I was waiting for a MySQL migration to finish when I said to a friend: “mysql should have growl support to tell me when a lengthy operation is done”. 10 seconds later that became: “Even better, there should be a command like ‘time’ that would growl when whatever command you give it is done”. 3 […]

My holiday project has been deploying store.roobasoft.com. It’s Andy Kim’s open source Ruby on Rails store, Potion Store. I’ve known about Potion Store since Andy first opened it to the public. Since my current PayPal standard solution was working, and sales weren’t great, I didn’t see any need to change things. However, the PayPal standard […]

I have 228 feeds in NetNewsWire. I’m guessing that’s a fairly typical count. It ends up being about 30-60 new news items a day. I noticed I was reading my news in what may be a unique way and thought I’d share: Turn off auto-refresh. I tell NNW when I’m ready for news. Every morning I set […]

At the 1h 24m mark of Macbreak Weekly episode 51 Mr. Merlin Mann gives rooSwitch a pick of the week nod and Leo then talks up rooVid a bit. It’s always great to hear and see others talk about your work in a positive way. Thanks guys

In less than 3 hours I’m hopping on a Southwest flight from Boise to Oakland. I land in Oakland at 8:05 and will be greeted by my father-in-law (thanks!) who will drive me to Moscone to get my badge and queue up for the Keynote. In-laws in the SF area are very helpful when you’re […]

I’ve used TextExpander off and on a few times now. At first I just used it for a signature (snore). A few weeks ago I realized TextExpander could detach what may have been the last dependence I had on browsers: Bookmark Keywords. I love that I can use bookmark keywords to tell Camino (and OmniWeb and […]

I’m going to be showing some slides (and talking over the slides) and doing a demo of RubyCocoa tonight for the Boise ruby brigade. I’ll post the code and slides tomorrow for anyone that might care. Hopefully someone learns something (minimally, I think I’ll get a lot out of it)

Your favorite browser sucks! Mine does too. I rotate through Camino, Safari and OmniWeb. They all have strengths and weaknesses. After about two weeks, my default browser seems to have more weaknesses than strengths. So I switch! “But what about my bookmarks!? and my saved form data!?” you say. With that, I point you at WebnoteHappy[1] and […]

We keep our home pretty cool during the winter. Since I work out of the house all day[1], I’m frequently bundled up with a hat and stuff. The one thing I can’t really cover well has been my hands. I needs to type. It’s what I do. To combat my whining about my cold hands, […]

Update: The traineo guys provided an API and I updated the widget. See: TraineoWeight.wdgt Updated Like most Americans I’d prefer to be less fat. To help me with that goal I’ve been logging my weight on traineo.com. They offer plenty more than just weight tracking, but I haven’t gotten into all that quite yet. Anyway, it […]