If you want to keep an eye on me, please follow my Vox. I always forget to hit the "Cross-post to LiveJournal" thingy when I post, and once you forget it's really hard to get the post onto LJ.

This was driving me crazy; neither the egg nor the setup.py thingy in the source download were working to install Python appscript. So I opened setup.py and changed this:

try:
from setuptools import setup, Extension
except ImportError:
print "Note: couldn't import setuptools so using distutils instead."
from distutils.core import setup, Extension

to ( Read more... )

The newest reason that I love the internet, and Japan, is the hatena haiku (think Twitter in Japanese) meme "konna iPhone wa iya da." Literally, it's something like "I wouldn't like this iPhone", and it consists of people proposing weird hypothetical iPhones:

"It's covered in hair. Whenever someone calls you, it grows."
"iPhone 3G actually means '3 ( Read more... )

Hi,

I have just uploaded a character sheet and a set of power cards for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. They're templates, so you can put them in your ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Templates folder to have them show up in your template chooser. Check them out!


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Hi friends,

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Originally posted on jetfuel.vox.com

A bunch of my posts failed to get cross-posted to LJ because I changed my password at some point. If you care to keep up with my posting, please go read them at my Vox blog:

http://jetfuel.vox.com/

Hi, I just wanted to complain that ( Read more... )

So Heisei Democracy makes heavy use of excerpts, which have distinct text from the post content. WordPress's built-in search doesn't include excerpts, so a lot of relevant posts were getting ignored. We used the fine Search Everything plugin for a while, but it broke in WordPress 2.5 and the guy hasn't made an update yet. After a lot of flailing ( Read more... )

A while back I posted a meme asking for topics to blog about. Here are the promised words:

Vertigo Jon sez:Personal finance and what you do with your savings. (Because i'm trying to figure out what to do with mine at the moment =)
I know you were using outliner for budgeting at one point, how is that going?

The lady does it all now. I am a huge ( Read more... )

I had an item in my OmniFocus VOX project for a while: "Commend My Book". I'm kind of glad that I never got around to it. This Western Digital external USB/FireWire hard drive has a pretty pleasing and Applelike enclosure. But this week, after a year and a half, it abruptly stopped working and I had to tear it apart. I found out that the insides ( Read more... )