This is neat: DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide. Thanks for the indirect link, Emma!
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pas des singes en cuivre, mate
It was like 4°C last night, and now it’s -20°C. What’s that all about?
If you’ve never experienced -20°C, it entails ice crystals in the nose, and hair freezing under your toque. Not good.
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m4p2mp3 – helper to turn an iTunes protected m4p to an mp3
m4p2mp3 — helper to turn an iTunes protected M4P to an MP3, so I can play music I have bought on my MP3 player. Probably runs best on a Unix-like OS.
You will need Perl, some M4Ps, mono, FairKeys, DeDRMS, faad, and lame. You’ll need to edit the script to say where the DeDRMS.exe file is. You’ll need to have run FairKeys to pick up your account details from Apple’s server.
Does the conversion via WAV, so you’ll definitely lose something. As written, MP3 file sizes are about 15% larger than the M4P. Doesn’t handle invalid MP3 genres gracefully at all; there is the beginnings of a mechanism to do this in the code, though.
This script doesn’t know anything about decryption, and thus contains no code to circumvent DRM.
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no ‘ole
The ‘ole in the ground is gone, and we have water again. Yay!
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‘ole
There’s now a huge hole in the pavement outside our house where the city have been repairing the main drain. Yay civilisation!
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and this makes news in Scotland: Krankie hurt in beanstalk tumble
Krankie hurt in beanstalk tumble
It’s a pretty good headline, but doesn’t compare with the 1993 outcry over Mr Blobby imposters in the Hemel Hempstead free rag: Fête Fumes Over Bogus Blobby
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Just their two cents …
I see that Froogle has started to place value on people’s opinions:
Handspring Treo 180 Review Comments – The Gadgeteer Bulletin Board
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now that’s what I call an URL!
Yes, there really is a HugeURL.com. Here’s one for this blog:
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pen perfect
I just scored a beautiful black Rotring 600 fountain pen on eBay. I have always wanted one of these. It writes beautifully.
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drain, pt2
The city came to do the drain last night. They found bad stuff, but the guy was pretty sure it was on city property. Sure enough, when they came to CCTV the drain this morning, the city pipe was cracked and badly offset. So yay!, we don’t have to pay.
Unfortunately, we do have to pay up for the basement damage. Since this happened before, we have a monstrous deductable on our insurance policy. The City of Toronto Water and Wastewater Services (whose people have been great, so far) limit claims to $500, and we may not be eligible. So we’re going to be out of pocket, but not as much as we were in Januay 2003.
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aarggh! delivery.ca and pizzaville.ca suck monkey bum!!
We like Pizzaville pizzas. We are shy, and can order them online at delivery.ca with no human interaction.
We ordered our favourite pizzas tonight, and waited. And waited. And waited! And waited!! So I call them. After getting hung up on once, they explain that the store we order from is closed, and so we can’t get deliveries. They claim that they called us. We don’t think so.
This is, frankly, crap customer service. We’re going elsewhere. The pizzas from 241 may taste of cardboard, but at least they deliver.
Oh yeah, and delivery.ca seriously endanger your credit card information by sending your data unencrypted to the server. I’d make that illegal, if I could. It’s the dumbest thing ever.
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pride comes before a Phaal
This is dumb: I just ordered what could be a murderously hot curry from the local takeout. Wish me luck!
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drain
Ah, the joys of home ownership: our main drain has done a bad thing again. A couple of years back, it was so choked with roots from a city tree that it flooded the basement with icky stuff. This time, it just made a wet patch on the floor.
It seems that the tree (planted about 50 years ago with the house) has got into the city’s pipe, partially collapsing it. We share this outlet with our neighbours, so it’s going to be more involved getting it fixed.
There are a couple of other houses in our short stretch of street that have needed this work done. Much as I like trees in the urban environment, when they get in your drains, it’s personal.
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But how can fish stand?
Finnie to outline fishing stance. Aptly named, or what?
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blackspotsneaker
my blackspot sneakers arrived today! They’re a perfect fit.
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Good Activism Guide, from an unexpected source
Activism 101: An Introduction is a remarkably good guide on what you can do to get your voice heard in Canada. The source, however, is one that I’m probably the least aligned with: Focus on The Family (Canada).
This came via a link from boingboing’s Having fun with the FCC Whine-o-Matic, which alleges that 99.8% of the complaints going to the FCC about indecency are coming from the Parents Television Council Complaint Form.
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Tablet on Wikipedia
There’s now a rather short Wikipedia article on Scots Tablet. I also discovered, thanks to A Spoonful of Sugar, that there’s a similar South American sweet called tableta de leche.
I guess we’re all Jock Tamson’s bairns, united worldwide with bad dentition.
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Aria + FlashGot = Linux Firefox Download Happiness
If you install the Aria Download Manager and the FlashGot Firefox Extension, you now have a painless way of managing multiple downloads. It makes an even better linux allofmp3 downloader than the previous suggestion.
