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Archive for October, 2007

Work

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Gravity hammer ftw

A gravity hammer to the back of my boss irl. Killing spree!

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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 — [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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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