Archive For August 16th, 2005

How to convert from WMA to MP3

Converting Windows Media Audio files into MP3 format is rather easy with mplayer and lame. My car stereo plays MP3s, so WMA is of no use to me! This code is based on this script but I have to wonder why they overwrote the wma file? Piping the output of mplayer into lame is left [...]

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Cobh Peoples Regatta, 2005: part 2

Following on from the fireworks in Cobh and my look around the Jeanie Johnston, here’s some photos of the late-night concert that took place in Cobh town center. The crowd went a little mad dancing and singing along to this crazy looking band! Anyone know who they are? More photos after the jump..

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Aboard the Jeanie Johnston

The Jeanie Johnston is a replica of the ships that made the difficult journey to the United States during the Irish Famine in the 19th Century. It was docked in Cobh at the weekend and Ronan (pictured below in the galley) very kindly gave myself and Justin a tour of the ship! Thank you Donogh [...]

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31 Days to Better Blogging

I paraphrased, but here’s a growing collection of blogging tips which will be added to over the next 2 weeks!

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Welcome to WordPress.com

Looks like Matt has started giving out WordPress.com invites. Hmm. Only one per person, who would you give your invite to?

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