Processing email
I used to get uncomfortable when my inbox required me to scroll. Lately, inspired by David Allen's Getting Things Done (GtD) methodology, I try to get my inbox to zero several times a day. Before you say, "I could never...",...
Author: Marc
Got Zoidberg working
After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn't working. Well, here's what I did... (more…)...
grep with color
Wow, I didn't realize until today that good ol' GNU grep supports color highlighting. Up until now, I had been installing rgrep from the jed distribution everywhere so that I could get recursive grepping and highlighting. But GNU...
Bug in Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin
The Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin is very cool, but I found a gnarly little bug in it while I was viewing this post: (more…)...
Cooking classes for kids (Bay Area)
For parents with kids, my friend's wife is offering cooking classes for ages 9 to 14 on Saturdays starting March 26. She is a professionally trained chef and likes to teach kids. There are adult classes as well. For more...
Zoidberg – a modular perl shell
I'm playing around a bit with: Zoidberg - a modular perl shell The idea of having a shell that allows Perl-syntax is interesting. The problem I am having right now is that the "cd" command doesn't work. That one is kind of a...
Bot Check for WordPress
Bot Check is a great WordPress plugin that I just installed on my site. It adds a little dynamically generated image of a numeric code that the user must type in for their comment to be accepted. It took me all of 10 minutes to...