I keep forgetting to write something about these guys. I wrote a pair of Python scripts to watch my Last.FM and Twitter friends and pop up a little bubble when something new happens.
There are Ubuntu packages available in my PPA over on Launchpad for both of these guys that should work just fine on 8.04, and hopefully will be updated to 8.10.
For those of you not using Ubuntu, my CVS repository has the scripts themselves that you are welcome to try out.
I’ve been meaning to throw this out there for a bit. I wrote a little python shim to connect mutt to Google Calendar. My particular use-case is as follows. I use fetchmail to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server at work which delivers mail into an IMAP account that I check with mutt. Appointments and conference calls show up as .ics files attached to messages. I use Google Calendar connected to my BlackBerry to keep track of all the stuff I do so I need a quick and easy way to get those events out of mutt into my Google Calendar.
Enter ics-gcal.py.
I associate this script to the ics / vcs files and simply exec the attachment from within mutt. This adds it to my Google Calendar.
You can find the script in my CVS web repository.
I’d be super interested if anyone else finds this useful.
So it looks like the svn version of mediatomb (which will become 0.12.0) now supports streaming PCM audio to the PlayStation(R) 3! This is super good news. So I went and updated my Python shim between Sipie and Mediatomb to output PCM.
You can get mediatomb-sirius.py from my CVS repository by visiting this url:
http://bagend.ub3rgeek.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/misc-scripts/mediatomb-sirius.py
Once I have the config sorted out, I will post more.
Edit:
I got FLAC streaming working, and shot a quick video of it in action.
Showing off Mediatomb transcoding FLAC to the PlayStation 3 from Matthew Ernisse on Vimeo.
Edit 2:
I got the sirius stuff working finally, had to overcome a few really annoying behaviours of all the bits involved, but it seems like it is working pretty well. You can head on over to the http://www.ub3rgeek.net/wp/sirius-on-the-playstation-3/ page for more details and another video.
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