affordance - word for the day

The word for the day is affordance.

Brain Cells Fused with a Computer Chip

The idea of getting that wetware interface to your computer gets closer all the time, check out this posting about brain cells fused with a computer chip.

DIY Bottle Cap Tripod

Dave at lifekludger gave me an interesting link to the DIY Bottle Cap Tripod. Pretty handy for cycling, or when travelling. Need a tripod, just buy a bottle of water and attach this …

sxore has SXIP 2.0

We’ve been working hard integrating the SXIP 2.0 protocol into sxore and you can now check out the results.

man page for pbcopy

I only heard a rumour of this before. This is a great thing. A command line tool for getting things into your mac’s clipboard : The Centurion » Manual Page For pbcopy(1).

sxore is in alpha

Yeah sxore is getting into the light. I am an alpha friendly. Hmmm.

put your mac to sleep

I am still trying to make my mac like a windows box, but it’s getting better all the time. Now I canput my mac to sleep.

This copy in a block quote. What happens now?

flock is out

i used flock to make this post.

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developing on mac os

I haven’t really used a mac since 1997. One of the best things about it of course is the bsd-like operating system beneath the hood.
Here is what I have learned thus far.

First things to install:

Choose what you’re going to use for ports: Fink or Darwin Ports.
Fink is a debian based package manager with a handy gui. After you install you will want to upgrade your Fink Commander. Darwin Ports is a bsd based command line tool.