Where Are The Wise Men?

I googled around for how to join a string in a shell and I found a very cool recipe:

function str_join() { echo “@*”|tr ‘ ‘ ‘:’ }

I’ve never used tr before. This goes back on the list of old-school UNIX commands I need to do [...]

The real story is here.. From jwz.

Leah had the flu on Monday, and I have been fighting my allergies all week. Then, on Wednesday, I got my flu shot. I didn’t feel too bad on Wednesday night, but things weren’t good on Thursday morning. I worked from home in the morning, and then the fever hit. On Thursday [...]

The paper printed my letter on Thursday. I didn’t even know until a co-worker as me about it. And someone on the evening bus cut it out and passed it around.

They didn’t butcher it too much — but they did take out the part of the wheel falling off. And the heading [...]

I may just buy from Zappos.via kottke.orgPowered by ScribeFire.

I wrote my first Greasemonkey script this week. I consider this a big step in my JavaScript self-education.  The script wasn’t complicated.  I’d post it, but it was for an internal report that I’ve been working with so it really wouldn’t be worth your time. The report is a list of customer and some information [...]

I wrote a letter to the paper on Sunday night about Omaha’s bus system. Due to recent “major events” in the state, it probably won’t ever get published. So I’ll put it up here in case a city council member reads my blog.

This wasn’t everything I wanted to say, but the World-Herald [...]

It seemed to be robot night at the Hostetler’s. Leah wanted everyone to push her button and she became a robot. Then it was my turn. Then it was Gina’s turn.

Gina commented on my robot voice. I said, in my best Dalak-inpersonation, “I watched a lot of Dr. Who..”

I’ve been using Aquamacs more and more lately and, properly configured, it’s more or less like TextMate. In some cases better, and worse in others.

I pretty much use Icicles for loading all my files, switching buffers, etc. With the color scheme I was using, it was impossible to see Icicles’s completions. So [...]

No, note another lunar eclipse but a totally different Eclipse.

My mother-in-law is a Pampered Chef consultant and needed some help with their consultant application called “The Pampered Partner”. As I was mucking with it, I felt something familiar about how it started up, etc. Then I saw that it left some files called [...]