If I were going to rip off a website

I'd do something other than use the .org domain name of the .com site i was ripping off. But that is just me....

dotfiles.com
dotfiles.org

Xb: you should sue his ass.

Of course, you never got a mention in the RailsEnvy Podcast....

I could work for Apple

They make up words too....

Look under Video Quality Improvements here.

Note I tried to screen cap a context menu, but I couldn't figure out how.

Recently Read Books

Thirteen - Richard K Morgan

About 150 pages too long.  Not as well-crafted as his Tokeshi Kovacs novels, but still good escapist fun.  The US has split into a few countries around essentially blue states and red states.  It's not clear exactly what happened to Illinois?  The most interesting thing is that it's titled "Black Man" in the UK.

Moneyball - Michael Lewis

I'm on a bit of a Michael Lewis kick with Panic! (easily the best excerpt was this one) and all his recent financial writings.  If you love baseball, actually if you know anything about baseball, you'll dig this book.  It's fun to read it a few years on and recognize many of the names in the book.  Good enough to tempt me into becoming an A's fan.

Mac users don't know unix

In yet another example of how Mac users don't know Unix, I keep reading about how great SuperDuper is and how everyone should use it in addition to TimeMachine. Here it is:

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

It makes bootable backups of your HD. And if you pay $28, you can automatically schedule the backups to happen. And after the first backup, it only copies the changes.

Or, you could put this in your crontab:

0 5 * * * rsync -vaxE --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/BackupDrive/

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that does everything SuperDuper does as long as you setup BackupDrive to be bootable when you format/partition it.

Do you sign your credit card?

So continuing my theme of things that bother me, let me ask this question. But first the drawn out setup...

I went to the post office to mail a package to my in-law. The post office worker in question I've dealt with in the past is just a pain to be a pain.

She puts the package on the scale, I pick a shipping option, and I hand her my American Express card. She hands it back and says she can't take it 'cause I need to sign it.

Now, things to note here are:
1) my picture is on the card
2) she would take the card if I signed it then and there

Which leads me to ask, do I really need to sign this thing? What's the point? What does that prove beyond my picture for identity? Any what would signing it in front of her have really have accomplished?

So confused by what has just transpired, I hand over my Visa card (which is signed), and she runs the transaction.

The gee-wiz of the story? I didn't have to sign for the purchase.

Zoinks!

We Are Fat

It is official.

I went to the Dr. today for my annual meeting with my Allergist. I've been getting shots for seasonal allergies but they recently expanded onto another floor of their building. So new everything: exam tables, chairs, etc.

While I'm waiting for the Dr. to come in, I'm checking out the new digs. Then I see it. A new scale in the corner. So I go weigh myself. While I'm standing there, I'm thinking something doesn't seem right. Then it hits me. This scale goes to 500 lbs. As memory serves, most Dr. scales I've seen in the past have gone to 250, maybe 300 lbs. But 500 lbs? Have people become cargo?

Wow. We are fat.

Another useful Mac App

There's been a flurry of articles about sleep / hibernate with Leopard. Using something like, sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0.


This dynamic automation tool is even cooler.