Archive: scripting

I LIKE stamping things with the date, whether it's a status report email or filename. (Like say I've downloaded todays news in Spanish, it really seems to make sense to tag it as spanish_news_12_8_08…

Recently I've run across a realmedia stream that I really want to convert to mp3 (mainly because my portable player can't read rm files. I'll talk about capturing rm streams in another post, but this…

If you have a linux machine and haven't ever made use of sed (stream editor) you're missing out on a great automation utility. I've saved myself probably 20 hours of manual editing with about an hour…