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Archive for December, 2004

Forced Vacation

I decided to pull up the holiday schedule for work yesterday and noticed something. “Vacation time cannot be carried forward.” On the first of the year, my remaining vacation time goes poof. There are no policies in place for paying back the time, so I’ve opted to do the only thing I […]

My wife rules

We spent our traditional Christmas day with Dena’s parents. It was a fun-filled day of food, cookies, and naps.
I got some awesome gifts that I just have to share.
There was an envelope sticking out of The Works of Victor Hugo. I was shocked to find two tickets to Les Miserables (my favorite musical), […]

EMP: Import is done

Happy Holidays and all that jazz Best wishes to all my friends and family, wherever you may be.
I finally finished integrating the import code tonight. The screenshot below is fresh and showing newly imported data, no more hand-built libraries!

I need to rename this to the “Library Manager”, since it’s really (going to be) […]

I’m getting closer to the 0.1 release of EMP. I finished writing the code to import music this morning. There are some optimizations I’d like to make (mostly, spinning off the reading metadata off to a worker thread), but right now it takes just over six seconds to scan and import 248 songs. […]

emp - easy music player

I’ve talked about other music players in the past. I’ve done some hacking on Rhythmbox and worked on some iPod-related stuff. I’ve tried many different players and found myself wanting something more. I like bits and pieces of each player, but none that I think are great (no offense).
I decide […]

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