Total nerd meme
Posted by Stephen on April 11, 2008 in Computing
After reading James Bennett’s latest post, I immediately tried the following Unix command: $ history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head 140 ls 120 cd 47 su 26 vim 26 […]
HOWTO: Get rid of that revolting faux-3D Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Posted by Stephen on October 29, 2007 in Stuff
I don’t know what the folks at Apple were smoking when they decided to build that ugly, glassy fake 3D Dock into Leopard. There is no way in hell that I’m going to look at that every day for the next two years. Fortunately, there appears to be a solution. At the […]
Writing a new CMS
Posted by Stephen on February 28, 2007 in Programming
Tonight, I’ve taken the first steps towards ditching WordPress and rolling my own custom CMS. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and I’ve always dismissed it on the grounds that it’s too much work and time, and that there’s already a ton of blogging software out there. But the truth […]
Computer Error Message, Probably
Posted by Stephen on November 21, 2006 in Stuff
This rates as one of the most unhelpful error messages I’ve ever seen: …unless, of course, it didn’t. Who knows?
Cool Python Function
Posted by Stephen on October 3, 2006 in Programming, Stuff
I’m not sure that others would find this interesting, but I’m posting it anyway in case I need this later. While working on a Python script, I needed something that would generate the proper suffixes to make ordinal numbers like 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Since some markup schemes allow you make the suffix […]