I am experimenting with a very nice blog system, WordPress. I am using it to manage a project of my wife’s, ShowBizRadio.net. Right now I’m learning all about how the template system works. Somewhere it seems like I have dropped a [/div] tag, so subpages are badly broken.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Do you have the Right to Read?
Is your computer really your computer? Can you do what you want with it? Can your PC that came with MS Windows be changed to run Linux? That book on your shelf, can you give it to a friend? Can you look inside your car’s engine and fix a problem? Can you use non-Honda parts […]
WebDevAdditions
This is the coolest piece of software. WebDevAdditions for Safari. It allows you to more easily see how your html code is rendering. Table cells, paragraphs, divisions, each can have a box outlining that area of the page. Very cool.
Archiving Web Locations (webloc) to the web, now with FavIcons
I’ve updated my script to grab the site’s Favicon. I’m now cleaning up the script, and will post it shortly. (Edited (2012-08-28): I removed this from function from my site, I never really got it to work reliably and have moved on to other systems. It could be useful though to use it as a […]
Archiving Web Locations (webloc) to the web
I’ve written a bash script that works on Tiger which creates a web page of the .webloc files I have saved to my computer. I’ll get the script posted soon, I’m documenting it now. The page it uploads is at http://www.planetmike.com/urls/.
I am a statistic.
MIT is studying blogging. So by blogging about it, I am skewing their results. Cool. (Insert devious grin and cackling laughter here.)
I don’t like Spotlight
I’m probably the only person in the world who feels this way, but I don’t like Spotlight, Tiger’s new search feature. The files I store on my Powerbook are fairly well organized in a hierarchy of folders. Three main categories (personal, CDT, and IEF). Inside of each are sub-categories (web site name, support, misc., movies, […]
Automator Rename Files Sequentially works great!
I had a bunch of files I needed to rename sequentially. They were chapters from a book I’m HTMLing, so I wanted the names to be part1-chapter1.shtml, part1-chapter2.shtml, etc… up to part1-chapter13.shtml. By duplicating the file in the finder I got 13 files, but they all had an extra “copy” in the filename. Automator let […]
MySQL Administrator for OS X?
Does anyone know where MySQL Administrator for OS went to? It used to be at the MySQL Administrator Downloads page, but now it’s gone.
Tiger Automator Bug
I just submitted this bug report to Apple: “I wrote an automator script that moves all .webloc files on my desktop into a folder on my desktop. It works fine within automator, but as a folder action, I can see it run when I drop a file on the desktop, but it doesn’t do anything. […]