Folks may or may not have noticed, but last week I made a long-wished-for technical change that hopefully has improved both the stability and functionality of the site.
The process I was using previously to update and upload the "now playing/recently played" html file was causing the program that runs the stream on my computer to crash periodically. I had been trying to figure out a fix for some time, but finally gave up and last week put a new process in place. This new method is proving to be far more stable (no crashes in about 5 days, knock on wood) but also has another advantage.
The previous process used ID3v1 tags to update the page. The problem was, these tags truncate fields (e.g. song title, artist name, album name) after 30 characters. The new process uses ID3v2 which holds longer fields. So longer album names like The Legacy of Tommy Jarrell Volume 2: Rainbow Sign now come through intact instead of being truncated to The Legacy of Tommy Jarrell Vo.
All of which makes me very happy.
John
May 17, 2005
May 2, 2005
More twins pics
I haven't been taking enough pictures -- one of the things you discover pretty quickly when you have twins is that there's not much time for anything else! Not that I'm complaining, mind you...
Anyway, these are from a couple of weeks ago but they're nice pictures of our boys asleep in our arms on the front steps.
James:
Will:
You can't see it here, but James has very long, delicate fingers. I'm thinking fiddle...
John
Anyway, these are from a couple of weeks ago but they're nice pictures of our boys asleep in our arms on the front steps.
James:
Will:
You can't see it here, but James has very long, delicate fingers. I'm thinking fiddle...
John