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Fixing Now-Reading’s Admin Menu

Posted by Mark | Filed under Plugins, Software

I like using Now-Reading to track what books I’m currently reading, have read and want to read on my website. Unfortunately the plugin’s author has been too busy of late to update the plugin and one of the recent updates to WordPress caused Now-Reading’s admin menu to break (when using the single menu option). PHP […]

Tags: Now-Reading, PHP, Plugins, WordPress

py2avi released!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

py2avi is a python script I wrote to make it easier for me to transcode video files from MKV to AVI while not forgetting to extract the subtitles from the MKV file. On the off chance that somebody out there in Internet-land has a similar need, I’m releasing the script under the GPL 2.0. So […]

Tags: avi, mkv, Python, transcode, xbmc, xbox, xvid

Jaunty Upgrade After Effects

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software

Being something of a linux/technology geek and with the recent-ish release of Ubuntu 9.04, I decided to upgrade my home desktop PC from Ubuntu 8.10. Like the last time I ran through the upgrade, I was surprised at how smooth the upgrade process went. Unfortunately 2 new problems appeared after the upgrade was complete, with […]

Tags: ubuntu, Upgrade

XBMC-Hulu Update

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

I’ve been using the Hulu plugin now for a few days and it’s great but I do run into the occasional problem. So I’ve been following the thread over at XBMC Forums about it as the plugin is under active development. In a recent post to that thread, one of the developers said:
Please use the google […]

Tags: hulu, Plugins, videos, xbmc, xbox

XBMC + Hulu = GOLD!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Software

I’ve been home sick today and when not sleeping I’ve been working to upgrade the version of XBMC I have installed on my softmodded XBox. I had been running the last stable release, but running into the occasional problem. First off I’ll note that Nautilus 2.22.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.04.1, does a crappy job of working […]

Tags: hulu, Sick, tv, ubuntu, Upgrade, xbmc, xbox