[Gloucs] Topic for next meeting? "Cool hacky scripts"

[Francis Barton]

2008/10/14 Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com>:
>
> I could do a half-hour talk on my "getram" Bash script which I use to
> convert BBC Radio realplayer streams into MP3 files and then chain this
> to a horrid PHP script that converts a directory full of MP3s into an
> RSS feed. Combine this with cron and I have my very own personalised
> digital radio recorder and podcast feed, which I then connect to with my
> Nokia N95's podcatcher to... listen to the Today programme on the bus to
> work!
>


Now _that_ is cool.
I've often dreamt of doing sth like that; problem I can't write
scripts for toffee.

Francis
(randomly delurking!)