Where Are The Wise Men?

While Blaine starting to attend the Church of Emacs I’m sorta having a crisis of the faith. I’ve been working on a Rails project lately and have gotten re-acquainted with Textmate again. I remembered why I liked it so much — it’s project mode is perfect for the many, many files of Rails. [...]

I was oh so happy a little while back that NetNewsWire was released for free (as in beer).  I liked NetNewsWire before but didn’t think that it was worth the $30.  Well, now I can still use it!  It’s fast (yes faster than Bloglines, Google Reader, etc) and you can post to del.icio.us straight from [...]

One of my goals for 2008 is to get more organized — to accomplish the thing that I want to instead of forgetting about them when I can do them and then remembering them later when can’t do them.

I’ve flirted with GTD before and I really like it.   The problem I had was that I [...]

Tim Bray is saying what I have been saying for years.  And he notices that people are happier to move away from Windows, which I, too, haven noticed.Gina has a friend that is really into photography and has taken note on how much Gina loves our Mac.  So she’s sold — but her husband wasn’t.  [...]

Here are three tools I’ve discovered recently, at least two out of three came from FreeMacWare.com.

Deskop Manager — This is a virtual desktop manager. A lot of people have discovered this already, so I’m a late-comer. The latest stable build is for 10.3, so it runs in Rosetta on my Mac Book Pro. It runs [...]

So I got to thinking over a short break from work (and blogging) that I should re-evaluate my Emacs usage on OSX. Aquamacs’s latest is based on Emacs 22 and I’ve been doing more and more tweaks of Emacs at work to try to get it like my TextMate setup at home.  There are a few things that I [...]

As I’ve said before, TextMate is becoming my killer app on OSX. One thing I have been missing is a way to edit files over SSH. Emacs has Tramp, which works very well. I googled around and noted that the TextMate list had mentioned MacFuse as a way to accomplish this.

I [...]

My parents came over on Saturday to do some computer work. My mother needed a presentation done and I only had a vague idea what she wanted. Little did I know that she had just a vague idea as well. What she wanted was a set of pictures of “sandhill cranes”:http://www.savingcranes.org/species/sandhill.cfm [...]

I have considered iTerm one of my must-have OSX apps since I first got my MacBook Pro.  But I haven’t always kept it up to date.  On Friday evening, my MBP was running very, very slow.  I started shutting things down and, when I stopped iTerm, things sped up tremendously.  I usually have iTerm open [...]

Another event in the Hostetler House this week — the MacBook Pro got a new fans put in. Because one of them was badly, badly broken.

It actually started a couple weeks ago when I went into Leah’s account and got Safari to run in Rosetta (Why? Because NickJr.com requires Shockwave. ) After that, [...]