This is a great place on Castro Street in Mountain View for tapas and other, assorted Latin and Spanish-style cuisine.
Last night we finally tried the Cascale Paella – wow, it was good!
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
WordPress Plugin: WP-Amazon
This is a nifty WordPress plugin for finding content from Amazon.com and inserting it in your blog posts, optionally with an associates id, so that you get credit for the referral.
Just read Julie Morgenstern’s new book
I just finished reading this book a few days ago:
There is some very nice info in here on how to make sure that your goals are aligned with your boss’s, how to concentrate on the things that really matter, and how to stave off interrruptions (“nibblers” as the author calls them). In particular, I found her advice about avoiding email in the morning to be extrememely useful. Reading email definitely has a tendency to distract and especially in the morning it seems to get the day off to an unfocused, non-productive start.
Listing your Firefox extensions and their UUIDs
Here’s how to list your Firefox extensions and their UUIDs :
14:11 Marc@Toshiba-Laptop:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Marc
/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
/8louy9l2.default/extensions$ grep em:name */install.rdf |
perl -ne 'if (/({[0-9a-fA-F\-}]+})\/install.rdf:\s*
<em:name>(.*)<\/em:name>/) { printf("%-40s: %s\n", "$2", "$1"); }'
Phew! 🙂
Some handy UNIX shell tools
- tzls and tzx – Quick extraction and content-listing for archives such as tar.gz files
- fff and ffl – Quick, case-insensitive file-find with unquoted wildcards
- bd – Backup with Date appended. Copy the specified file(s) to the same name, but with a textual date/time appended
- nss – New (Bourne) Shell Script. Creates a skeletal shell script
The cygpath to enlightenment
If you have a Windows path name and want to go to that path in a Cygwin bash shell, here’s how to do it:
$ cd "`cygpath 'C:\Documents and Settings\Marc'`"
Since this may be hard to remember, here’s a handy bash function:
cdw ()
{
cd "`cygpath "$1"`"
}
Note that you still have to enclose the argument in single quotes so that the shell doesn’t mangle it: e.g.:
$ cdw 'C:\Documents and Settings\Marc'
The Abilene Paradox
Another term mentioned in Thursday’s project management class. Here are some links that I found on it: