Where does this wire go?

I’ve been fighting a problem for a while. I use IceWM as my window manager. One feature I like is that I can open a window in a specific desktop. I have desktops named “NAV”, “Music”,”Weather” and I wanted to open a specific program in each one. My problem is that two of the applications are written in python so if I specify python as the application then both applications will start in the same desktop. My work around is to make a symlink to python called musicpython and weatherpython. Doing this and adding #!/usr/bin/musicpython at the beinging of my music program and #!/usr/bin/weatherpython at the beginning of the weather program allowed me to start them in their respective desktops.

I have wireless broadband for my car.   I also have a gps unit.  So I decide to combine the two and get current weather (well not second by second but relativly current.)  I wrote a program for Linux in Python using wxpython and the python-gps libraries.  It basically contacts noaa and requests the weather based on the location retrieved from your gps.

I wrote this for carPCs but I guess you could use it on a laptop while you are traveling.

My program to get weather using gps

For the last week or so I’ve been programing a very crude music player customized to the way I want to brows for songs. I pretty much have it complete and am just fine tuning it. If I ever get it to the point that I’m happy with it then I’ll put a link to it here.

I am also looking into implementing text to speech so I can have irc in the background without having to take my eyes off the road.

It was a fun day today.  My wife and I went to a carpc meeting to meet up with some people from the mp3car.com forums.  The attendance seems to be growing as we had 5 cars and 7 people show up.  Granted one of the people that went was my wife who just smiled and put up with the geeks.

We sat in the parking lot we met up at for an hour or so looking at each others setups and hung out and chatted for about an hour.  We then got in to our vehicles and caravaned over to the park for the BBQ.

ViViper1 supplied pretty much all the food.  We had loads of fun trying to cook it though.  We couldn’t get the charcoals to stay lit.  We had heavy winds which made even lighting a lighter difficult.

After what seemed hours we got the food on the grill and a little while later we were eating dogs and burgers.

We sat around and talked about car computers, cars,  and just stuff in general for about 3 hours and walked back to the cars.

We sat at the cars for a few minutes while people looked at my hybrid just to see what was under the hood.  After that it was a quite ride home as we listened to steaming music on the carpc.

Here are the few photos that I took.

lburton and ViViper1 cooking burgers

lburton and ViViper1 cooking burgers

ratio of lighter fluid to coals? About 1/2 can to 15 coals.

ratio of lighter fluid to coals? About 1/2 can to 15 coals.

lburton, rogerdugans, Eileen(my wife), and f1vlad

lburton, rogerdugans, Eileen(my wife), and f1vlad

Pictures from rogerdugans

I created a page to day with some pictures of my car and carputer set up. My carputer and car pictures.