TV shows tonight
shows on tonight – click for large
The place I found out about TV Rage,
TV Calendar says it also uses
EPGuides.com,
so maybe they have iCalendar data I can use?
Worst case I can write a quick CGI script to read XML from TVRage and convert it to iCalendar on the fly.
Seems like a lot of work to go to though..
Update:So, along with the screenshotted shows…
- House
- Greek
- Gossip Girl
- The Big Bang Theory
- How I Met Your Mother
- 24
- Heroes
- Saving Grace
- Medium
- My Boys (back for seaon 3!)
- The Listener (new show)
- Castle (new show)
Books to read
Posted by rae in entertainment
at 10:15 am on Friday, 20 March 2009
I’m finding it harder to find good hard SF books to read.
One recent “find” was Charles Stross, a friend of Cory’s who he’s worked with.
I’m just going to put a list of books to look into here, possibly updating it over the next while.
at 10:15 am on Friday, 20 March 2009
- Charles Stross, “Saturn’s Children”
- John Varley, “Mammoth”
I guess this would be an ideal opportunity to use my Amazon Associates thingee, but I’d have to dig it up out of email. Ah well.
Here are Amazon.ca links:
Mammoth,
Saturn’s Children.
Why Qt 4.5 is a really big deal
Okay, this will be a post about software development, but I’ll try to avoid using jargon in explaining the impact of yesterday’s release of Qt 4.5. So first of all, what the hell is Qt? Well, it’s a software library that allows programmers to easily write programs that run on Mac, Windows, Linux and even cell phones. If a developer want their code to run on all these platforms without using something like Qt, it often means man-years of work, and platform-specific oddities can arise, such as Adobe not having a 64-bit version of Photoshop on the Mac (because they use Code Warrior’s PowerPlant on the Mac, which is no longer supported except as an open source project). Qt is also an extremely powerful and fast library, which is not often the case for these kinds of things. Ok, so what’s the big deal with version 4.5? Until yesterday, if you used the Qt library, you had to either:
- release your application’s source code to the public under the “Gnu Public License” (GPL), making it Free Software, or..
- pay a lot of money (thousands of dollars) annually for the Qt “commercial license”
Hmm, I really should cleanup this blog..
It’s looking pretty sad at the moment. :-/ It’s because I haven’t fully recovered pics.tnir.org, so there are missing graphics here and there. Maybe I will just use a pre-canned theme so that it looks ok or something. My main problem is that I turn off Wordpress’ “translate returns intotags” auto-filter, which isn’t a setting. I have to hand-edit the PHP code every time.