You know that feeling where you’ve been struggling with understanding something for hours, or days, and then it just pops into place? I love that feeling. I just had that feeling with GTK and libsigc++.

Jobs announced that I now need one less machine to do good web development, no more macs for me. Safari On Windows

So my folks are out of town for a few days and when that happens I tend to get a lot less useful things done, and a lot more enjoyable things I have been waiting to do get, well, enjoyed.

One of those was an anime I got that looked good, ‘Gunslinger Girl’. It was very good. Exceptional art, good story line and extremely compelling characters.

I’m not kidding about the characters, they were amazingly deep for an anime and for only having 240 minutes to develop the 10 of them. I don’t often re-watch anime, but ‘Gunslinger Girl’ is on my list again.

I had some m4a encoded files I wanted in mp3 (don’t judge me) so I cooked up a modified script from one found here, that does the trick.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# m4a2mp3
#
for i in *.m4a; do
  mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast "$i" -ao pcm:file="${i%.m4a}.wav"
done
for i in *.wav; do
  lame -h -V2 --vbr-new "$i" "$(i%.wav}.mp3"
done
 
rm *.wav

I cleaned out my /var/www without backing it up. There goes a whole bunch of code I don’t have anywhere else. Including the base of BlowPass 1.0. Hours and hours are now gone.