Month: October 2005

TiVo (with 3 months of free service) for Nicole’s parents

This weekend at Best Buy you get a free 3 month service gift card. So we talked Nicole's parents into getting one and I set it up for them last night. In addition to the TiVo, we needed to buy them a wireless phone jack adapter,...

GtDProductivity

Managing waiting for/delegated emails with procmail

I have a new approach for streamlining the management of things that I'm waiting on something from someone. My particular implementation uses procmail, but the approach could easily be adopted to other types of mail systems -...

General

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival

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General

To save money, don’t print your photos at home

Just found this on Lifehacker, which in turn found it from the NY Times. The gist of it is that printing at home costs around 28 cents per print whereas there are services that can do it for as little as 13 cents. This is due to...

Mac

Mac program: Platypus

I don't yet have a use for this, but this sounds like something that will come in handy someday... It's open-source software (GPL) that lets you wrap scripts (shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.) with a Mac OS GUI. (more…)...

Productivity

Donald Knuth doesn’t have email

I just noticed that Donald Knuth doesn't have email. For this Internet-addicted guy, that sounds really awful and yet positively delicious at the same time. Not having to deal with email - that would be a wonderful thing. Right...

MusicProgrammingWindows

Tech talk

Did a tech talk today to show off a few Yahoo! Music Engine plugins and then show folks a bit about how to create their own. I wasn't expecting to be well enough to get up there and talk, but I'm feeling decent today so I did it...