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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Movie madness
Outside of YouTube, MP4 is probably the most popular video file format available online. MP4 videos exist inside a container format that’s also widely referred to as “the MP4 container format.” Honestly, I’m not sure what the correct name for … Continue reading
Rules of bicycle commuting
I’ve done a fair bit of bicycle commuting over the last 10 or 12 years, and have developed a few rules that by now are strongly ingrained. I don’t think about them often: they’re just part of how I ride. … Continue reading
Bike happenings
For various reasons, I haven’t been very active on the bicycle the last three years. When I finished my birthday ride back in 2006, my bike computer read 15,795 miles. That’s cumulative mileage since I got the computer in 1999, … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling
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Command line XML processing
Today I got a big XML file full of yummy audio and video links that my Web crawler will just love to slurp up. Not thinking, I wrote a quick grep command to extract some of the links and send … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
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GNU tools for Windows
I got annoyed with Windows today. I had this HTML file that contained a bunch of links to RSS files I wanted to download and examine. The task before me was to extract the URLs, remove duplicates, and then download. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Programming
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Bad laptop USB ports
My USB mouse on the laptop stopped working the other night. I replaced the mouse with a known-working one and even it didn’t work on the laptop. I wasn’t prepared to debug the thing at the time, so I continued … Continue reading
Posted in Computers
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