Once in a great while I come across artists and uploaders who still distribute tracks as .wav .. This is great if you wanna do some editing and what-not, but I'd rather turn a 70MB into 9MB for the sake of space. Here's a quick one-liner as an example
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This results in original-file.mp3 , a high-quality 320 kbps VBR MP3.
Wasn't that much easier than opening some GUI-intensive bloatware in Windows?.. Just one of the many reasons why *Nix is awesome.
Keeping this one short because I'm feeling kinda lazy.
Just pushed a few things to BitBucket.org so far. Still not used to using Git but its coming in handy and keeping things organized so hopefully my brain catches on. https://bitbucket.org/pnd4
Trying out CherryTree too. I usually only post things I feel havent been covered too much so this thing doesn't become too convoluted. All my little snippets and comments to myself I keep in a digital notebook at Evernote. But I wanted a way to back it up and one with syntax-highlighting or if not, at least support for preformatted text. So far its pretty nice and if you're interested in the idea you might wanna check it out for yourself.
Also been loving the TweetDeck Chrome-app for managing my Twitter/FB. Seems like Facebook doesnt support reading the main news feed as RSS though (although it once did ::sadface::). Tweetdeck is the next best thing. But Im going to eventually try using fbcmd to do something similar since the amount of advertising on Facebook is getting outta hand.
ttfn
Well, here it is.. my first post of 2013, located on my own domain from the awesome NameCheap.com, on a freshly set up Virtual Private Server by ChicagoVPS.net. So much thanks goes out to my Tita Fe, Tito Ram, Mom and Dad for funding this. Its been 2-weeks and already the experience has taught me so much more than simulating it on my local network.
As usual, I've been busy.. powering through the new year's weeks learning about stuff and trying it out. This week I gave my desktop a facelift: desktop's color scheme, revamped DWM and learned a little bit about Mercurial and Git version control systems along the way. Now my focus is on the website so expect to some changes you can see..
Happy New Years 'errbody !