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my organizational side run amok
I installed Delicious Library earlier and have spent all afternoon and evening scanning in barcodes from my CD’s, DVD’s, books, and games. Wow, that sounds like the dorkiest thing ever: while everyone else in this country is watching the Superbowl, I’m sitting alone in my apartment, waving barcodes at my computer. I [...]
chmodding and Ruby
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
ArtRage
I downloaded the free starter version of ArtRage 2 the other day and I’m just now getting around to playing with it. I have no talent with drawing people or objects, but I was able to whip this up in a few minutes, and Todd was able to discern that it’s a human face, [...]
new iPod and boot issues
I’m finally upgrading my iPod Shuffle to something with a screen! Yesterday, due to the free shipping and free engraving offered, I ordered from Apple online a Product Red iPod Nano. I’m now incredibly excited about it getting here, even though it’ll surely take a week or more for it to get shipped [...]
my slugification
I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping, eating, and playing different video games so far during my winter break, and it’s fabulous. I feel like such a slug! I get up a little before noon, eat a bit while playing the Sims, go visit my dad out at my brother’s house construction site, come [...]
vampire and zombie Sims
I bought The Sims 2 Nightlife Friday night and I’ve been playing it like crazy since then. I was very excited about the possibility of having vampire Sims, which was introduced in Nightlife, so I set about finding and then wooing one of the in-game vampires with one of my Sims. I was [...]
using Ruby to rename files and edit their content
Recently at work, the web admin for the computer science department came into our lab and told us that my employer's site was broken. The admin had need to make all .php files not act as PHP scripts, and instead, all files with the extension .sphp would now run as PHP scripts. Since [...]
finding invalid foreign keys in Rails
Sometimes it would be useful to tell users of your Ruby on Rails application if there is a problem in the database, such as some foreign keys are invalid. As an example, let's assume you have two models, Book and Author, such that each Book has an author_id which connects with Author via its [...]
DefaultKeyBinding.dict
To make it more convenient for me to take clean notes, as opposed to notes filled with "x^2" and "y_j", I looked into changing the key bindings in OS X.
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