CD Ripping on Debian

Today I fixed my computer. It now will rip cd's, without being really slow. Actually I only had to install a new kernel. I now use 2.6.8 instead of 2.6.7.

Ripping cd's with sound-juicer is really simple.

A Webmail To RSS tool

At my school we now have to use a webmail client. And I don't like it. Because it is a lot of work to open up the page, enter a password, look over the messages and find nothing new.

I use Liferea as my RSS Feed Reader and it now uses a program to get a feed of the messages. The program downloads the webpage with the messages and then generates a simple rss2.0 feed from that.

If I have cleaned up the sourcecode I will put it on my webpage as free software. This will solve some real problems some students have with the e-mail. It will at least solve some of the problems.

To the Toydolls

We are going to the Toydolls. They will play at the Oosterpoort in Groningen on 21 november. This is going to be so much fun. And the tickets are only EUR 15,- + EUR 3,30 administration costs. TicketService is the best there is :)

Birthday

I am 21 now. Ole.

Notemanager Webapp

Today I started with the creation of a webapp, in which you can make notes. It's really simple, but already it has some nice features, like categories. It is written in ruby and uses YAML to save the notes. This makes it easier to save and load the notes.

Tray Icon applet to add pages to blog

Inspired by Tomboy and GnomeTrashApplet I created a TrayIconApplet to add pages to my weblog. But it's not written in C or C#, but in ruby using it's Gtk wrappers. And it was easier than I at first thought.

It's a application around pages. And has the following features.

• listing web pages on website
• editing web pages on website
• listing all weblog items
• adding new items to weblog
• generating the website

It's a really nice app. But it's still has lots of bugs, probably. And some stuff is not yet good enough, like the interface of the editor. It could use some extra buttons and menus, a better font (monospace at least). Also it doesn't update the lists of pages in the interface.

I like the BlueCloth interface to the text, but maybe a interface like Tomboy is better.