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Once again, I'm driving Kreg up the wall... oh, and someone remind me to beat him over the head for that horrible pun.

Best. Strongbad. Email. Ever. Guitar.

The Register: Ctrl-Alt-Del inventor makes final reboot

I've uploaded the lastest PodCastHelper. PodCastHelper is now a Mac OS X AppleScript application, so it should be much more efficient. I've wrapped up some of the external calls so they won't throw a dialog up if they error out. Also, PCH now recognizes timecodes that start with '#', so Christiaan Stoudt's HomeNetworkHelp.info podcasts work "out of the box".

At work, we recently "upgraded" from using CVS for all our source control to using Subversion. Subversion is what all the cool kids are using, but we chose it for several reasons, not the least of which being intelligent tag and branch management. With CVS, managing our release branches was becoming more and more hairy, while creating a new branch with Subversion is almost trivial. Other bennies:

Ok, I gave up on getting Kevin on the line for some audio. Maybe at a later time I can add it back in.

PodCast Helper is a stay-open AppleScript that looks at the current track in iTunes; if the genre is "podcast", it grabs the comment from the track, and parses it for timecodes and notes of the form:

Geek alert: Does anyone know if there's a way to ask iTunes for the elapsed time of the currently playing track? I don't see anything in the AppleScript dictionary, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place...

This was a project weekend. There were a nummber of projects I'd been slacking on, and finally got to working on Saturday and Sunday.

Josh Aas: Camino, Firefox on Mac OS X, and My MF Employment: >"I'll also be working on making pages load faster, and Mac OS X rendering in general. This most likely includes making the gecko rendering engine use the Quartz API intead of Quickdraw. This will bring a lot of benefits, including making use of your graphics card to do a lot of the work that your CPU is doing right now because we use Quickdraw."

To Read - A List Apart: What's The Problem and Uses Cases Part II: Taming Scope.

in-theaters-fall-2005

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

I took our Mac Plus into work today and set it up on my desk. It doesn't do anything useful, but it looks really cool. :-) I still need a SCSI cable before it will boot (off the 10 mb hard drive), since I don't have a System floppy.

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

[8:40:41 PM] Kreg Steppe: Yea...that is it... BTW I tried one of those Bud Selects, have you had one?
[8:41:11 PM] Steve Ivy: huh uh. no budweiser will pass my lips
[8:41:31 PM] Steve Ivy: i only drink hoity toity beer

kevindevin.com In the Trenches - Tech Chat - 02-26-2005: >"My apologies for the sound quality it seems the more updates that Skype provides, the more functionality it breaks. It took us nearly an entire hour to get this Tech Chat going but we prevailed in the end!"

TulipGirl: Desk Exercises

This sour-looking fellow is Ernst D. Bunker, a character I created for a short-lived series of rumor-site-parody columns at StepWise. Wanted to keep him around and this is the only copy of him I have. For the curious, he was sketched and shaded on paper with pencil, then scanned and the color layed in behind in Photoshop with a semi-transparent color wash.

It's been a while since I've jumped on a bandwagon late, but I thought this t-shirt was really funny, so I ordered one this past week. For background, see this Boing Boing post, and this one too.