diary weekend 1-2 Oct 2011 Dublin

This week on my bike to work Wed! 1st time in more than a year I think! And local trips to rehersals. Kate rollerblades to school Wed+Thur+Fri. Very warm weather. Gets a bit wet Fri+Sat+Sun morn.

Thur. Rehersal Fugue for Tinhorns. Facebook Glencullen fundraiser event.

Fri eve
Presidential debate half compelling on late late show. Fionn falls asleep for it though.

Sat
Up 9:30. We all go collect G&G from train. Motorway is wet. Big puddles on streets of Dublin. Then on to Raheny. Arrive with plenty of time to spare at 10:30. We go to church when rain abates a little after cleaning some of the inside windows of car with tissue. Grubby.

In church we light some candles. Kids explore a bit. Family collects. 5 or 6 babies being baptised. Maeve follows the words in the prayer leaflet. Pretty much. Except for the bits that are pluralised. And the lots the priest adds in. And the odd changes "Do you reject Satan and all " .. that stuff. "I do."  "Do you believe" .. "Humm. No". Small kids are a bit active in church during ceremony and after. I take photos with various other people's cameras. After church we go to restaurant "Ten Fourteen" opposite South bridge out to Dollymount. Passing a BIG puddle. Parking tricky. Nice food. After visit Hugh's place then home.

Fionn & I go out and visit Martin in evening. Home 1/2ish? Tired!

Sun

Up 9:30, bring Daire down to Benildus and round to pitch for soccer. Then home. Fionn brings Kate to GAA. Rugby. In 2nd half Ireland get a good few scores and win comfortable enough in the enf over Italy. Housework tidy kitchen and hang/put on wash. Later I cycle down to meet Kate after GAA. Daire's match gone into extra time. 2-2 draw evewntually after they being 2-0 up at one point. Kate & I cycle around to the soccer. At home Fionn cooks potato and veg to go with beef slow cooked stew. Nice.

Kids in the rest of the day despite it being pretty fine outside and lots of other kids playing outside enjoying what might be the last few outside playable hours of the year. Clothes hanging outside a bit iffy all day. Very wet whole day underfoot. Though it drizzles just a couple of times in morn. Kids inside busy though. Snap circuits and jigsaws come down. Electricity fun. Baloon egg minding/rugby game. When cooking/working I sing very loud Fugue for tinhorns (pretty much learned) and Hiring Man song.

Daire finally gets down to project for school. Last request of "can I go out" blocked by Fionn as 2 week project not started due tomorrow. Since Fri I have been aware of it starting to loom in status of not even started yet. Now it's 11pm and he's spent since ~2pm in his room ostensibly and actually on it. In fairness, he mostly never needs to be chased and does work autonomously mostly before playstation or heading out with friends happens. Working printer was reported to GPs as part of reason it wasn't started. Resulting in investigation. Black cartridge not in at all. That refilled. Need to wait 24 hours though. Scanner tutorial for all family after 8:15pm pasta + tuna&sweetcorn tea.

Vasco seems interesting though nasty enough on his later expeditions!.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja52T1hn3kYOxoPaLw8Dm1yIMPeS2pHMgBsBO1dfgNdptzu4PGz4hkgtcrPXFNnyB4WvguCxuML-Il5B19iOb0aDmIuA_o3d31mkbv3Y2lflg4004R9PMhi65D9hbj06wO-P02b6Jund3P/s1600/1573_Teixeira+-+low.jpg

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ostensible

ostensible 

1762, from Fr. ostensible, from L. ostensus, pp. of ostendere "to show," from ob "in front of" + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).

At the moment am reading:

Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett

Roughing It - Mark Twain.  ***** very good. 

