Disable iCal 5's Page Flip Animation
iCal is so much faster now.
I working from home today to see Nolan through the end of his sickness. Today is the first time I have worked at my desk so it also the first time I cannot hear Nolan in his room. We have never used baby monitors because there was no need in the loft and we hear him well from our bed. (Perhaps too well.)
I downloaded a baby monitor app for my old phone and placed it in his room. There are two distinct styles of baby monitor apps, those that call you noise is detected and those that act like a traditional monitor and allow you to hear what is in the room. I went with the later because I’m not interested in tweaking the sensitivity today. I think it will be a great option over Christmas when he is sleeping in the bowels of our parent’s homes.
My coworkers and I are working on an old application that will soon die. The giggles I get from the the following snippets may make up for the hate I have for doing this work.
$sp = ‘ ’;
$sp2 = “$sp$sp”;
$sp3 = “$sp2$sp”;
$sp4 = “$sp3$sp “;
These global library variables are used on every page in the HTML that is created in the scripts and printed.
Big Decisions
Our wireless network SSID in Carbondale was “Trailer” and “Loft” so far in Nashville. What should it be now? “House” is lame. “Cottage”? “Lil’ Fortress of Solitude”?
I left work yesterday without fixing a simple accessor method I had written. Usually I like to wrap up my work better than that but Beth called to request my ETA, it was looking dark outside, and I knew I had a bunch of shrimp to devein.
This morning at 4:50 I sat in our rocking chair feeding Nolan and thinking about my upcoming day. I remembered where I left my work and worked through the problem. Five minutes later I determined my problem and will fix it shortly.
I’m amused in my problem solving skillz while being very tired.
Good News
So the kinks of my promotion have finally been worked out. In a few weeks, I will be piloting a Kindergarten program at my school. […] So I will be teaching Kindergarten to 10 students. I will have my own classroom and will no longer have a co teacher. […] I’m really excited and anxious for the year to start.
- I’m very happy for Beth.
- This qualifiers her for a Apple teacher discounts. ;-)
Nashville by Kyle Jones via Instagram
500th skyline!
Today I shared my 500th Nashville skyline. 500!
I would like to take this moment to thank Tumblr’s queue, Flickr, and the Perl script I wrote to parse .webloc files for me.
Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right - UX Movement
I pushed for this in the past and was met with opposition. I wish I would have created such a detailed list of reasons such as this.
Who gives a shit if an engineer can write a binary search? Anyone who still writes code to sort a batch of integers is either (1) a student, (2) not merely sorting integers, or (3) a total loser. How do you sort a list? You invoke sort. Next?
Off-Site Backups — Shawn Blanc
I’ve read a lot of blog posts about backing up data and this one stands out. Maybe because I finally feel confident about my own data and Shawn gave props to Arq, the app I use.
Bacon Ipsum | A Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator
I will be using this as much as possible.
Tail ham hock beef ribs sausage, chuck tenderloin rump strip steak pork belly beef venison shank. Tri-tip tongue pork loin, sirloin fatback spare ribs chicken ribeye tail pork chop rump strip steak shank shankle. Ball tip ribeye t-bone, tenderloin rump short loin beef ribs corned beef drumstick flank. Pork fatback beef ribs swine pig. Pancetta sausage bacon, strip steak ground round ham hock jowl chicken pork chop pork belly hamburger. Pancetta pork loin pork ham beef. Drumstick tenderloin t-bone, swine strip steak rump chuck pastrami ribeye pork chop tail fatback corned beef meatball cow.
Geeks can waste a lot of time. Today my coworkers, boss, and I discussed what structure is being reflected in the side of a VUMC building. We eventually approximated angles of reflection on a Google Maps screenshot.
We all agreed that we see the reflection of the Power House’s smokestack.
I recently updated my Nashville Skyline (First blogged about last October) to avoid duplicate Flickr photos. I don’t believe I have posted any yet but with over 400 photos it is going to be harder to avoid it. The change to the process is pretty simple. I wrote another script to pull down all the photo ids of posted photos into a text file and now my posting script checks its list of files against the list. I could be fun to write a bookmarklet or Safari plug-in instead of handling .webloc files.
