January 2008
23 posts
“<!DOCTYPE html>”
– http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-doctype/
Spoon - Fitted Shirt
“Sure, it’s fun to be able to check email, have the TV on in the background, and...”
– how to write without distractions
“The president of the United States has identified closely with a man he sees as...”
– http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002237
A Resolution You Can Keep: Fair Trade in 2008 →
“If every American household replaced just one incandescent bulb with a compact...”
– Power Switch - The New Energy Law Will Change Light Bulbs, Appliances and How We Save Electricity in the Home
Frisbeetarianism, n.
The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
“[T]he critique against biofuels is mounting. Many say they are even more harmful...”
– ‘A TOTAL DISASTER’
“Work becomes disruptively more enjoyable if you can shed the clients who buy...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann: Work becomes disruptively m…
DrawIt 3.3 with Perspective tools: Sneak Preview... →
I just got VectorDesigner and Pixelmator from MacHeist II, so I’m sick to be looking at this.
Clutter Fsck
@fitzage and I are going to quit shopping organizational tools and stick with one solution until at least March 1, 2008.
His weapon of choice? BackPack from 37Signals.
Mine? Things from Cultured Code.
More updates as the experiment progresses.
e Text Editor v1.0.8 released →
“I was bothered by the extensive velcro on my Crumpler shoulder bag. I got some...”
– Andy Radin in a photo.net comment
“By far and away our favourite sampling was one that featured an even ramp up to...”
– Coffee Geek iRoast 2 review
“If your email includes a five-line confidentiality footer, I mentally deduct...”
– Jeff Atwood on Twitter
irssi keyboard commands under OSX terminal
To switch between irssi windows (normally alt+1 etc.) - use;
Press Esc, let go - then press number, 1, 2 whatever
To pageup/pagedown - use this keyboard sequence (must be in this order)
Press (and hold) Shift-key, now Press and hold fn-key, now with these keys pressed (in that order) - press the pageup (arrow up) or pagedown (arrow down) keys to pageup/down
If your backspace key is acting as...
SVN for webdesign
Not sure if this setup would help you, but this is how I run my version control.
First, 1 note about having the repositories hosted elsewhere… What happens if you are working without an internet connection? I’ve run into that problem a few times, and is one of the reasons I’m looking more at Git or Mercucial, with the ability to do offline commits.
That being said, I am a...
ssh aliases make me happy
Edit ~/.ssh/config (on your local machine). For example:
Host h
HostName host.remote.com
User gtcaz
This defines a new host (named h) which expands to host.remote.com and with gtcaz as the default user. What this allows is:
scp some_image.png h:www/images
Or
ssh h ls www/images
The first example copies some_image.png from a local folder to the www/images folder on the server. The...
Making Rounded Corners in Photoshop
Open the pic you want to have rounded corners on.
Select the tool for a rectangle with rounded corners.
Make the new layer and draw the rectangle with rounded corners on it.
Click the path tab on the new layer with the rectangle.
Click the small arrow icon and choose “make selection”.
Select the picture layer.
Choose Inverse from the Select menu. Choose Clear from the Edit menu.
(Or, in...
