Archive for September, 2007

Libertad

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Velvet Revolver’s latest album has been in the wild for some time now but I managed to get my hand on it only recently thanks to a friend of mine (you know who you are!)

To cut a long story short: if you liked their first CD you can’t miss this one too, it rocks hard!

Let it roll…

They’re gone

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

My sister and her family fled the country last night.

I hope they find a better life at their new home but I’m sure as hell am gonna miss them. Especially my six year old nephew. His Jedi training had just began, he wasn’t ready to leave yet! I wonder what will become of him now…

Anyways, I’m glad I could aid them in the big move and that we managed to put them on that plane. It was no easy task with their half a ton of baggage but luckily my dad and my brother-in-law’s mother were there as well (not to mention other relatives) so everything was OK despite my sister’s and her husband’s considerable bitching, confusion and downright panic…

Good luck to you all!

Photo Stream for Aug’07

Monday, September 10th, 2007

My picture stream for August is available at the usual location :-)

Don’t, Lee Soo-ah!

Pyrad project

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Pyrad will be a fully featured web-based audio player (and organizer)

The idea is to support most (if not all) of Amarok’s features including:

  • Playlists of arbitrary size
  • Playlist filtering as you type
  • Wikipedia and lyrics site integration
  • Audio/Ogg/Flac CD burning
  • iPod integration

In addition Pyrad will have some unique features

  • Realtime streaming (online radio station)
  • On-demand streaming
  • Download any song/album/playlist in a .ZIP or .tar.bz2 archive
  • Song/Album comments and ratings
  • Scripted playlists – programmatically generated playlists where the order/frequency of the songs in your playlist can be based on arbitrary logic, e.g. on song age, popularity ratings, listener requests, etc

Pyrad is developed in Python (TurboGears 1.0.x) and makes heavy use of AJAX.

The project is in the early prototype stage of development but it can already edit playlists and broadcast them. If you’re interested in the project checkout my devel instance but don’t expect stuff to work just yet (contact me for a user/pass pair). If you think I could use your help, feel free to join as a developer.

Here’s a screenshot of the webapp in action:

The Playlist Editor

MightyFile is out!

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

The project I’ve been working on for almost a year now is going to be shipped to customers for the first time today. It’s a document management system targeted at small and medium businesses (more details at www.mightyfile.com)

I hope it will be received well and the word of this quick, powerful and easy-to-use system will spread like fire…

Lodki Damage

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

After accomplishing my secret mission last night I decided to pay respect to Nikolaev and do a quick Lodki attempt to kill myself.
(And so I did – I’m so incredibly good at this…)
Fixing the fallout from the mission took a while (used up the air in four gas stations…) so I managed to show up at the Lodki at eleven p.m. (maybe, I don’t really know…)
After doing the Lodki thing I went on a short tour around the downtown streets in hope it would revive me… to no avail.
The hope that 8 hours of dead sleep will help me proved too optimistic as well. I don’t think I’m driving to work today ;-)

Hello world!

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I finally got around to setting up wordpress on my machine. Unfortunately I took this weekend off so there’s not much to blog about (no adventures until the weather improves, and besides spending time at home with my certain someone was more enjoyable than many of the travels I made this summer)

Maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all to stay home every once in a while, but it’s just so hard to get used to it :-)