spotlight: mds, mdworker

The processes 'mds' and 'mdworker' frequently take over my macbook and make it sound like a jet engine about to take off. Clearly this is wasting a lot of battery power...



They are apparently related to spotlight, which I never, ever use. But there are some posts about how disabling spotlight altogether screws up OS X.

Anyone know anything about this?

Brush up on your Java exceptions

A coworker sent me this link
I think he is trying to tell me something...

You too can brush up on your Java exception handling!

Enjoy,
Steve

That's funny

Everything is better with Bacon...

Stupor Bowl?

Is all day coverage of the Super Bowl really required? I, for one, don't really care to know all the details of the lives of professional football players.

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.