Hacked on a perl script that will allow me to update the SNFC Website, the community, and the SNFC Mailing List with one email (thanks procmail). Automated posting to Craigslist will be a bit trickier, and to be honest, I think I can settle for a two-part process every week as opposed to the 5-part process I use to have to deal with.
Stayed home on Tuesday, threw out my back (shoveling, I guess). said I ruined Boston for him, but he might be happy to know that on Monday, after all that bitching, I not only found a parking space as soon as I returned to Boston, I got the very same space I shoveled out on Sunday/Monday. I didn’t even “save the space” with a cone or a sawhorse (something I found out today is LEGAL, which sounds like total bullshit to me).
The commute in today took 2.5 hours, which is pretty out of hand. I was pretty cool with it though, I couldn’t really do anything about it, and so I just listened to the radio/iPod and engaged autopilot. Almost had like 3 cars hit me, but my stunt man background paid off and I avoided crashes. Just as I was getting off of Soldier’s Field Road this Porsche SUV and a Minivan got into a bit of a tussle, I actually think they tapped fenders… The uber-yuppie in the Porsche decided to try and sneak around the left of the minivan, when it clearly didn’t have enough space. The minivan boxed the guy out, and the Porsche lost his shit and they started jockeying for position, etc. It was fun to watch, but all they were really doing was slowing down my commute further and making it dangerous, so I intervened, pulling along side the minivan at an opportune point and blocking the Porsche behind us. The minivan was quite pleased with this arrangement. I left work early today so I could have a better chance of getting parking… I hope it warms up just a little bit so some of this snow starts to melt.
I set up MovableType for the new Sunday Night Film Club webpage because I was feeling incredibly lazy… Of course, it looks amazingly generic, but I don’t care, really… Perhaps a members with some graphic design/html skills will volunteer their services or something. It’s not that big of a deal, I’d rather have a generic looking page that provided the necessary information than a page that wasn’t updated for months before going down the toilet completely.
Anyone have any experience programmatically posting to Craigslist?
I went out at like 2pm yesterday to dig my car out somewhat so I didn’t have to do it all this morning.. That took about 1.5 hours… This morning I had a dentist’s appointment at 8:30a, so I woke up at like 7:20a, took a quick shower, and went down to re-dig out my car (as I knew it’d be plowed in again). I was right, but the snow today was much more dense than yesterday so it was a backbreaking exercise… I was kind of a dick and dug my car out JUST enough to get it out and on the road, I should have cleared out the spot, but I was late for my appointment as it was.
I made it there nearly on time, only because I found easy parking in Cambridge… They took care of business, and I was out of there in 90 minutes. I had my crown installed and two out of three cavities filled. The remaining cavity will be filled next monday. Hopefully now that I’ve started flossing daily my teeth will be less of a problem. It took an hour to get from there to work, most of which spent getting through Alewife and onto Rt. 2. I forgot to bring the faceplate for my car stereo, so it was a frustratingly quiet drive… The quiet drive home is going to suck too…. I am not planning on staying here too late today, though, as I am going to need to find a parking space in Brighton…
Looking out the window this morning I can’t help but feel justified in my decision to avoid Rochester this weekend…. They are saying this storm will total out at 28-38 inches. That’s a good-god-damned amount of snow!
I have had these AVI files on my disk that I have been unable to delete for weeks… I did some hunting and apparently there is some bug in this shmedia.dll that causes some AVI files (possibly only Divx ones?) to be undeletable. I found a few hacks that let me delete the files by killing explorer.exe and deleting them in the shell when it wasn’t running, but I wanted to fix the actual problem and not have to work around it all the time. It turns out if you delete the following registry key will prevent the offending DLL from loading:
I have no idea if this has any negative ramifications, and mucking around in the registry isn’t for the feint of heart, so YMMV and don’t blame me if your computer explodes.
