The blog might be sitting fallow until I get off my lazy butt and fix things. Been futzing with my Gateway Touchpad and USB Audio Device in my nonexistant spare time. Oh and the work, freelance work, stack of bills and cleaning and all that jazz.
- mp3DirectCut – awesome Windows program w/ a nift GUI that slices and dices MP3’s (w/ vis and vu meter)
- Similar tools are available for Linux, like PyMP3Cut, and Mp3Splt (with .cue/cddb and mp3wrap (albumwrap) support). No nifty guis however.
In other news, the Star Wars clips I’ve been mirroring for Andy hit a max of 10.5Mbps Friday (my connection is a fully burstable 100Mbps – theoretical 12.5MB/s). Since then, a few more mirrors have been added, so, I’m not too worried about bandwidth usage, but will have to look at it in a few days.
What is disappointing is that Andy had to turn off commenting [and delete about 50 posts] because of the increasingly spiteful, petty, malicious, and distasteful nature of the comments. In any case, it was a little reminder that things are much different now that the rest of the world is online. It’s filled with the same sort of stupidity, careless cruelty, and downright mean-spiritedness as the real world (hoo-ray for humanity!).
Andy notes the irony that the people ripping into this kid most viciously are primarily coming from Game, Hardware and Tech, and Star Wars fanboy sites. Talk about pots and kettles. Maybe we need a different kind of mirror for these guys.