Blogs
Trying out the new Safari 4 beta today. Working very nicely so far - fast, light on cpu, etc. Still, I don't know if I can go on for too long without vimperator! Anyway, the point of this post was to recommend ClickToFlash. It does a nice job of blocking flash plugins, but also lets you whitelist by URL, which is nice for those few sites that you do want to see flash stuff on...
1. if you give chown a user with a trailing colon, it will automatically use that user's default group. ex:
- root@rollett:~/blog# touch t
- root@rollett:~/blog# ls -l t
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 23 22:21 t
- root@rollett:~/blog# chown www-data: t
- root@rollett:~/blog# ls -l t
- -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Feb 23 22:21 t
@rant: I don't want to learn emacs keystrokes just to read info that should have been in the man page! durn kids these days...
that's all for today!
Decided I was tired of having to manually go and look at my posts after I was done writing them... This latest version will open the post under your cursor in your default browser when you type 'o'. whoo! Tested and working on mac os x, could be dodgier on linux/windoze - leave a comment if you have trouble...
No, the title isn't some cool metaphor - this post really is about changing the oil. Anyway, the quick change places would have you change your oil every 3,000 miles. HOWEVER, they want to sell you oil, so they might be erring on the side of caution, so to speak. My car's manufacturer recommends changing the oil every 10,000 miles. HOWEVER, they want to sell me a new car. So, after many years of wondering about this conundrum, I've decided that the sweet spot between unnecessary oil changes and waiting too long must lie between those two extremes. Hey, it sounds good, right?
My blog is back from the dead! Well, maybe for the day, anyway... (had the day off from work because of an ice storm) I decided to jazz it up a little, and installed the excellent nitobe theme. It's pretty much bone stock, except for the header images, which were all taken by me or my wife. If you're curious where any of them were taken, just post a comment and I'll be happy to tell ya...
Thanks to a suggestion on an earlier post, I decided to extend the infamous VIM blogging client to all content types. It now comes with the capability to edit pages and stories by default, and it's easily extendible to other content types. (though you're restricted to editing the title and body, it won't do custom fields!) I suppose this would make the version number something like 0.03-rc2? Here's the (by now) de rigeur screenshot:
