Nifty Boredom

I suppose I should have mentioned it ...

Russ — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:57:00 GMT

I have a new blog intended to replace this one. For whatever reason, I cannot get dotText to export my posts correctly. I plan on keeping this site up for a while, but all new content is at: http://russ.unwashedmeme.com/blog.

Trac Tab: My First Trac Plugin

Russ — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:27:00 GMT

I wrote my first trac plugin! You can read a bit about it here:Trac Tab. It just allows me to easily add new tabs to the mainmenu in trac that point to trac pages with an Iframe inside pointing somewhere else. We are using it to link to our billing software from inside of trac, so now our trac project for a client, can have our billing software more closely at hand. Yay!

Newest Drink Sensation

Russ — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:46:00 GMT

The best way to make frozen "girley drinks" : popsicles. Just blend and add booze. Genius.

My First GreaseMonkey.

Russ — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:13:00 GMT

My First Greasemonkey Script allows tabbing and antitabbing in all textareas.

A Musical Meme

Russ — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:10:00 GMT

Fine Fine after a 2 weeks procrastination and 2 invites... I give you my almost entirely random answers

Total music: Between 50 and 100 gigs spead all over everywhere (Work/Home/CDs Yet to be ripped. Its really hard to give a better guess since there is a lot of overlap between places)
Song playing now: Nathan talking over Carmina Burana's quiet parts.
Five Pieces of Music that I listen to a lot or just that I like alot
1. The Complete Works of Miles Davis ( This isn't really a single piece of music, but I figure with all of the other "Complete" Miles box sets, it's just a matter of time. Top place goes between Kinda of Blue and Bitches Brew )
2. And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails (The song or the Album your choice.)
3. Binaural - Pearl Jam (This is kinda a temporary thing since I like pretty much everything they put out. This is just what Ive been listening to most, recently
4. Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
5. A few things to hear before we all blow up - Williamson (this is the most peaceful techno I've ever heard)

A few people that I forward this meme onto:

Hidding Stuff in an image again.

Russ — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:27:00 GMT

So taking Kents advise today, I rewrote the bmp thingy to produce pictures that much closer match the source image when hiding. No more nasty distortion, just good clean image hiding.
Here is the comand line .Net app.

File to Bmp and Back again

Russ — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:35:00 GMT

Ok so I added a little header so I could do precise file lengths and allow the conversion of any file to bmp and back again successfully. I know this is basically retarded but hey, I had fun. Here is the comand line .Net app.
[>>bmp "filename.???" to "someName.bmp" ]to convert something to a bmp.
[>>bmp filename.??? from somename.bmp ]to pull the file back out of the bmp.
[>>bmp ? ]will list all the command options

UPDATE: This program now allows you to embed any file inside of a prexisting image using the commands:
[>>bmp < file1.??? > hidein < anyimage > as < out.bmp > ] to hide a file inside of an image
[>>bmp < file1.??? > unhidefrom < anyimage > to extract a file from inside of an image

The Images produced are 2-3 times larger than the original file(you are hiding) and depending on the image you are hiding in and the file you are hiding can be anywhere between a fairly faithfull likeness of the original image or a really hideous canvas / pixelation filter applied over and over again.

This is an example of the output. This has been converted to JPG to take less space (and since .Text apparently doesnt like large bmps). Make sure you zoom in if you dont want to see the artificial distortion vs the distortion that makes up the file.

Not so Lost

Russ — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:01:00 GMT

Ok so I was up late when i wrote the mp3 to BMP converter. Now that I'm awake, it works like a charm. Here it is, my "art" based on Beck's Lost Cause.

A Lost Cause

Russ — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:09:00 GMT

So we were shooting the shit today about whether or not I could copyright a number. This lead to the idea of converting mp3's into viewable art files that could then at a later point be turned back into mp3. In my very early experiments it has not worked out so well though I do like the noise that I get out of the MP3. The BMP had much brighter colors in it.
Heres a sample