bashGeneral

Blast from the past: Sniglets

I'm reminded today of Sniglets. I grew up in the 1980s watching lots of HBO, so Rich Hall's little segments from Not Necessarily the News occupy a special place in some dark corner of my cerebrum. I can still remember to this...
Mac

Side effect of the switch

I noticed one annoying side effect of the switch. I used to be able to hold down the control key while tapping the trackpad on my PowerBook to get the equivalent of a right click - e.g.: context menus in Firefox and Finder....
General

Fallout Boy

I guess the lyrics of that annoying Fallout Boy song are in fact English (I was starting to have doubts): We're going down, down in an earlier round And Sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A...
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BugZooka!

The one drawback of the recent warm and dry Bay Area weather is that it looks like the beginning of spider season... This morning we got our first use of our BugZooka. A little spider in the bedroom was sucked and then let free...
EmacsMac

Made the switch

After deliberating for a while, I've finally done it. Yes, that's right. Like a true Emacs geek, I've swapped my "caps lock" and "control" keys. I could see that this could be nice once I get accustomed to it, though for now I...
bashEmacs

Having a bash with bash

Let's say we want to write a command that allows you to take the output of the previous command and stick it in your editor so you can page through it, save it, email it, etc. One way to do it is with bash's "process...
General

Bloglines is now pingable

You can now ping Bloglines via XML-RPC or via a web interface. More info at http://www.bloglines.com/services/api For WordPress, you just go to the admin panel | Options | Writing and add http://www.bloglines.com/ping to Update...