Sound Juicer Update
Wow, the feedback from Sound Juicer has been great. I did a Debian package, Frederic Crozat (@mandrake) did Mandrake package, and a Gentoo package is being worked on too. Two different projects (lymric and net-Rhythmbox) have both stated that they would like to integrate with Sound Juicer. Rock!
Feature requests, and better yet, patches, come in every day which is nice. I hope to get 0.2 out fairly shortly, with an UI to set the extract path, bug fixes, and a dependency on GStreamer 0.6.1. 0.3 should allow you to set the format for the ripped file. Beyond that, I don't have a plan...
I'm Engaged!
I did one more thing in Rome... I asked Vicky if she would marry me. Thankfully, she said yes!
This, obviously, led me to becoming The Happiest Man In England. If you see someone rushing through London with a ThinkGeek Caffinne t-shirt and a huge grin, it's probably me!
At the moment we are looking at a summer wedding in August 2004. A jazz band, fairy lights, barbecue in the evening, honeymoon to Italy and other fabulous ideas are planned.
Rome
Just got back from Rome -- a truly wonderful city. Everyone should go there, as it is lovely.
Our unique hotel was just off Campo de Fiorri (excuse the spelling, I don't have a map with me), with a roof terrace on the sixth floor overlooking the city. Our days basically involved getting up, having breakfast, spending half an hour on the balcony just looking at the city, then walking around the city until lunch, eating pizza, more walking, back to the hotel, rest for an hour, restaurant, hotel, bed.
The ancient Roman remains are amazing -- the sheer size of everything is amazing. The Collosium is large, the Roman Forum is just huge. It seems that everywhere you go in the old town involves walking past ancient pillars, column and walls, idly sitting on corners and in walls.
We also went to the Vatican. We went inside, and spent the next half hour in complete awe. It's huge, and intricate. Marble and engraving and statues and artwork on everything and anything. Right up there on my list of Groovy Churches.
We took three films of photos with our new Canon EOS-300V camera, when I can get my scanner to work I'll put a few online.
