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We had our second and third baseball games today. Well, five innings of the third, but it still counts. We played Mona Shores in a double-header. We lost both games, first 13-10, second 10-7, but we played a lot better. I went 1-4 in the first with a single and a run, and 1-2 in the second with a double and a walk. We still have tons of room for improvement (who doesn't), but we're looking a lot better.

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The problem with Spring Break is it gives you just enough of a taste of summer that there's no way you want to go back to school. Oh well.

I just did some more work on the mp3 player. If the file has an embedded ID3 tag, the player now logs that info instead of the filename. Now I just have to put ID3 tags on all my files... fun, fun, fun...

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More work on the mp3 player... I changed it to write to a MySQL database so I can read it from a Perl script. I've set up a little demo page here. It shows the last 10 songs I've listened to.

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i recompiled x11amp today and it started leaking memory. I took that as inspiration and started my new mp3 player frontend. I've been looking around for a player that would output the filename of the current song to a text file so that I could include it somewhere here (sort of a "what I'm listening to right now" type thing), but I haven't been able to find one. So I'm writing a frontend to mpg123. Right now it opens a playlist, randomizes it, plays mp3's, and writes the text file. Not a bad start for 15 minutes of work, but it's still got a long way to go. I'm planning on a GUI using Gtk::Perl if I ever get around to it.

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As you probably notice (unless you're visiting this very brief expanse of wasteland for the first time), the layout changed. I finally got Gimp re-compiled (after who knows how long of trying), so I'm experimenting. I don't know if I like it yet... Let me know what you think.

It's Spring Break, and I'm loving it. Now if the weather would just get better...