kepstin

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What, you were expecting me to put something here? Well, I guess I should say hi…

I’m Calvin Walton (kepstin is my internet handle), a fan of various sorts of Linux, Photography, the programming languages C and Perl, Japanese Anime and pop music, etc. Currently employed by Blindside Networks, where I’m working on the BigBlueButton open-source project. You can find me in Ottawa, Ontario. (Canada, if you didn’t know.)

Also find me on social network pages and other sites around the internet: check out the list on my Links page.

  • Music in Review, 2011

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    So, what did I spend 2011 listening to? As it turns out, quite a lot. This is the first year that I’ve had a portable music player capable of holding (nearly) my entire music collection, and I have a habit of listening to everything on shuffle. That said, a few things managed to stand out.…

  • Stuff I Can’t Afford

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    Aw, man… Why did HIMEKA have to come out with a new album right now? himekanvas [w/ DVD, Limited Edition] If I calculate that up, it’s nearly $60 with shipping to where I am in Canada. Maybe I can convince someone to get it for me as a Christmas present? Who knows :) (Why yes, I am…

  • Expensive SD cards: Worth it.

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    So, I just bought a cheap 16GB SD card today. My original plan was to use it as a replacement to the failed flash drive in an old EeePC laptop. (As it turns out, the SD card reader in said netbook is broken, so the plan failed.) But I got curious; what benefit do you…

  • Riker 0.1

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    I have now created a distribution file for Riker 0.1. It’s not a music player yet; instead, it’s a proof of concept for two things: Using gstreamer to read tags from files, and using Vala bindings for libmusicbrainz4 to perform a query on the MusicBrainz webservice. Get it from the Github Releases page. If you’re…

  • Fall 2011

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    Going back to school has really ate into my Anime watching time. I suppose it’s all for the best, but my Anime Tierlist sucks this season, because I haven’t seen very much. So it’s pretty simple: Worth watching even if you’re really busy Fate/Zero Shakugan no Shana Final The second half of Mawaru Penguindrum Tamayura…

  • Vala Bindings for libmusicbrainz4

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    When developing Riker, I had a bit of a choice – I could either write (from scratch) a new library to interface with the MusicBrainz XML webservice, or I could create bindings to access the existing libmusicbrainz library from within Vala. Up to today, I’ve gone a little ways down both paths, and both have problems. If…

  • Mercurial Frustrates Me

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    Maybe I’m just used to having too much power at my fingertips. Git was designed, from the ground up, to provide operations to do absolutely anything to a repository, right down to the most basic level of manually creating individual objects in the repository. Using user-visible command-line tools that can be operated from scripts. It…

  • Summer 2011

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    This season honestly doesn’t look that great. But there’s a few multi-season shows which I am continuing to watch, and a couple of new things on my radar. Here goes: Yes Usagi Drop — A rare thing; this show is actually, legitimately cute without being stereotypically moe. Steins;Gate — Continuing. It has me quite hooked. Hanasaku…

  • Kepstin’s Q2 2011 Anime Tierlist

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    Hmm. Some interesting stuff this season, mixed in with some less interesting stuff. I’m bored, so I simplified the list even more! As always, this list will change once I actually start watching stuff… (There’s far too many things on the “Awesome” and “Yes” lists right now.) Don’t forget to also check out AnimeNewsNetwork’s Anime Preview…

  • Kepstin’s Q1 2011 Anime Tierlist

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    Instead of making up arbitrary numbers about how awesome (or not) each show is, I have simplified the rating system based on a simple measure: How likely am I to watch a new episode of a show when it comes out? Here’s the ranking. Updates whenever I feel like it. Check back later, collect them…

  • Version 1.0 released

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    This is the initial release of the waitproc tool. Download it from the Github Release With the SHA-1 checksum: 68fa23ee77abef48552ab9d82819fa9fece36f2b waitproc-1.0.tar.gz