I was a bit peeved that DivX Tool (an OS X program that purports to fix corrupt and truncated DivX AVIs) couldn't fix some busted files I need to view. The Windows program DivFix did the job, But it was a pain to move the big files over to the PC every time a download had an slight error.

When I saw a hint on MacOSXhints.com about running the DivFix perl script on OS X, I gave it a shot and it worked fine. I wanted to try out Platypus, a great script "wrapping" application for OS X. Using that together with CocoaDialog I was able to whip up a simple GUI for repairing busted DivX files.

Note that it's pretty rudimentary and won't give you any error information if it can't fix your file, but it's easy to use and probably worth a shot. Download here.

In other news, applying to medical school is the least pleasant experience of my entire life. Yes. It's worse than high school gym. That's right. I went there.
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Finally settled into my new digs in the D.C.(ish) area.

Began my new work about a month ago.Not much in the way of new projects, though I have an idea for a non- traditional biological sequence editor that could be really neat. I know the way I work with sequences on the computer is often more cumbersome that simply doodling diagrams on paper. That must change, and I hope I get a chance to try out my ideas.

Spent some downtime doing renders earlier this month, and practiced a bit more with vectors, and produced the following doo-dads. I kindly request that you once again engage your pointer in clicking. Comments...

Ben Towbin has created a useful calendar tool for those humans who, like me, will be working in Washington D.C. and want to attend interesting conferences.

Add your organization's events to make it even more useful. Comments...

The gallery and other parts of the site are now somewhat operational.

I will be bringing others up throughout the week.

I'm not going to bother porting over the old news, but I might make a static archive or something. I'll have to think about how to do that.
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Like a Pheonix risen from his own ashes, we come back to life, greater than we were before...
Well, not really.


Actually just the same junk, different day.

Additional content to follow in the next few days.
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