http://vandahm.org http://vandahm.org/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After reading [James Bennett's latest post](http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/apr/10/meme/), I immediately tried the following Unix command: $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head 140 ls 120 cd ... http://vandahm.org/2008/04/11/total-nerd-meme/ 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 ... http://vandahm.org/2007/10/29/howto-get-rid-of-that-revolting-faux-3d-dock-in-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ Tonight, I've taken the first steps towards ditching [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) 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 ... http://vandahm.org/2007/02/28/writing-a-new-cms/ This rates as one of the most unhelpful error messages I've ever seen:  ...unless, of course, it didn't. Who knows? http://vandahm.org/2006/11/21/computer-error-message-probably/ 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 ... http://vandahm.org/2006/10/03/cool-python-function/ I know this is juvenile, but I can't stop laughing at [this page](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51603) on *The Onion's* site. http://vandahm.org/2006/09/29/hilarity-from-the-onion/ For a project at work, I need to provide a constantly-updated weather forecast of a certain area in Northern Minnesota. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that [The National Weather Service](http://www.nws.noaa.gov/) provides this information for free in XML format. Unfortunately, accessing it is kind of a pain. ... http://vandahm.org/2006/09/25/noaas-weather-feeds/ I really like OS X. In particular, I like its [`open(1)`](http://www.hmug.org/man/1/open.php) command. I seriously wish that Linux and BSD had something like this. Basically, you type `open ` and that file is handled as if you had double-clicked it. This command is so useful and convenient ... http://vandahm.org/2006/09/07/apples-open1-command/ I'm getting fed up with [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) and am considering ditching it in favor of [Typo](http://typo.leetsoft.com/). You can check out my test weblog [here](http://stephen.fomps.net/). **Edit:** In addition to being slow as tar, Typo is a serious memory hog. For the time being, I'm sticking with WordPress. http://vandahm.org/2006/07/27/moving-from-wordpress-to-typo/ I'm pretty bummed out after reading [part of a transcript](http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499) of a Senate Commerce Committee meeting on Net Neutrality. Ted Stevens (from Alaska) apparently received *the entire Internet* in his e-mail: >I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday ... http://vandahm.org/2006/07/02/i-want-to-cry/