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...
General

Sick of being sick

I've been sick since Wednesday. It peaked on Wednesday night when I had a fever of 103.4, but every night since then I've had a fever. Yesterday, my wife took me to the doctor. Amazingly, the wait was 2 hours - we actually signed...
General

Sick

On Tuesday afternoon, I started developing a cough. On Wednesday, I went to work but started to feel really bad and ended up going home at about 3:30. I drove home shaking from an obvious fever. On Wednesday night, I had a...
General

Caught up on Lost!

The one good thing about being sick is that it gave me and my wife more time to catch up on TV. We finished watching Season 1 of Lost and then went right on to watching the first two episodes of Season 2 on TiVo and the third...