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iPad 3 Retina Display Lock Screen – Matt Gemmell
This is a super smart idea from an obviously smart dude.
amnesty international campaign silences dictators in cake
Susan went to Cuba and told me the people who showed her their living space were arrested. These cakes seem appropriate after hearing that.
Happy Valentine’s Day
You can’t live a perfect day
without doing something for someone
who will never be able to repay you."
John Wooden
Shovel is like Rake for Python
I sure wish I had Shovel when I was doing Fantasy Surfer. I may have gotten more than 3 hours of sleep some nights.
Via Python Weekly
David Carr: What’s in My Backpack?
I have to confess I’d never even heard of David Carr before I saw this video but I love him, his bag contents and his reasons for the contents.
David Carr: What’s in My Backpack? from Columbia Journalism Review on Vimeo.
First Gist
I just published my first Gist on Github. It’s something that took me a long time to figure out. It’s how to suppress the output of the revision dropdown menu in EllingtonCMS when there are no public revisions. See it at https://gist.github.com/1177972.
I plan to add a lot more EllingtonCMS Gists in the near future. Hopefully I can save someone a lot of time.
My Current Mac Setup
Yesterday I got a message from Webfaction saying I should update WordPress since this version was insecure. It took me about 30 minutes and went pretty well. I realized I hadn’t written anything in ages so I figured I’d start by describing how I’d managed to resolve the issues in my last post “Mac Use Christmas Wish List”.
- I still haven’t seen anything that will let me tile multiple application windows with a simple keystroke. I’d like to be able to do this with Finder windows most often.
- I’m still looking for an application to move application windows from the 27″ monitor to the laptop monitor and show them all within the screen boundaries.
- I’m using SizeUp to resize and move windows using only key bindings. There are other applications that do this too. None of them allow me to change the window size from anywhere besides the lower right corner.
- I’ve given up on help docs being useful on the Mac. 99% of them are a waste of effort.
- I’ve since learned that I can open applications in the background from the terminal or even make some applescripts to do it but having apps open in the background should be the default behavior or should be configurable in the system preferences.
- I’m kind of stoked on the App Store as a way to universally update my applications. Sadly I’ve been buying and installing applications for 4 years before the App Store was available.
If I ever solve any of these issues I’ll tweet and blog about them right here.