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From glc stream to Premiere Pro dv avi
Ok, I admit it, I still video edit in Windoze, using Premiere Pro. Haven’t found an alternative I trust yet (but watch this space). My big problem is that Premiere Pro is picky as to what video codec thingy it will accept but tonight I made a breakthrough with …
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Python script to read our moods into an Sqlite database
This script takes a csv file, output from the mood reporting Android app that Peter wrote us and inserts the records into a database
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Compile New GPSBabel from source
A new version of GPSBabel - version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel
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Posting from Emacs
Thanks to Peter, I’m writing this post in Emacs as a test to see whether it works as I think. This is how I got it all working (a lot of this depends on the very wonderful emacs starter-kit )
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Remove Line Breaks in OpenOffice Writer
Something I find myself doing quite a lot these days is starting to write a text in Emacs Org-Mode which I then expect ‘normal’ people to contribute to or view. (By ‘normal’ I mean the perfectly nice but less enlightened who have been duped into sending kilobytes of markup data …
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Face To Facebook Press Release
This landed in my inbox this morning and I had such fun reading it (I’d seen the project and cease and desist letter at Transmediale on Sunday), I thought I’d post it here in case it introduces other people to this beautifully ironic hommage to facebook (about which …
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A much better Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date
Of course, just as I predicted, Peter beat me to it and seemed to learn as much about Python as me in a few days whereas its taken me a few years to get this far (sigh). Last night, as I was making progress, he posted me a script he …
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Using the BT-747 Programme with Dataloggers
For those of us that struggle with the BT-747 programme, I thought I’d just note down some methods here for getting GPX files out of the raw logs that you download from your datalogger.
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A Python script to get a list of placenames from latitude and longitude
Here’s a handy adaptation from Nicolas Laurance’s geoname.py script which takes a lat long and returns a list of place names and their code derived from the geonames database.
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Please sign this if you care about cultural production in Berlin
This excellent site pretty much explains itself in English and German - about the laughable attempt by the mayor of Berlin and cronies to get as much as they can out of cultural activity in this city while at the same time making absolutely no effort to support the cultural producers …
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