 (on phone)

Have recently read: lots of various things on phone:
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad.
Among Malay Pirates: A tale of Adventure and Peril - G. A. Henty.
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling ******* fantastic
Deathworld - Harry Harrison
The Gun - Philip K. Dick
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

And real books:
Some of Kate and Maeve's books.
We got an inline skating book for Kate in library. She hadn't really known books outside the fiction/story section. Some of Daire's books.
Rashomon.
Too many others.

svn ci -m"svn helper script to maintain 'Pristine' workspace area and do faster checkouts" svncoP.sh svnmaintainP.sh

#!/bin/bash
# svncoP: svn co using Pristine workspace (faster!)
#
#Svn command-line co or updates are slow on big svn repositories becasuse they do each file sequentially.
#TortoiseSvn and other clients are a little bit more clever I think and have an element of multi-threaded/parallel checkouts.
#In the past I used a cron to maintain a .pristine. copy of large svn.
#And a helper script when I needed a checkout.
#
#The way it works:
#Cron does regular cleanup and svn up and makes archive of the pristine workspace.
#Helper checkout script unpacks archive of pristine workspace, unpacks it in new place, then does svn up in there.
#
# 22/9/2011 James Coleman

PRISTINEDIR=~intregress/pristine
if [[ ! -d $PRISTINEDIR ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: pristine dir:$PRISTINEDIR is not set up"
  exit -1
fi
project=$1
if [[ "$project" == "" ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: USAGE: $0 "
  echo "e.g. $0 lab"
  exit -1
fi
if [[ ! -e $PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk.tbz ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: pristine workspace:$PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk.tbz is not set up"
  exit -1
fi

DTS_START="$(date)"
S_START="$(date +%s)"
echo "DTS_START:$DTS_START"
tar -jxvf $PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk.tbz
DTS_UPSTART="$(date)"
echo "DTS_UPSTART:$DTS_UPSTART"
cd $project
svn up
cd ..

DTS_END="$(date)"
S_END="$(date +%s)"
echo "DTS_START:$DTS_START"
echo "DTS_UPSTART:$DTS_UPSTART"
echo "DTS_END:$DTS_END"
echo "svncoP project:$project Total time taken: $(($S_END - $S_START)) secs" |tee -a $PRISTINEDIR/svncoP_${project}.log



#!/bin/bash
# svnmaintainP: cron script to maintain 'Pristine' svn workspace
#
#Svn command-line co or updates are slow on big svn repositories becasuse they do each file sequentially.
#TortoiseSvn and other clients are a little bit more clever I think and have an element of multi-threaded/parallel checkouts.
#In the past I used a cron to maintain a .pristine. copy of large svn.
#And a helper script when I needed a checkout.
#
#The way it works:
#Cron does regular cleanup and svn up and makes archive of the pristine workspace.
#Helper checkout script unpacks archive of pristine workspace, unpacks it in new place, then does svn up in there.
#
# 22/9/2011 James Coleman

PRISTINEDIR=~intregress/pristine
if [[ ! -d $PRISTINEDIR ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: pristine dir:$PRISTINEDIR is not set up"
  exit -1
fi
project=$1
if [[ "$project" == "" ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: USAGE: $0 "
  echo "e.g. $0 lab"
  exit -1
fi
if [[ ! -e $PRISTINEDIR/${project} ]] ; then
  echo "FAIL: pristine workspace:$PRISTINEDIR/${project} is not set up"
  exit -1
fi

DTS_START="$(date)"
S_START="$(date +%s)"
echo "DTS_START:$DTS_START"

cd $PRISTINEDIR/${project}
svn up

DTS_TARSTART="$(date)"
echo "DTS_TARSTART:$DTS_TARSTART"
cd ..
tar -jcvf $PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk_new.tbz ${project}
mv $PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk_new.tbz $PRISTINEDIR/${project}_trunk.tbz

DTS_END="$(date)"
S_END="$(date +%s)"
echo "DTS_START:$DTS_START"
echo "DTS_TARSTART:$DTS_TARSTART"
echo "DTS_END:$DTS_END"
echo "svnmaintainP project:$project Total time taken: $(($S_END - $S_START)) secs" |tee -a $PRISTINEDIR/svnmaintainP_${project}.log

handy script to add mp3 title/info to mp3 files. add_mp3info.sh

I am listening to Irish CD that Kate brought home and fixing up some .mp3 file info. Using this script I made earlier (25/12/2009).

