Since this website also serves as a technology playground, I’ve recently integrated iTunes reporting. You can see both the currently playing track in my local…
The path less traveled.
Since this website also serves as a technology playground, I’ve recently integrated iTunes reporting. You can see both the currently playing track in my local…
Earlier this week on Monday, my Powerbook’s hard drive began making odd chirping sounds. By Wednesday the chirping had degraded to thumping, and on Wednesday…
I’m looking for a MacOS X GUI utility to facilitate the launching of shell scripts. Ideally, I’d like to have something running in the menu…
All I can say is — wow. This morning I’ve discovered an application for MacOS X that is simply awesome. (Ok, maybe the initial wow…
For anyone interested, attached below (in the Extended Entry) is the script I run nightly from cron that informs me by email when my current iPhoto Library is getting big enough to consider taking an action with iPhoto Library Manager to create a new one.
A couple of notes:
(1) Yes, the script uses the CLI version of PHP. I’m much more familiar with the PHP language than I am with tools like Perl.
(2) The script uses the knowledge that I name my iPhoto Libraries according to the form “iPhoto-Library-20030521”, so that the last entry in a directory listing is the currently used Library (and the one whose size should be calculated).
(3) I’ve removed the PHP delimiters from the script example, to prevent execution when you view it (since my blog is parsed by PHP).
As mentioned on Macintouch, a Cnet column titled “Steve Jobs’s Half Note”, Evan Hansen writes that the iTunes Music Store’s innovation falls far short of…
There’s a discussion going on at NSLog(); containing tips about shell aliases. I keep going back, so I thought I’d add it to my blog.
User’s of Apple’s iPhoto software will notice that the responsiveness of the application is a function of the number of images (or size) of the…
Lance Nicolas Henderson, born May 19, 2003 at 4:45 p.m. 3.8 kg and 52 cm. Mother, sister, Lance and daddy all doing great!
Interesting article about test-driven development based on an interview with one of my preferred software development authors, Martin Fowler.
bbrown discovered what must be the world’s worst looking bank website. Check out the breathing blob.
Over on Macintouch, there’s a lot of discussion ongoing about music encoding — Which is better AAC or MP3? What bit rate is required for…
Tonight was the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) championship in Malaga, Spain, in which three BJJ academies competed, Málaga, Marbella (where I train) and Granada. The good…
We use the DynDNS.org service for DNS management of some of our hosts behind non-fixed-IP ADSL connections, and had (until now) used the MacOS X-based…
Goodbye VersionTracker, Hello MacUpdate! Given the atrocious visual design of the VersionTracker.com website, coupled with the arrogant attitude of their staff towards the user comments…
My ADSL and internet service provider, Telefónica España, just installed a network of transparent proxy caches. I suspected this when last week I suddenly lost…
If you’re blogger on the Mac OS X platform, and like to include images in your entries, you’ll likely find ImageWell one of the most…
Just saw this great post by NSLog(); pointing to someone’s commentary about what life will really be like when Microsoft achieves their grand integration plans.
If you use Apple’s Disk Utility application to Repair Permissions on your Mac OS X system AND you have CommuniGate Pro installed, you’ll end up…
If you want to see what techies are capable of doing when they’ve got their hands on a lot of data and a relational database,…
Gulp. My Purchased Music list in iTunes has grown to 109 songs. My wife’s gonna kill me! I’m not sure Apple making it so easy…
As you can see, I’m redesigning the site (none of the Section links work yet.) Hopefully this won’t be a complete exercise in the name…
Just a quick note to mention that when iTunes 4 asks if you want to “Replace Existing” songs when re-encoding, what it really means is…
I’m currently reading through Mac OS X Hacks, by Rael Dornfest. It’s a good read, with some interesting OS X tricks and tips (like controlling…
With three cycling clubs in a small town like Marbella, you can imagine that its a fairly popular sport here. A friend of mine (Diego…
