Had a wonderful song collection of Old hindi songs, in the format of “somenumber title (moviename).mp3”. Had to find way to update the ID3 tag info. Opensource to help yet again.

Installed a module named python-id3, Using yum install python-id3. Then wrote a small script in python using regular expressions, glob and the newly installed MP3 ID3 tagging module

#!/bin/env python

import os, glob, re, sys
from ID3 import *

def strip(str):
	return str.lstrip().rstrip()

os.chdir('/media/Carrington/Music/old-hindi-hit')
mp3s = glob.glob('*.mp3')

r = re.compile('([\d]+(([\s])*?[\w\s]+)\s?(\((.*?)\)?)?)\.mp3', re.I)

i = 1
for mp3 in mp3s:
	print str(i) + ": " + mp3
	gr = r.match(mp3)
	#print gr.groups()

	id3info = ID3(open(mp3, 'r+b'), mp3)
	title = ''
	album = ''
	try:
		if (len(gr.groups()) >= 4):
			print "Title: %s, Album: %s" % (strip(gr.group(2)), strip(gr.group(5)))
			title = strip(gr.group(2))
			album = strip(gr.group(5))
		else:
			print "Title: %s" % (strip(gr.group(2)))
			title = strip(gr.group(2))
		
		id3info.title = title
		id3info.album = album
		id3info.genre = 'Old Hindi'
		id3info.artist = ''
		id3info.write()
	except:
		print sys.exc_info()
	
	i = i + 1

If u want to see a gmail style, “Loading” message box on ur application, its extremely simple using jQuery and CSS. All u need to know is

1. jQuery
2. HTML and good CSS, duh!

A ‘fixed’ element

First u need to have a fixed element, so u can define a div and give it css property as position: fixed;

jQuery methods to show, hide messages

U need to take a reference of the element, and then apply jQuery’s fadeIn and fadeOut method. A simple setTimeout can be set to automatically hide the message.

function notify(message, timeOut) {
	// Set the message using text method and chain fadeIn with it
	// apply simple setTimeout to fadeOut the message
	$('#boxd').text(message).fadeIn();
	setTimeout(function(){
		$('#boxd').fadeOut();
	}, timeOut*1000);
}

$(function(){
	// Wait to attach a event handler for the demo button
	$('#btn').click(function(){
		notify(new Date().toString(), 5);
	});
});

Check the attached example.

my hands are itching to write something, I don’t know what.. hmm.. Let me think. trek-a-log (i’ve been to none since long), life (I don’t really think much about it, sometimes)… perhaps something technical then..

Perhaps somebody reading this blog can suggest me, mail me @ ruturaj at gmail dot com

Kim Clijsters was back with her best, becoming the first wild-carded entry winning the US Open against Caroline Wozniacki. It was a dream run for the young Dane, Caroline. Finally Kim’s experience was just too much. It ended 7-5, 6-3

Wozniacki Serves

Kim-backhand

Wozniacki misses

Strong Clijsters

Wozniacki gets some points

Jada with her US Open champion mommy

Wozniacki still cheerful as a runner up

Wozniacki still cheerful as a runner up

Great comeback for Clijsters

Was browsing some old trek snaps from Tringalwadi Trek, Wondered if I could re-touch some of the old snaps, I have 0-Zero experience in re-touching photos, this is what I managed in GIMP

18 Jul 09 was somehow destined to be a Matheran trip, whether Vj or Saurabh made it or not. Mukti was sure she would come, so was I. Luckily Paapad and Hemant (hempat) made it as well. Some snaps

Probably Mukti or Vinay could add a li’l travelogue for this one.

In a speech by US president, Obama

Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America,

Government programmes alone won’t get our children to the promised land – we need a new mindset, a new set of attitudes

Indian minorities and politicians must take a cue from this new President.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8155077.stm

It was my first introduction to the HTML and web development, my first hosted page, http://www.geocities.com/ruturaj_v. Which over few years had become something like this

Unfortunately, today I got a mail from Yahoo saying that they just don’t love geocities anymore and would be knocking it off on 26 October 2009.

As it goes down, It will take down numerous of other websites that had spawn on its platform, some of which just because they couldn’t bear the heavy costs before year 2000.