#!/bin/bash


# Retrospectively add mp3 info into mp3 files.
# Based on directory name and file name.


# usage:
#~/mp3$ add_mp3info.sh */*/*.mp3
#~/mp3$ add_mp3info.sh -f therapy/*/*.mp3
# WARNING: doesn't work for other directory levels
# TODO: oops, doesn't work if leading ./ or anything leading.
# BUT: is safe enough, it won't overwrite existing mp3info (unless -f FORCE flag is passed)




# e.g.
# artist_name/album_name/01-track_title.mp3 does not have an ID3 1.x tag.
#find . -name *.mp3 -exec mp3info {} \; |less




FORCE=$1
if [[ "$FORCE" == "-f" ]] ; then echo foo; shift; fi
#for f in tom_waits/*/*; do
for f in $*; do
 info=$(mp3info "$f")
 if [[ "$FORCE" == "-f" || "$info" == "" ]] ; then 
  echo "Adding info to file:$f"
  artist=;album=;title=;track=;
  artist=${f%%\/*.mp3}
  rest=${f#*\/}
  album=${rest%%\/*.mp3}
  rest=${rest#*\/}
  title=${rest%%.mp3}
  title=${title##*-}
  track=${rest%%-*}
  title=$(echo $title|sed "s/_\([a-z]\)/ \U\1/g" |sed "s/^\([a-z]\)/\U\1/")
  artist=$(echo $artist|sed "s/_\([a-z]\)/ \U\1/g" |sed "s/^\([a-z]\)/\U\1/")
  album=$(echo $album|sed "s/_\([a-z]\)/ \U\1/g" |sed "s/^\([a-z]\)/\U\1/")
  params=""
  #[[ "$title" != "" ]] && params="$params -t \"\$title\""
  mp3info -t "$title" -l "$album" -a "$artist" -n "$track" -c "badgers are lovely" "$f"
 fi
done


# TODO: oops, doesn't work if leading ./ or anything leading.
#/home/jamesc/bin/add_mp3info.sh: 24: [[: not found
# so this won't work:  find . -name "*.mp3" -exec add_mp3info.sh {} \;


# to get meta info from music/video files generally (if it is there): exiftool





A couple of other handy snippets:




# fill in fixed  mp3 info into file, increment track number as you go.

track=1

function mrfle1 {

title="$TTITLE"

f=$t

mp3info -t "$title" -l "$album" -a "$artist" -n "$track" -c "is maith linn broc" "$f"

track=$((track+1))

}




# rename track files according to title (replacing non-alpha-numerics for thefile name)

function mrfle {

f=$(echo "$TTITLE"|tr "[:punct:][:space:]" "__").mp3

mv $t $f

}




gimp/inkscape tickets/poster for Gala Show

This year is a very important birthday year for the Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society. The 40th Anniversary of the society is being celebrated with a Gala Show * * The Magic of Musicals * *.

Rehearsals have kicked off with great energy. There is some lovely music to be heard in St. Tiernan's School on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and indeed from inside cars and bathrooms around the area the whole week long! Younger members have started working on some old favourites from Oliver! and Scrooge. For teenage and adult members rehearsals have started with chorus numbers from Oliver!, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, Calamity Jane, Chess and others.

Well done to everyone who came to auditions for solo parts on Thur 15^th Aug. The production team is pulling together the songs and the comedy and drama pieces and the exact order will be set in the coming weeks. Thanks to all who gave input into the selection of pieces from the show!

The show will run at the Mill Theatre in Dundrum from Wed Nov 30 to Dec 3. Please see our poster for details.

Director: Tom Ronayne, Musical Director: Gerry Connolly Choreographer: Helen McCann

omlette, fried potatoes, daal and my first tempura.

I cooked more than usual this weekend.

There was omlette yesterday. Whew it was spicy! (using up some cute looking chillies). Lots of potatoes. Cube. Fry. Add some other veg: some leek and chilli.  Out from the pan with all. In with the egg. Back in with potato. In with sliced tomato. Finally top with cheese.  Later on cook some pasta Kate liked the omlette, Maeve ate some but not too much and Christy didn't like it.  Fionnuala and James looved it. Yum.

Today fionnuala painting hallway. Daire back from camp and Kate from GAA so warm food needed. Fried potatoes worked. Wash and slice potatoes. Blanch. Fry in oil (and remainder into oven with the sausages. Also cauliflower with cheese and beans for the dislikers of cauliflower.

This evening daal + savoury rice and tempura.

