Having, with Panther, gotten a command-line with easy to turn on coloring of directory listings, I went in search of something that would tell me what colors I could use.
I found the resource I needed, of course, in the ls(1) man page.
BTW, my LSCOLORS variable is now cxfxhxhxbxhxhxBxbxdxdx, and looks like:
Hehe. I went looking for information again this year on planting a winter lawn (something we have to do in Arizona since the Bermuda that survuves the summer heat can’t survive the cooler winter temps) and discovered that my weblog post from last year is the #2 result on Google for arizona winter lawn. Not that it helps, but it was funny.
This year I’m more prepared, with a ton of seed from a neighbor, funky matallic flags to scare off birds, and a line on some cheap cow manure to fertilize with.
Cue James Brown: “Heyehh!! Watch me now!”
This is too cool. Evidently, using the Image Capture preferences, you can share digital devices over your local area network with Mac OS 10.3. Nice!!
Apple mentions it too: Mac OS X > Features > Image Capture.
Open the fridge. Take out the tupperware container. Lift one edge of the lid. MMmmm, smell soy sauce, lemon juice, fresh garlic, onion, ginger, sesame oil.
Hooray for stir fry!!
I got a call about another small (very small but nice) web site job today. As much as I want a permanent position, there’s something special about sitting down to lunch with someone who needs a website and has little budget. I feel like a neighbor - a craftsman. That’s nice.
The web designer’s online magazine A List Apart has redesigned and relaunched again, and man, is it nice. Gone are the shocking-orange and reds and yellows, this time around it’s a subtle mix of modern and painterly styles. Very nice.
And of course, there’s several great techical articles on easy image rotation, CSS, and accessibility.
I don’t watch Fox News, as I don’t get all the fancy cable channels for my $13/mo. But I’ve followed from a comfortable distance the bruhaha between Bill “Suitcase Nuke” O’Reilly and Al “Snider-Than-Thou” Franken, as well as the (evidently vivid) on-air blowup between O’Reilly and NPR’s ever-collected Terry Gross.
On PressThink, Jay Rosen analyzes why the current media doesn’t “get” O’Reilly and his volatile style of delivering, and making, the news, and at the same time introduces us to the idea of The Paranoid Style of politics (Richard Hofstadter, 1964).
I don’t really agree with O’Reilly’s style of news, but I can see how it could be downright infuriating to his opponents. It’s hard to get the moral superiority over someone with no shame. Heh.
Wow. Somebody touched a nerve.
You may or not be able to read it on Scripting News (is it 10 o’clock yet?)
Heh - gone. I think that’s a record, even for Dave.
Oh, man, I needed a good guffaw. smile
quoteThis is generally beyond my capabilities, since it involves doing math in my head, but I cheated and used my wireless-Internet-enabled laptop to do the calculation in the Google calculator, thus utilizing over $3000 dollars worth of hardware and software locally and God-only-knows how much hardware remotely (“there are fields, endless fields, where Google servers are no longer born, they are grown”) in order to compensate for my inability to count to 8 without wandering off and logging on to IRC.endquote
Thanks Mark.
Howard Dean’s blog posted this clever spoof of the campy sci-fi flick “Soylent Green”: Soylent Dean!
quoteMy God! His Campaign, it’s made out of PEOPLE!endquote
Via Slashdot: Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions To Mordor!
Oh, I am so ROTFLMAO.
[Correction 10/20/03 2:21 MST] Ok, Dave sent me an email pointing out that that page on Google is © Google, and it points out that the page has been modified by Google from the ODP listing.
Sure enough, Radio is listed on the ODP page. Well hmmm!
Brian Carnell (alerted by Seth) points out that Google may be using PageRank to further filter the ODP listing, but that doesn’t really explain Radio’s absence in Google’s listing, since Radio Userland has a substantial PageRank itself (#5 in a Google search for “Radio”).
My apologies to Dave.
[Update 10/20/03 10:47 MST] If Dave took half a sec to look at the bottom of this page, he’d see that Google’s directory is built directly on top of the Open Directory Project, where he could probably even become an editor of the section he’s grousing about if he tried.
Just because the ODP is not built to Dave’s specs doesn’t mean it’s neither decentralized nor open.
Sen. Leiberman is calling his Democratic Presidential opponents rookies who aren’t ready to be President.
What he’s not saying is that the President is an executive office, for which a legislative career does not necessarily prepare one. So in a sense, Senator Leiberman is as much a rookie as his opponents may be, Gov. Dean and Gen. Clark.
According to Rogers Cadenhead, Anita Rowland is recovering from surgery:
quoteIn the space of two weeks, weblogger Anita Rowland has been diagnosed with diabetes and probable ovarian cancer and undergone surgery, for which her doctors are “cautiously optimistic,” according to a friend.endquote
Anita has been an occasional visitor and commenter on this site, and her blog is always an interesting read. Please keep her in your prayers.
I had not seen yet the Anita herself had posted about her diabetes and possible ovarian cancer diagnosis. Get well soon, Anita!!
Upon waking this morning, the first thing through my head was: The only emotion I feel from fruitcake is Fear.
Mark Pilgrim has some simple to-the-point comments about Rush Limbaugh and his addiction to pain meds.
In a nutshell, whatever else Rush may be to you, right now he’s an addict with an uphill battle to fight.
Russ at MaxDesign continues to provide great CSS resources: this time it’s the Floatutorial, on how to properly use css floats. Huzzah!
Ok, as a confessed color-junkie, this article on ways to distill natural color pallettes from photographs simply kicks ass.
Thanks Andrea!
Bill has some good comments on Microsoft’s acknowledgement that Longhorn is not going to ship until 2006.
Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove ‘Boomtown’ from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS’s ‘Without A Trace’ for the best drama - maybe even best show - on television, IMHO.
Developers gripe about IE standards inaction. What else is new? This article is about CSS, but it could have been about any number of technologies. Bah.
Mike McCracken’s web hosting at disco.ucsd.edu blew up on him, so he’s moved his site. He can’t get at it to redirect the old one, so I told him I’d pass on the info on his new site.
quoteHi, since I can’t redirect disco.ucsd.edu, I have to try to spread the word about my weblog moving the hard way. Could you post that my weblog, formerly at http://disco.ucsd.edu/blog is now at http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/ ?
Thanks,
-mike
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This rocks:
Mimicking Magazine Layouts with CSS. Some very clever and interesting styles here!
On the web we often find ourselves jealous of those glossy print designers and the freedom that interesting typography and absolute positioning on the page affords. No more!
This is your regularly scheduled reminder:
Steve is a motivated, clever, and usually funny web designer and developer with lots of experience with web content management systems. He is currently professionally unattached and can be yours for a reasonable wage.
Thank You for listening.
I don’t use Apple’s iCal much b/c it’s slow. But this nifty little alternative viewer for iCal events makes me want to put everything I can think of in iCal, just to watch them crawl inexorably toward “now”. Wheee!
Jodi and I have been learning some of these lessons over the 16 mos.
