From http://wordly.ios.findmysoft.com/:
Wordly is a fun and easy to pick up word game that will put your vocabulary to the test and will entertain you.
What we like
Simple controls
Nice graphics
Entertaining word game
Facebook and Twitter integration
Online leaderboards
Affordable
There’s a Mac and Windows version as well
I’ve always loved the song. I have always sort of wondered if it was a true story. Well, here’s the scoop:
From http://www.thesuburbs.org.uk/Board/index.php?topic=6106.0:
http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2010/09/16/glen-phillips/
Glen Phillips from Toad The Wet Sprocket was on the Adam Carolla Show today and played a new song. Adam asked what it was about, and GLen said it was a story a friend told him happened to him a long time ago. Oh, and that friend is Ben Folds! Anyway, they spent a little time talking about Ben, whom Carolla absolutely loves. Do yourself a favor and check out the podcast! Now if only he can book Ben as a guest ..
I like oh-my-zsh a lot, except that it rebinds ESC-. to do “..\n” and that is irritating as I really like the default of it inserting the last word from the previous command.
Here’s how to get it back:
bindkey '\e.' insert-last-word
I put this in my ~/.zshrc file.
For a previous Xbox 360 achievement junkie, this is pretty nifty.
Buildout is a pretty useful tool, but the documentation is somewhat lacking. I needed to have specialized buildouts for dev and staging that extend a more general buildout. I couldn’t find this in the buildout docs, but I found it here.
In my case, I needed a buildout for staging that omits software that we already have installed via RPMs. Luckily it’s possible:
$ cat staging.cfg
[buildout]
extends = buildout.cfg
eggs -=
pyodbc==2.1.8
psycopg2==2.4
coverage>=3.4
As you might guess, += and = also work and do what you’d expect.
To open a port to an EC2 instance, do:
ec2-authorize -p <port number> <security group> (from any machine with the ec2 command-line tools)
sudo /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport <port number> -j ACCEPT (on the server)Speaking of iptables, here’s:
The first small modest step towards writing an Ubuntu One client, if I ever get the inclination to do so:
$ curl --user $UBUNTU_ONE_USER:$UBUNTU_ONE_PASSWORD \
> "https://login.ubuntu.com/api/1.0/authentications?ws.op=authenticate&token_name=Ubuntu%20One%20@%20$HOSTNAME"
{"consumer_secret": "...", "token": "...", "consumer_key": "...", "name": "Ubuntu One @ ...
(See https://one.ubuntu.com/developer/account_admin/issue_tokens/cloud/)