I'd never made tempura before. Slice items. Roll items in seasoned flour (and some oats). Dip in egg. Deep fat fry. Items: mango, apple, courgette, one mushroom, leek, carrot, pasta, melon. An odd collection. Using up some things that needed to be used up. Lovely light coating of batter results. I used quite a small saucepan. Fry things  ~6 at a time. Low heat on smallest ring.

Definately good fun. I still have the oil :) Other random things must be chopped and tempura'd.

At end of session oil was inclined to bubble up and froth over. Over onto the lit gas. Except I didn't let it. Torn between wanting to see an explosion of flames and self+house preservation. I do presume hot frothy veg oil would go *foom* for me quite nicely.

For Daal: chop leeks, fry in pan, add daal (green and orange today), add chilli, add garlic, daal curry spice mix, tomatoes, butter. After a bit add water and then simmer for 30 mins.

lighttpd so easy to set up :)

Working sat night examining test runs and results.

I have script that processes results and spits out some URLs.
It runs in Hudson using ssh plugin.
When on from home the link to URLs (like file:///wherever) don't work.  :-(

So ...

# Google lighttpd install.   http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/installing-and-configuring-lighttpd-webserver-howto.html 

#Get lighttpd src.
mkdir ~/src; cd ~/src;  wget http://lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.13.tar.gz
tar -zxvf lighttpd*.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.13 

#Configure build/install. Hmm. Need to configure to install and run from user area. Configure.
echo $HOME
./configure --prefix=$HOME/src/usr --sysconfdir=$HOME/src/etc --datadir=$HOME/src/usr/share --localstatedir=$HOME/src/var
mkdir -p $HOME/src/{usr/share,var} 

#Build and Install
make; make install

#Configure lighttpd to serve up test results dir, port 8888, allow dir browsing, log access area.
cp ~/src/lighttpd-1.4.13/openwrt/lighttpd.conf ~/src/etc/lighttpd.conf
vi ../etc/lighttpd.conf

-#                              "mod_accesslog"
+                               "mod_accesslog"

-server.document-root             = "/www/"
+server.document-root             = "/projects/__TEST_RESULT_AREA__/"

-# accesslog.filename          = "/www/logs/access.log"
+accesslog.filename          = "/__HOMEDIR__/src/www/logs/access.log"

-#server.port                = 81
+server.port                = 8888

-#server.dir-listing          = "enable"
+server.dir-listing          = "enable"
  
diff -u ~/src/lighttpd-1.4.13/openwrt/lighttpd.conf ~/src/etc/lighttpd.conf

#Run. 
cat > ~/src/runlighttpd.sh  <<EOT
cd ~/src
./usr/sbin/lighttpd -f etc/lighttpd.conf
EOT
~/src/runlighttpd.sh 

# Browse results. happy dance. 

Weekend at Roundwood House, Co. Laois.

Weekend at Roundwood House, Co. Laois.
Callan family get-together.

Loads of books.
Lots of lovely old and a bit wonky door handles.
And a poor old old piano we were allowed to open up and try and help a little.
Needs lots more work.
Keys were fallen out and down and catching on other keys.
Board + leather sandwich + keys stuck back on needed.
Replacing and fixing up the strings looks liek it could be quite hard.
And how does the tuning work?  The pegs don't really look like they turn?

Trip through the Slieve Blooms and visit bog park.
http://www.loughbooraparklands.com/

Trip up the hills and short walk.

Monicknew woods/river look close but we didn't quite get htere:
http://www.coillteoutdoors.ie/index.php?id=54&trail=124&no_cache=1
http://www.coillteoutdoors.ie/index.php?id=54&trail=125&no_cache=1
http://www.coillteoutdoors.ie/index.php?id=54&trail=133&no_cache=1

http://www.roundwoodhouse.com/Recreation.htm#walking
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216736632193507650192.0004ac7476fd48c190c44&msa=0&ll=53.078765,-7.555847&spn=0.116938,0.323067


http://www.slievebloom.ie/index.php?page=slieve-bloom-way

Map 1 - Glenbarrow to Capard and Glendinoregan

Map 2 - Capard to Monicknew

Map 3 - Monicknew to Glendine



http://www.irishtrails.ie/trails.aspx?c=Laois