10 ca�10 vinos and some hacking

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 05:27 -0400

Thursday night I went out with lot of friends, doing a tour for Madrid ancient bars. From 9pm till 7am. 10 cañas 10 vinos, 2 gintonics and a capininha (at my so beloved parnasillo). I can remember me playing some tango at a broken piano. We ended the night at Why Not? and drinks are now 8 EUR.

Movies: I watched Spider-Man 2 and it kinda better than the first one. Simple plot with not so plain characters, funny and spectacular. I'd hope that every commercial of action movie would be like this one. Really funny the scene of Michael Novotny actor with Spidey at the elevator. Oh, I cannot wait to watch Hellboy, an adaptation from the great Mike Mignola comic.

Sports: Paco Mancebo is the last Spanish hope for this Tour. Go, go go!

Hacking: I fixed some bugs in gconf-editor, and made it to search asyncronously. Now I only need a way to cancel the search in progress:

Also I had time to finish my muine cd burning patch. It works pretty well (only with gstreamer!) and tries to be very simple. For example it only asks you to select a recorder drive if you have more than one, only prompts you for a temporal directory if it doesn't have enough free space... (oh, I need to guess how to check if a directory is writable in C#!). Final things before sending it to muine list:

Check that music fits in current blank disc
A dialog saying your CD was recorded, asking for eject it (and maybe a checkbox for removing temp files)
General dialog HIGification (and maybe adding some animated icons during recording, waiting for blank media and so)

If you want to try the patch (against current CVS), remeber to remove the CDRECORDER_DUMMY_WRITE flag

Oh, this is a pretty picture David took in Ariel Rot concert:

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10 ca�10 vinos and some hacking