I couldn’t find much mention of logging utilities for Linux shell scripting (namely Bash), so I wrote my own fairly quickly. I wanted several functions for various levels of logging (info, debug, warning, errors, etc), and a way to adjust what levels can be displayed. I followed the fairly standard convention of using numeric values [...]
I was getting tired of the bloat and memory usage of Rhythmbox, so I was searching for a new music player/manager. After trying Muine and Decibel and not being totally satisfied, I finally (re)found MPD, the Music Player Daemon. Once I figured out how to set it up (not too hard, but more work than [...]
Other than as a place to quickly jot down ideas, phone numbers, etc., Tomboy‘s most common purpose for me is as a study aid for my coursework. The ability to link the different topics, concepts, and people that I learn about is very useful. Of course, I’m not the only student in my classes, and [...]
CairoPlot is a Python module that uses the Cairo graphics package to produce great-looking charts easily. The results look really nice and are much simpler to create than many other packages, but up until now it has been suboptimal for use with LaTeX documents. I’ve been talking with the package maintainer and filing bugs about [...]