I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out.

Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere …

The official Chrome Extensions page is coming and soon I'll be seriously considering making a switch to my default browser setting. While Chromium (the open source component of Chrome) is a fantastically speedy, low memory and nimble browser it's lack of extensions if the main thing holding me back from …

A couple of stories recently have gotten me thinking about the process of doing science and how it may change in the coming years. The current approach is to spend time doing your research and once your happy you have a defensible theory you write a paper explaining what you …

Wow, I actually found something that netcat can't do.

--- netcat-openbsd-1.89/netcat.c        2009-11-20 17:44:40.000000000 +0000
+++ netcat-openbsd-1.89.patched/netcat.c        2009-11-20 17:43:35.000000000 +0000
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@

 /* Command Line Options */
 int    Cflag = 0;                              /* CRLF line-ending */
+int    cflag = 0;                              /* CR line-ending */
 int    dflag;                                  /* detached …

There are literally hundreds of scripts and tools for encoding stuff to various compressed video formats. However I was never able to find something that did exactly what I wanted and until recently just did everything from the command line with mencoder. Eventually I got tired of the copy and …