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py2avi released!

Mark — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:08:48 +0000

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 if you want/need it, take it and have fun with it!

py2avi released! © Mark McKibben, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.

I’ve Been Up To…

Mark — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:32:16 +0000

Celebrating Obama’s election.
Trying to work my way through 100 push-ups, but having to restart a couple of weeks. Especially week 4 which I’m currently on restart #3 due to holiday & snow-shovelling madness.
Panicking over the economy.
Beating my head against wxPython & Py2EXE.
Twittering
Enjoying a very Horrible Christmas¹.
Reading a lot.
Pining for a new camera.
Buying new shoes as the sole of my old shoes had worn away enough to leak water in under the ball of my foot.
Attending holiday festivities with friends.

Update: Forgot to mention I was also participating in DrawMo, which is like NaNoWrMo but for artists. Well, I was sort of participating. In that I tried to draw something new every day but didn’t quite make it every day (but I did catch up on later days) and I’ve yet to scan/post my sketches for it. *shrug* Oh well.

¹ Highly recommend both the soundtrack and the DVD, 5 stars, 2 thumbs up, etc, etc…

I’ve Been Up To… © Mark McKibben, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.

Quick Note

Mark — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:29:17 +0000

Just upgraded CoffeeBear.net to WordPress 2.6. So this post is partly to make sure all my plugins are working correctly with it.

I’d also like to take a momemt to thank AWelkin & Bryon for the gifts they brought back from Japan for me. I’ve now decorated my cubicle with 3 Tachikoma gashapon. *yeah!* Also a quick thanks should go out to my buddy/ex-coworker Eric, he mentioned more than once I just needed the right motivation to get into programming¹. Well I recently had some slow time at work and wanted a way to parse some badly formatted data; so I wrote a Python script and while doing so certain things that have never clicked in my head about programming started falling into place. I’ve since started working on another Python script for a different project at the office, so perhaps there’s some hope for my coding-fu yet.

¹ I do a lot of computer stuff, but have never been much of a programmer. Usually I just learn enough to hack somebody else’s stuff together to do what I want in rather ugly hacks.