Chasing My Own Tale
Amy and I were discussing the reported anti-semitisim in Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and I was looking up some stuff on the The Jefferson Bible, and the site had this line, apparently from Jefferson,
“He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.”
Nicely written.
Found this at Apple’s site:
Wrapping a Command Line Application with a GUI Interface:
“If you just need to run a shell script by double-clicking it, and have no need for a GUI, you can simply rename the shell script to end with .command and it will open in Terminal automatically.”
Not quite automatically, as I did have to modify the “Open With…” association, but at least I now have one click access to my qtplay music player, which saves me the GUI overhead of running iTunes.
Next up: a quick calendar display:
> #! /bin/bash
> cal
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So I checked the error logs on a whim, and found this:
[Sep 21 17:51:00] [client 209.218.1.2]
File does not exist: /dwelling/images/haircut04.jpg
[Sep 21 17:50:53] [client 209.218.1.2]
File does not exist: /dwelling/images/haircut01.jpg
Ah, so someone was looking at my haircut pictures. But wait. They were poking around hard enough to try and find pictures I didn’t post. I posted haircut03.jpg and haircut06.jpg, but the other images aren’t on this site, they came from Amy.
But who was it? The hit came from an IP address owned by New Edge Networks. Trying to hit the IP address with a browser give me a sign-in dialog that may be part of an HP networking device of some sort.
Well, if someone is really interested in seeing my face, let me know and I’ll be more than happy to chat. (Still seems kinda weird though.)
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http://www.ordersomewherechaos.com/uptime.txt returned “success”.
It was last reached by Uptime at 2004-09-20 07:07:40 (Eastern Time (New York)).
Currently our database thinks it is 2004-09-20 18:47:00.
In other words, your server has been unreachable for approximately 699 minutes.
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Oh… well okay then.
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From http://forums.devshed.com/t166611/s.html
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This should be cross platform compatible.
From a client:
I passed the screen shots onto the training cd developer. So far, so good. At this point we need anything else, but I will know the status for sure as we keep working on the training cd.
Of course, it’s after the delivery of the screen shots that I find this…
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15966
which will create good sized screenshots in one fell swoop, instead of having to get 4 or 5 separate screen captures stiched together.
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“This is a collection of actual senior photos that I found on various senior photography gallery websites.”
Because… Seniors Rule!
Posted as a comment on a Forwarding Address: OS X post regarding teleport.
My use case:
My B&WG3 is running various apps all the time for me, but my primary Mac is an iBook. When I get home, I put the iBook on my desk shelf, next to my G3’s monitor and plug in the power cord.
[Unfortunate part] I open up the teleport.plist file in BBEdit, delete the contents and save the file. I open up System Preferences, load up the teleport pane, and toggle the “Activate Teleport” checkbox twice: Once to off and then back to on. Now my iBook shows up in the screen setup area and I drag it into place and close System Preferences. [/Unfortunate Part]
I then have a full size (ADB Extended Keyboard II) and wireless mouse attached to my iBook without abusing my USB ports each night. It’s almost like having BlueTooth keyboard/mouse pieces, except I can switch back and forth to my G3 so easily.
[Unfortunate Part]…As long as I remember to avoid the right-hand shift key which doesn’t work, though the left shift works just fine.[/Unfortunate Part]
I would love to be able to skip the plist deletion/System Pref reset and the shift key issue, but I’ll work with it because it makes my life that much easier.
RO: amy and I went to the timbers/sounders game in seattle yesterday.
KB: how was it!?!!
RO: that was a heartbreaker
RO: timbers lost in ot
KB: ahh.
KB: I hear that jake has been yellowflagged all season.
RO: hmmm. not that i know of.
RO: I think yesterday was the *first* one all season…
KB: oh.
KB: hmm.
RO: yeah the sounders were playing really nasty.
RO: you know it’s bad when the refs walk onto the pitch carrying Sounders duffel bags
KB: oooh.
RO: so that was the end of the timbers season
KB: so sad.
KB: now what?
RO: we were supposed to have homefield advantage, but the beavers kick us out of PGE park.
RO: I guess wait for next year and root for the Whitecaps to defeat seattle in the playoffs this week.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the amount of sheer venom in this year’s presidential race comes from simple mathematics that both parties have already understood.
Here’s the size of the undecided voters: 2% of the US population, about 4 million voters.
“Gallup’s last three polls say that as few as 2 percent of the electorate is undecided” – Bloomberg
Here’s the percentage of voters who didn’t participate in the few couple of presidential elections: 48% of the US population., about 99 million voters.
“Eligible voters who voted – 1992: 55.1% – 1996: 49.0% – 2000: 51.3%” – Infoplease
Where would you put your energy? Convincing 4 million to vote your way, or energizing half of the 99 million to simply vote?
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