I'm focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I'm most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it's one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH'd …
I'd been hearing a lot around about Twitter, so I thought I'd give it a try. So far the only person I'm linked up with is K., but we're finding it a really fun tool. I'm twitter.com/schof. Feel free to twitter me.
When I was 11 years old, and camping with the Boy Scouts on Catalina Island, I was raped by my Assistant Scoutmaster.
Last night at my group therapy session, I had a shocking realization. (I've often thought that instead of its current title, my poetry "book" should be called "My …
The folks behind Subversion don't produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.
I found a different binary at Martin Ott's site. I have no …
It's time to become a code ninja.
I've been looking at the long list of technologies I need to master for work. (And quickly!) I've also been looking at the even longer list of technologies I'm interested in and would like to study in depth.
Clearly, I can't do it …
I downloaded a file called procrastination.doc from 43folders or Lifehacker or one of the other personal productivity sites I follow. It's been sitting on my desktop since the beginning of April, and I've been meaning to read it.
Somehow I found that funny. I just printed it out. We'll …
So I'm trying to do an install with debootstrap onto a virgin partition. From my custom Ubuntu-based distribution. And I get the following error message:
E: Couldn't find these debs: 33024830
The error code itself is not Googleable, because it apparently changes for each install. (I got several different …
So I've been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I'm pretty impressed. It's a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take …
So I just upgraded my office computer from a dual-processor G5 to a new "Quad-Proc" ((Of course, it's not REALLY quad-processor. It's two dual-core processors. But it's still really fricking cool.)) and I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move my files over. Pulled the hard drive from my old Mac …
(Noted as changes from default settings)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Shell --> Close Only if the Shell Exited Cleanly
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Display -->
Cursor Style: Block + Blink
+ Anti-Aliasing
Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular 14
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Color -->
Black on Light Yellow
Transparency (Half a stop from far left)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Window …