News You Can Bruise for 2005 November 23

Family over for pre-Thanksgiving dinner, which was fun. I made fried polenta with blue cheese, which it's probably good that I don't make it a whole lot. We also had some molasses spice cookies I made which were really good.

Today I found out how to parse an ID3 tag out of an MP3 file, and I put that information into a Ruby Cookbook recipe on binary file manipulation. It's actually quite easy so long as you limit yourself to the original, 128-byte ID3 format and stay far away from the overdesigned ID3v2. The "2" stands for second system. Ooh, snap!