Sorry, there isn't much to my website.

Blog

My blog is at OneManClapping. I manage to update it now and then. It is a mix of my thoughts relating to technology, music and life.

And it will probably bore you to tears.

Family

I keep all of my family photos reasonably well updated. Nicole logs family events in her blog.

A few notes about the pictures:

The pictures reside on a server in my basement, which is different than this website. If my internet connection is down (bad weather, bad service, etc., the pictures will not be available.
The feed you see represents the pictures as we have taken them. Little to no effort has been made to make them presentable (orientation, cropping, buttcracks, etc.).
After plugging my camera into the computer, everything is automated by a few tools I have created. The quality shows.
If you're really curious, you can see the source to the bash scripts I'm referring to. They wrap an ImageMagick tool called convert.

Fun

We came into possession of an 1968 Apache Mesa tent-trailer in 2008. We are currently in the process of restoring it.
I am a total garden nerd. I've studied old-style french kitchen potagers and have created my own. Lots of links on the blog if you're interested in that kind of thing.

Television

MythTv is a homebrew DVR (like TiVo) project that I am a big fan of. I built my own system in 2006 and have been quite happy with it. I kept a detailed record of my setup and installation/configuration experience.

A listing of what's on TV tonight in my house (and what is getting recorded). This is a dump of what gets generated by Mythweb, but with all references to the system it runs on removed (so web crawlers cannot delete my shows or otherwise mess with my system).

The best feature, by far, is the commercial autodetection and skipping. I have hardly seen one since I've started using it. I find it strange to think my children will grow up not having any real exposure to television advertising.

Music

I listen to music all day long while I am at work. This has turned me into quite the critic. To get a sense of my tastes, you should visit my Last.fm profile.

But I figure you're too lazy to go to last.fm, and hey, I'm a programmer. I've created software that fetches my 10 most recently listened to songs and makes them part of this here web page. It gets updated every 10 minutes. Here goes...

Song	Artist	Album	Played
Smoke	Bedhead	Beheaded	2008-09-05 16:50:52
Judy	Pravada		2008-09-05 16:45:05
Atlas	Pravada		2008-09-05 16:41:15
Nonpareil of Favor	of Montreal		2008-09-05 16:16:49
2 Blonde Braids	Mount Eerie	Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie	2008-09-05 16:12:08
Wooly Mammoth's Absence	Mount Eerie	Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie	2008-09-05 16:08:00
All Over Again	Locksley	Don't Make Me Wait	2008-09-05 16:04:00
Some Are Lakes	Land Of Talk		2008-09-05 16:00:33
So Fast	Julie Doiron	Loneliest in the Morning	2008-09-05 15:57:43
Happiness	Church		2008-09-05 15:55:49

Many thanks to the folks at Musicbrainz for supplying the links.

Noob python source code: pull.py, markup.py.

Code

My intention is to populate this area with bits of my own code. As you can tell, I'm not very prolific.

Before there were any high-quality Java ID3 libraries, I created a low-quality library.

Jardig is a utility application I wrote that scans archives (jars, zips) for a specific java class. It even supports the ability to scan archives of archives. Once upon a time it was quite handy at resolving build misconfigurations that only revealed themselves at runtime.

Tagfriendly is some code I have abandoned. It is capable of parsing a FreeDB CDDB archive and converting it into a relational database. Further, it takes the relational database and coverts it into a Lucene text index via Solr. Once you have the index there are lots of useful things you could do with it. I used it for fixing ID3 tags (see above). I also kept the Solr config files.

Contact

I use gmail. My username is gdusbabek. You can figure out the rest, spambots cannot.

Updated 27 August 2008