I just read a great article on Yahoo about how to beat a traffic ticket. The most amazing part to me is that I haven’t been skeptical/cynical enough to really believe what I’ve suspected all along — tickets are viewed more as a revenue source than a measure to maintain good order in our society.
One of the great things about TextMate is it’s extensibility. The developers built in this ability to add more blades to the Swiss Army Text Editor through what they call Bundles. I haven’t looked at how to create custom bundles, but you can easily enable/disable them to suit your needs. Bundles allow TextMate to do things that I used to need individual applications to accomplish, like using Ecto to have.. Read More
I got my 360 back! It took a lot less time than I expected, so I’m pretty excited about that. Not counting the inconvenience of having to sign for it (and adding 3 days to delivery time, since it arrived Friday), it was roughly 12 days. I was pleasantly surprised that inside the box, in addition to the 360, there was a new, white faceplate, a 1-month-free card for XBL.. Read More
Mid-day Thursday, I got an automated phone call from UPS telling me that a package was going to arrive, but that it needed a signature. Having just signed up for a UPS account that morning, I was thought that the call was related to the 2GB of RAM I ordered for this PowerBook. When I got home Friday, I was pleased to find that the memory was left for me,.. Read More
I found a new blogging plugin for TextMate, called BlogMate. It adds a GUI palette to TextMate that allows you to visually choose past posts and edit them, as well as create new posts. It also supports twitter and jaiku posts, which is quite cool. I have to say that I’m really impressed with all of the plugin support and addons that the TextMate developers and community have created. It.. Read More