While waiting for DirectNIC to respond to my support request email and fax (I’m sure they’ll be getting back in touch with me any minute…
The path less traveled.
While waiting for DirectNIC to respond to my support request email and fax (I’m sure they’ll be getting back in touch with me any minute…
Nice thing about a weblog is that it provides a place to vent… Recently I agreed to purchase a domain name from a user of…
If there’s one thing I really enjoy using the Palm for, it’s reading ebooks. Things have improved so much since I first gave ebooks a…
Alex Harper, the author of the nice MenuMeters utility for MacOS X recently helped me solve a nagging problem: Sometimes newly installed PrefsPanes simply wouldn’t…
My thumbs are cramping — my neck is straining — my wife is giving me that look — but I’m WIRELESSLY BLOGGING FROM THE LIVING…
I’ve been an avid cyclist, cycling fan and Lance Armstrong fan, since, well, longer than I prefer to remember or state here. So you can…
My wife and I each have a Macintosh on our home network, yet for the longest time we’ve been unable to share information such as…
The plane arrives late. We wait 45 minutes for the baggage to arrive in the terminal. The airport staff try to place a living room…
I’d nearly forgotten to post how the story with the mobile phone ended. Actually, everything turned out just fine. I arrived at the agreed meeting…
Got up this morning, looking forward to my bike ride, and discovered that our phone line was out… So, I figured I’d call Telefonica from…
My Irish buddy Niall really needs his own blog, because he’s feeding me all my content! Have a look at this hilarious comparison of Europe…
Just happened on this very interesting educational article, associated with the use of the Mathematica software.
Bare Bones Software has released Mailsmith 2.0. Whoo hoo! Integrated support for PGP, Integrated support for SpamSieve, loads, and loads, and loads of improvements and…
Another gem from my Irish buddy Niall O Broin. Yet Another MacOS X / Linux Metaphor.
Daring Fireball pointed out a really neat Finder tip: Once you’ve initiated a drag-n-drop in MacOS X’s Finders, you switch applications in the middle of…
One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about Mac OS X is watching the emergence of tools that tie the GUI applications to the Unix…
Well, I thought it was funny. The 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference…
On June 2nd, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Mars Express space probe. The probe is now on its way towards the red planet,…
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.
