Archive for October, 2007
Gravity hammer ftw
A gravity hammer to the back of my boss irl. Killing spree!
Read the rest of this entry »Sensible defaults
From today’s Sensible Defaults file is this gem. This comes from the Entourage app in Office for Mac 2004 when you want to delete a meeting from your calendar. In my case I have a recurring daily meeting that I occasionally cancel based on everyone’s workload. The default behavior — what Entourage is assuming — [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Signs of winter
Every day it’s a bit brighter in the yard when I go to work. Unfortunately, it’s because all of our shade is disappearing from the trees and landing in the yard. Here’s the 5 day, from my Mac Dashboard weather widget. I love these temperatures, but it’s all downhill from here.
Read the rest of this entry »Mac gripes
Here’s my ongoing list of Mac gripes. Comment if you have solution or recommendation. * I want the cursor to come along when I do PgUp or PgDn in a document. * Entourage: doesn’t have a Mark As Read hotkey? * Alt-Tab vs Ctrl-Tab vs Command-` vs Ctrl-`. Then iTerm uses Command-LeftArrow and Command-RightArrow. I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Jersey Shore
Our first trip to the Jersey shore. Three days, three nights of near-perfect temperatures; clouds when we wanted clouds, sun when we wanted sun; beer; sci-fi books; lots of seafood. It was good. Click here for more beach photos.
Read the rest of this entry »My frustration with mkisofs runneth over
Consider this directory structure: 519 (a build #) 519/unixfile1 519/unixfile2 519/windowsfile1 519/windowsfile2 519/docs/User Guide.pdf 519/docs/Install Guide.pdf Want I want to do is create two ISO files. ISO1 will have UNIX-specific files and the docs. ISO2 will have Windows-specific files and the docs. I want unixfile1 and unixfile2 to be at the drive’s root, with the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Halo 3 so far
Having fun with Halo 3 so far! They even have this feature that lets you review old games and snap screenshots. Here are a few from a game I played last night with some other people. Click in to the photos for more detail. Once in the photo, click All Sizes –> Original for best [...]
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