So, you may wonder… what the hell am I doing with SoundtrackNet nowadays?

Well, Dan, would read this, and say, close to nothing…

Wife would say, close to everything…

Friends and co-workers… well, this is where you come in.

I’ve been spending the last month plus putting proper meta-data entries into my iTunes library in hopes of converting the [...]

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dak on August 24th, 2007

So, I asked myself this morning, while assuming I didn’t have a hangover, what did I have.. so here it is:
Sweetwater Tavern Wit
Shenandoah Chocolate Donut Stout (sample swig)
Rogue Old Shakespeare
Allagash 15th Anniversary Ale
Wells Bombadier
Ommegang Hennepin
Hook and Ladder Ale
Clipper City Loose Cannon
North Coast Red Seal Ale
Victory Whirlwind Wit
Blanche De Bruxelles
Malheur 10
Magic Hat Hocus Pocus
Red Hook Longhammer
Dogfish [...]

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dak on July 9th, 2007

This is the code I’m going to attempt to use to sort the files… it’s ’sh’, however, I may PERL-ize it.

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
echo “Usage: $0 ”
exit
fi
echo “Sorting $1″
sort -k 4.9b,4.12n -k 4.5b,4.7M -k 4.2b,4.3n -k 4.14b,4.15n -k 4.17b,4.18n -k 4.20b,4.21n $1 > $2

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Now, I know, the PERL Monks out there will biotch and moan that this is inefficient, and as I have time, I’ll probably revise it, but as code monkeys go, I’m not claiming to be one, just needing some collective memory here.

So, the quandary was having two plus years of logs scattered throughout my servers [...]

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dak on April 24th, 2007

Why am I getting a post for every category a post is listed under in my blog. I blame either: a) the upgrade to the new WordPress, or b) the upgrade to the new WordPress, or c) the upgrade to the new WordPress (get the joke?).
This is not to say the upgrade went smoothly or [...]

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dak on March 5th, 2007

well, I’m archiving my DVDs to a media server at home. Been using MacTheRipper and Handbrake for a while. Finally figured out that I wasn’t getting my 5.1 sound, so I had to re-rip a lot of titles again. I have heard that the beta work on MediaFork (the fork of HandBrake, supports AAC 5.1 [...]

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dak on February 23rd, 2007

Well so much for Europe making headway in speeding up package delivery service. I, at one time, was in line to work for Boeing. It’s funny now to see this for Airbus… I like their planes (better designed than Boeing’s planes for the passengers, IMHO). But, if the EU conglomerate can’t get their collective act [...]

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dak on January 31st, 2007

For the geek in all of us…
Boing Boing: Dr Who Tardis USB hub: “”
(Via .)

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dak on January 16th, 2007

exceptionally insightful article from WaPo

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dak on January 15th, 2007

As if this would be an invitation to rip off our house… I went in to price supplies to redo our shower (tile, etc.) and stumbled over to the appliance section at Home Depot. I had been desiring a new dishwasher (why?) since we moved in. Our appliances are old (1989), and the lady who [...]

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