness

Bike ride

We just biked about 2.6 miles along the Coyote Creek Trail to Embedded Way. We discovered a small foot bridge that takes you to Shady Oaks Park, a park we had not known about before....
Emacs

Yod.el

Yod.el (love the name!) is a Yahoo! Messenger client for Emacs. http://marti.textdriven.com/yodel/ I tried it and it works well, but somehow doing IM in Emacs seems clunky. This may seem blasphemous to some, but perhaps some...
Music

FLAC to MP3 conversion done

It took several days of crunching on my Pentium 4 box, but now all our FLAC files (recently ripped from our CD collection) have been transcoded to MP3. $ ./flac2mp3.pl | tee flac2mp3.out ... 325 artists, 579 albums and 7806...