I’ve been playing about with my style sheet. No, not on the live server, on the server at home. I’m trying to get rid of some dubious stuff, pixel sizes, absolute positioning, etc.

It looks ok in Mozilla, but Internet Explorer is giving me trouble. I can’t seem to find anywhere to specifiy the default font size in IE, only the font face. Hmmm Strange.

Jez Higgins from the ukbloggers mailing list has posted this info:

Morning all

You’re no doubt familiar with the GBLogs Recently updated list at http://gblogs.threadnaught.net/recent/recent_pop.html

A little while ago, I wrote a bit of script which retargets that list as a Mozilla and IE sidebar, http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/toys/recentUkSidebar

Well this morning, when I should have been trying to find a new contract (anyone need an experienced C++ developer?) I monkeyed up a bit more script to provide the list as an RSS 0.91 feed, which you can drop into your aggregator of choice. It lists the logs with the
two most recent timestamps, because the full list would be a bit much.

The feed is available at http://www.jezuk.co.uk/toys/recent_gblogs.rss

Jez

Nice one Jez!

I’ve been meaning to look into displaying RSS feeds. After all, my site provieds one!

I’ve just had to delete over 11,000 temporary files from my temp directory! All created from one or other of the wave manipulation programs I’ve been experimenting with.

I do so dislike messy software that doesn’t clean up after itself. I’m not sure which is the culprit, but I can make a guess at Audacity as I’ve used that the most.

I’ve been manipulating wave files tonight. I recorded the soundtrack of a video onto my hard disk using a cool piece of software called Singulator. This is a great piece of software. It is intended to allow you to record old vinyl albums on to disk. It asks for a base file name and automatically splits the recording up into several sequentially numbered files. It uses the silence between tracks to determine where to split. So far so good.

But the soundtrack to a film like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats is full of silences in strange places. Soooo, after letting Singulator do it’s stuff, I ended up with 25 wav files. Some of which were not split enough, others of which were split too far.

So I’ve been joining them back together in the right places, and splitting them apart in the right places. But I cannot find a decent piece of Wave manipulation software. I particularly looked at free and shareware packages. But none of them seemed to do all the bits I needed. I’ve settled on Audacity. Unfortunately it crashes regularly, particularly after the second paste in a cut and paste session. But I also discovered that if you open up a wav file, edit it, and then export to wav, overwriting the file you opened, it seems to replace all but the first few seconds with silence! 🙁

I’m giving up now, and I’ll look at it again tomorrow.