Monthly Archives: November 2005

Tiger in a nutshell

Nope, not literally – this is a mac geek thing. Got a copy of Mac OS X Tiger in a nutshell today, so in between baking, mixing, and stiring I took a look. I was actually disappointed not to see … Continue reading

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ginger bread and pumpkin pie

The pre-thanksgiving cooking has commenced! Tonight is ginger bread and pumpkin pie prep. Gotta bake those pumpkins down first, although it looks like we won’t be getting 6 pies out of this batch. I think the real pie baking will … Continue reading

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textutil

Mac command line stuff – did you know about textutil? I didn’t – not until I read the article at OReilly this evening. That’s a cool program! (I already knew about tidy and opendiff)

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ESS spec for sync and share

Normally I ignore the microsoft hype engine when it comes to that latest “open standard” that Microsoft is proposing, but this one caught my eye: SSE. It’s really a pretty simple spec (GOOD!) on how to detail attributes for adding … Continue reading

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Bitchen about Perforce

I’m watching through the Evening at Adler, and I just caught Wolf’s anti-tag on Perforce. I never had any particular bitch with Perforce myself except the cost, so that was really intriguing to me. So while I was hunting for … Continue reading

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Surreal

If today gets any more surreal, I’m going to scream.

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Amusing Google Maps remix

Although I’m not hip on getting an XBox 360 immediately (I want to wait and see with this one, and the games aren’t that compelling to me), this Google Maps remix of where inventory resides nearby is pretty cool.

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Stargate Atlantis, not so good.

I was doing some walking last night and watched Stargate Atlantis off netflix. Hey, you know – it was science fiction, and it gives me something to do while I’m walking. As far as episodic science fiction goes, well – … Continue reading

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Now this is amusing…

This is what happened when I went to the URL http://connect.apple.com this morning: When I reloaded, the apple developer login page came up normally, but I’ve never seen an error page that read: “No Error”.

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debugging bindings

Michael McCracken has a delicious link that I thought was incredibly useful tonight, so I wanted to share: Troubleshooting Cocoa Bindings. While the bindings are cool, debugging and troubleshooting when code is using it is a real pain. Yeah – … Continue reading

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