I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the Leopard previews earlier in the year, because OS X just blew my mind.
I was editing an e-mail message, and decided to idly click on Time Machine to see what it was doing. Instead of the Finder going into Time Machine mode, my e-mail went into time machine [...]
The temperature has suddenly dropped over the last couple of days. Yesterday evening it was 23 celsius as we sat on the restaurant patio.
A woman walked by, wearing a scarf.
One of the things I found confusing about bash was its startup scripts: there were so many of them. Eventually I snapped and sat down with a terminal and the man pages, and worked out how it actually behaves. Here’s a summary.
Interactive
login
Interactive
non-login
Non-interactive
Remote shell
/etc/profile
A
/etc/bash.bashrc
A†
~/.bashrc
B
A
~/.bash_profile
B2
~/.bash_login
B3
~/.profile
B4
~/.bash_logout
C
BASH_ENV
A
On startup, bash executes any script labeled A in the table above, followed [...]
On September 20th, an unnamed woman was raped at gunpoint by four men.
A judge in Philadelphia has ruled that since the woman was a prostitute, it wasn’t gang rape—just “theft of services”.
Are you a concerned parent wondering where you can buy toys that aren’t made in China, and are guaranteed not to be tainted with lead?
Buy LEGO. It’s all still made in a factory in Denmark, not China. It will expand your child’s mind, not damage it.
If your child is too young for regular LEGO, there’s [...]
Independent Institute article:
Newly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “…the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and [...]
I didn’t drive until 2004. I relied on public transit to get everywhere. This meant that I thought nothing of walking for half an hour to get where I wanted to be, and then walking back afterwards. Especially if the bus didn’t turn up.
In Massachusetts, I would start to gain weight as winter set in; [...]
It’s National Squirrel Awareness Week!