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» synergy is fricking brilliant

» fix for redcloth munging url's with tilde in them.

If you have to deal with tilde’s in url’s, RedCloth messes them up but good.

The fix is simple, yet annoying - go to the redcloth.rb file (normally located in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-3.0.4/lib/ or /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-3.0.4/lib/, and apply the changes in the above changeset (basically, add a :limit clause to each tag).

thumbnail a directory of images

imagemagick required.

for file in *.jpg; do 
    thumb=`echo $file | sed s/.jpg//g`_s.jpg; 
    cp $file $thumb; 
    mogrify -thumbnail 900x100 $thumb; 
done;

tarnished silver of the sky echoes the guarana buzz against the roof of my mouth

Just ordered Generation Kill and One Bullet Away based on the NYT book review here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20906

» Lemur by Jazz Mutant - programmable touch interface

pure awesome.

» gitsvn interface

git svn uses perl; perl needs svn swig bindings to work with svn repos; hence if it ain’t working, make sure you did “sudo make swig-pl && make install-swig-pl” in your svn source directory

looking for the git repo of beast. have to unspool my svn changeset to beast-1.0 and reapply them to beast head.