March 2010
8 posts
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Literally, A Web Log →
An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”
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zsh arguments-fu
When using Subversion from the command-line I commonly do:
svn copy ^/myproject/branches/FB-branch1 ^/myproject/branches/FB-branch2
svn switch ^/myproject/branches/FB-branch2
This is a lot of typing. One way of working around this a wrapper around svn to automate these patterns, but another is using shell power. I use zsh, but bash and others can do the same with slightly different...
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Librarian: There's a problem with this account update. It seems you have changed your default library account password.
Me: yes.
Librarian: ...
Me: I like chaning my passwords every now and then.
Librarian: It's not recommended to change your password. No we cannot update your account.
Me: ...
Librarian: I'll create this extra account for you, and restore its default password. Your password should be the first four digits of your birthday. But don't change it again. It's makes life difficult for all of us.
Me: Ehm… thanks?
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Designing for the Web →
Wonderful book, now available online for free.
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McDonald's employee: here's your burger. You might want to check if it's still good.
Me: excuse me?
McDonald's employee: you know, try it. I'm not sure if it's still good.
Me: I think I prefer a new one, regardless.
McDonald's employee: why? It might still be okay!
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Using Postbox
I’ve decided to give Postbox a try as my default e-mail client. I love Mail.app’s simplicity, but it has some quirks and I feel I could do better.
Here’s what I like so far:
A sleek interface for tagging (called topics)
Quick browsing of attachments in a folder or from a contact
Archive message immediately with ‘a’
Gmail-style conversation view
Pretty good and quick...
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Test apache configuration syntax
Recently my Mac OS X stock install of Apache failed to launch properly. The regular system preferences interface stopped and started Web Sharing without complaining, but I could not find httpd actually running using ps -ax | grep httpd in the terminal.
I was at a loss to explain why, until I found this little gem that you can use to syntax-test your configuration files with: apachectl -t will...