Gavin Panella

Archive for February, 2007

WiFi in Luxembourg hospital is expensive, and doesn’t work

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Our local hospital – Hôpital Kirchberg in Luxembourg – has WiFi access available to patients, provided by P&T. Sadly it costs an unseductive €28 per day, or €7.50 per hour. As contrast, P&T offer home broadband from €29 per month.

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February 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

Convert all your Apple Lossless files to FLAC

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I’ve written a Python script that converts audio files from Apple Lossless (.m4a) to FLAC (.flac) format. Crucially, it copies meta-data, with the exception of the cover art (for now at least).

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February 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm

Google Sitemap Gen v1.4 ebuild

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It’s over a year since it was released, but for Gentoo users, I’ve posted an ebuild for version 1.4 of the Google Sitemap Generator in my Portage overlay. You’ll find it at www-misc/goog-sitemapgen.

In other news, I want to apologise for my content-free blatherings about the Apple iPhone. I don’t think anyone reads this blog so I’m talking to myself, but I want to make my contrition public even so, for future readers :-)

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February 1st, 2007 at 1:06 pm