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I'm trying to figure out how to direct output from a shell script to another file - from within the script. I've tried

[cmd] > filePath

but it doesn't seem to work. Can any kind reader with unix shell scripting experience help out?

Coool. Adam Gaffin, columnist and blogger at Network World Fusion picks up my link to the Applescript-saves-the-iMac story. Links rule.

Got to have dinner last night with old-school Frontier guru, Peer-to-Peer speaker, and all-around hoopy frood Wes Felter. We were headed to find some interesting night spot on Mill Avenue, near ASU, but we were both starving and settled for Chili's.

A fun time was had, however, over an awesome blossom, quesadillas, and a couple fine ales.

One of the things Wes linked to in our conversation last night (how's that for mixing metaphors) was BitKeeper, a distributed source code management tool. I'm looking over the site now; I'd like personal comments from people with experience working with it, too.

Greg Titus, writing for Motley Fool:

"AppleScript is a way cool technology. Speaking as a NeXT bigot, I'd have to say that AppleScript is by far the coolest software technology that NeXT acquired when they sneakily executed their buyout of Apple for negative $400 million. :-)"

Some useful sample code here.

Well, after killing bugs for a few weeks, I've got to get back on getting our build process in place. Not the whole thing yet, but I've got to suck the code out of CVS, build a key framework, then do the same for the app.

Thank goodness for BBEdit, which makes editing shell scripts a highly pleasurable process. (Or as pleasurable as shell script can be).

Matt Goyer, who had a traumatic personal experience with my employer, discovers that I'm in the aforementioned evil corporation's employ. As Matt says: Interesting.

Thanks to some unfortunate dental work a while back, I'm getting MSN and AOL search hits for "vicodin". Mmmm. Vicodin.

Dave points to my coffee cup radioFeedIcon. It was really easy to do with Conversant's Resources. I just put \radioFeedIcon\ in my template or message.

Conversant offers a LOT of options when it comes to outputting your content. Any page can have it's MIME type set, and templates (cf 1, 2) can be anything, including HTML, XML, I even tried RTF once. (No go on that one. ;-))

In the case of my RSS feed, the feed is a WeblogViewPage. The WeblogViewPage lets me create any number of ways to deliver my weblog content, in the past I've seen RSS, Avantgo, and OPML versions of Conversant weblogs using this technique.

Oh, and Dave, it's Steve, please. ;-)

Around 12:30 am last night I had to call Jodi in to the office. Looking pleadingly into her eyes, I said, "Honey, I need an intervention. Get me away from the computer!"

We got our Cox connection back last night, and it spawned a bandwidth-induced site-tweaking and blogging frenzy.

I always hate myself the next morning...

I always wondered what the rainbow-colored boxes were on sites i visited... now I know. And I have one too, now. SiteMeter gives good stats, without having to own a log analyzer yourself. Guess I can leave Macrobyte alone now and let them finish the [hassle hassle hassle].

You look through your referers and see an odd search request, but know exactly which post it hit.

Instructions: Build, Run, Insert debug calls, Repeat.

To Read: Name Spaces As Tools for Integrating the Operating System Rather Than As Ends in Themselves

Pre-read thought: The Mac OS X file system needs to implement KVC in its APIs. It may already... I don't know.

The process Joel describes here is one that I really need to go through on some of my code. Maybe when I get these last few bugs worked out.. Riiiiggggght.

I finally got the referer thing from here working over here. I love referer logs... ;-)

Hmm. thanks to my referers, I have found that I have the #3 and #4 hits for RSS Sources on Google. Cooool. I guess I should update that soon.

Been following Arboretum, a Cocoa-based outliner. Not much to seee right now, but DeusX and I have been trading edits on the idea whiteboard.

I finally got my Cox.Net connection back up tonight!! I am SOOOOOO happy! Muahahahahaha.... <evil genius hand-wringing/>