So for the longest time I was always bothered by the fact that I couldn’t grep for files of a particular name that were buried several levels deep. For example, if you wanted to do grep -r nifty.java.property *.properties, then unless you had a *.properties file in your current directory, grep would assume that there…
Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
Longest product name EVER!? Seriously people, who wants to type all that? Sheesh! Marketing… pht!
Appropriate name for an attorney’s office
The also have a great blog entry about the sign – it’s a husband-and-wife team, even! 😂🤣
Take back your Win-Space!!!
So ever since I installed Windows 7, it bugged the hell out of me that I couldn’t use my beloved Win-Space hotkey anymore for my equally-beloved Launchy. That is, Until I found this post. Once again, the inimitable AutoHotKey comes charging in on its ugly white horse (the language is a bit of a pain…
SpongeBob SquarePants in Buckaroo Banzai!?
So I was watching Buckaroo Banzai again after first having seen it way back when in college in the ’90s and I’m sitting through the opening credits when the following frame catches my attention (grabbed from 2m37s into the movie as it plays on streaming Netflix right now): Wait! What was that? That looks like……
My desk, post 4am programming orgy
’nuff said… ;]
DVD burner complexities
So I took apart my DVD burner today – no worries, it was already broken… ;] I have to say, I was simply astounded at the complexity of the mechanism. I mean, sure, I knew that it was complex, but the intricacies of the mechanism floored me. I had no idea that such am everyday…
Yeah, the C64 is coming back! ;]
This is kinda cool. It’s a new C64 (this time a 64-bit full Wintel computer) in the same form factor as the old C64. Not sure how practical it’ll be, especially with the keyboard being kind of thick, but it makes me go all nostalgic inside.
CakePHP and XDebug
So this is not going to come as much of a shock to people experienced with CakePHP, but I’m just learning now and liking what I’m seeing. CakePHP 1.3 has a really nice set of conventions to work against and provides a seemingly pretty good scaffold for most typical webapps, so I’m thinking I’ll be…