I’ve decided to use Lucida Sans Unicode for the IPA portion of that Thai alphabet chart I’m working on. It’s coming along very well and is almost done, and (IMHO) it looks very nice.

Got copyright clearance for The Story of Mormonism and submitted it to Project Gutenberg. We’re going to re-do part of the PG Software Site in PHP/MySQL. Should be pretty fun.

The Story of Mormonism has been posted on Project Gutenberg as etext #5630. Sweet. Oh, my friend Byron will be maintaining Blank Slate while I’m gone on my mission in Thailand. He’ll be posting weekly updates and pictures from me.

Got the video and audio streams from the UUG meeting last night converted into usable files. I recorded the audio stream in XMMS using the DiskWriter plugin (writes to wave), fixed the wave headers using Wavelength, then touched the files up in Audacity (I had to remove some noise and amplify the sound as the volume was quite low). And finally I converted them to Ogg with oggenc. To capture the video stream I just ran wget on the URL and it kept downloading the stream into a multi-part JPEG file. I then wrote chop.pl which chops the file into individual JPEG files. Finally, I ran ffmpeg on them, producing an MPEG. It all worked out quite nicely.

I worked on some flyers for the UUG (for our installfest and club booth and free software giveaway, all next week), using OpenOffice Draw (which is quite cool). My only complaint is that OpenOffice wouldn’t import an EPS file I had. (I tried converting it to WMF as well, but that didn’t work either.)

Discovered Mutt aliases today. Wow, they’re cool! Much nicer than having to type long e-mail addresses. I really like how it’ll expand more than one e-mail address (e.g. john, george will expand both, not just the first). Very, very handy.