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Another installment of Sara Beats Her Head Against Tech:

When trying to convert images from RGB to CMYK with ImageMagick, the regular command to convert:

convert original.jpg -colorspace CMYK new.jpg

worked - but the converted image’s colors looked absolutely terrible. So I ( Read more... )

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Since the happymapper google group has been closed to posting, thought I’d toss this up here.

I posted this question to the group:

--------------------------------------------------- I have a node that looks like this:

MyValue
MySecondValue I need both the value of the attribute " ( Read more... )

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Ok, technically I’m not schilling because I’m not even pretending I’m not involved.

Luke and I are paying for the bulk of our wedding costs… and we’re coming up a bit short. If you’re interested in buying any of Luke’s music, now would be the helpful time to do it. “WHAT A RIPOFF! ( Read more... )

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“some long test string or other”.scan(/.{15}/)

Snagged from http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5621 and posted here so I can find it later.

Poll What do you prefer from these choices?

 I admit it, I have a weakness for the sparkly. It's that girl chromosome poking its head out. This is what caught my eye today, from a link out of one of my wedding RSS feeds:



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While walking through Target today, I spotted the slightly-classier-than-white-plastic "plastic flatware" from Diamond. I'd kind of like to use this at my wedding, and... what's that? "Try Me Free?"

SWEET.

Just one problem. 1 rebate per household. That's where you come in.

Yes dear friends, I said you! Here's my evil plan to stick it to Jarden Home ( Read more... )

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If you ever run into this pain in the butt error, hopefully this’ll save you some time:

Installing a gem without the version works fine; installing a gem using “-v 2.x.x” or whatever version you like ends in:
spec_fetcher.rb:254: warning: getc is obsolete; use STDIN.getc instead

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Remember my last post about how I was starting an herb garden, about two months ago, and I wasn’t expecting anything to actually grow?


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Seedling starter tray: $4
Seedling soil: $4
Seeds: $6


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