BrT

Soon it will be time to begin working on dinner for tonight, so while there is still time: Happy New Year to everyone! All the best for 2009, may it be a good year for you.

[Read more →]

I just finished the ugprade to Wordpress 2.7. I was more careful than usual given the big update (normally I just overwrite the files, this time I actually followed the instructions), but everything apparently went fine. I really like the new admin screen, it’s much cleaner and clearer. Please let me know if you find [...]

[Read more →]

For some time I have been using this technique (with the variation mentioned in my comment: use the application also as the stack overlay icon) to clean my Downloads stack in the OSX dock. The only problem with using an Automator app is that it is quite slow, so I have replaced it with a [...]

[Read more →]

I spent a few minutes today trying to figure out why, when setting a value to zero in an NSTableView, the number formatter I had associated with that column (to add a percentage sign to each number) was not being applied. Eventually, I realized that zero is a special case for NSNumberFormatter, and by default [...]

[Read more →]

A new release of my comic-grabbing script Grabcartoons is out! It includes many updates and fixes, a new ability to define site-wide “templates” to easily fetch any comic from a hosting site (templates are included for comics.com and gocomics.com), a new option to choose and fetch a random set of comics, and more.
As usual, tip [...]

[Read more →]

I get most of my desktop background pictures from either vladstudio or the NASA Image of the Day site, both excellent sources of fantastic images. To make it easier to fetch a particular image, I have created two Automator workflows, which you can download here:
Get image from Vladstudio.zip
Get image from NASA image of the day.zip
To [...]

[Read more →]