Normally I’m rather suspicious (and antipathetic towards) DSP processors for Winamp, but Adrian’s Enhancer is one that I’ve been using that really does (no questions asked) improve sound quality significantly, especially on poorly coded mp3’s and overly compressed (audio not coded) songs.

Shaped (fft based on ambient noise) Noise Reduction on a 1hr clip is taking around 4 minutes. After that I’ll probably run some click removal to see if I can get rid of my keyboard typing. After normalizing, a bit, things should sound pretty damn good.

So, I’m back home, catching up on mail and doing some sound editing and… wow, it’s easy to forget how damn slow Aqua is when you don’t have access to a faster computer for a while. It’s damn slow.

I’ve put up Bruce Peren’s DRM presentation and Doc’s Infrastructure presentation up at my oscon page.

Watching Bruce now… should be fun.

On Safari: Learning Unix for Mac OSX

In the room: Doc asking how we can try to keep ourselves from being marched on our Trail of Tears. I hope it doesn’t come down to a last stand (and if it does, I hope we can organize together and win).

Wow, slapping my forehead on this one. I’ve been wondering how to navigate through dialog box options in OS X for quite a while, and couldn’t understand why there wasn’t anything in the Universal Access preferences and why the help wasn’t working. Apparently in 10.1, there is Full Keyboard Access for Section 508 Compliance, but you actually have to go in the Keyboard preference item and click a checkbox in the second tab to turn it on. For the life of me, I can’t understand why Full Keyboard Access isn’t on by default. An interesting usability issue. While you get a second selector you can move around, say in dialog boxes with the tab key, you need to click space to activate that option. The Enter key will always activate the highlighted default. This highlighted tab is completely different from the selector you can control. That’s very stupid. Also, while the Apple Help lets you search for shortcuts by article title, and there is an ADC Keyboard Focus and Navigation article, there’s no 1-screen quick reference, which, well, there really should be.

jack writes a letter to pyra. Yes, Pyra was way cooler in 2000 than 2002. *sigh*

How to parse a well behaved CSV using a regex in Perl 5:

while( m{

  (^|,)

  (?: "([^"]*)"  

  |

  ([^,"]*) ) 

}xg) {

  $f = $+

  $f = $^N # version 5.8 named reference

}

That’s the maintainable code version. here’s how you’d probably see it out in the wild:

while(m{(^|,)(?:"([^"]*)"|([^,"]*) ) }xg){$f = $+}

Of course, the scary part is that I now understand this.

Dammit, I need to slap Sterling Hughes. I noticed myself unconsciously describing certain technologies as sexy last night.