Archive for January, 2008

Toyota Corolla

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

On this day (January, 30th) exactly one year ago I got the keys to my Corolla 9 from my local Toyota dealer. I’m a happy customer – I’m really satisfied with Toyota’s services and the car’s performance itself. I’ve really enjoyed driving this car and I’m looking forward to many more years of that. I don’t plan an upgrade until the next Prius comes out. That is if Tesla Motors don’t come up with an even better (pure electric?) offer in the mean time ;-)

P.S. My mileage for the first year: 16550 km

Update:
GM will offer their Volt technology in the EU under their Opel brand… I might be driving an Open again! Ironic, isn’t it ;-D

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Pictures

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I’ve added photos from my trip to Israel for Christmas as well as from my final ‘07 adventure at the usual location.

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python-libshout

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Recently I got the chance to spend a few hours on my audio broadcasting application formerly known as pyRad (I’m looking for a new name for the project, the one I like best is pyTunes but using that might not be a good idea…)

Anyways, pyRad no longer needs ices2 to act as a source in the icecast system (though support for ices2 remains in SVN and I might decide to leave it as a configurable option). However, the primary way to generate the Ogg stream now is directly from within the TurboGears instance via (python-)libshout. Unfortunately, the Python bindings to libshout are not included in certain distributions, so I might need to distribute them along with pyRad.

note: You’ll need the latest version of the libshout bindings from the icecast svn repository. The latest stable release is 0.2 and while pyRad will work with it you will experience extremely slow response times. Fortunately, this has been fixed in SVN by yours truly ;-D Unfortunately there might not be a stable python-libshout release in the “forseeable future”.

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