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It’s been a while since I’ve said anything about VoodooPad here, but it deserves another round of kudos – I continue to absolutely live in it, and it gets much more useful the longer I use it.

How I use VoodooPad

I keep a running set of time-stamped pages under “ResearchLog” and “MeetingNotes”, and all kinds of [...]

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I meant to post this just after the show, but I didn’t.

I saw Matt Pond PA play on March 7th at the Epicentre in Mira Mesa.

The band sounded great, fitting a sometimes symphonic sound from a few band members into a smallish low-ceilinged venue (okay, teen center). I was impressed that their sometimes melancholy songs [...]

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Really, it is a little encouraging that after so many years of staring at browsers, I can still thoroughly entertain myself on a Sunday afternoon by reading the homepages of total strangers.

However, if it’s still winter, a north-eastern transplant to Southern California does have to be careful when reading accounts of wool coats, comforting snowfall [...]

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0.2 Review: My weblog editor of choice.

Mar 16, 2006

Michael McCracken San Diego, CA 92109

product MarsEdit 1.1.2 MarsEdit was recently updated to version 1.1.2, with [...]

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Coverity, the company formed by the people behind the Stanford MC Checker, has started posting regular reports from their analysis tools on prominent open-source projects at scan.coverity.com.

I found out about this through an email from the Coverity CTO on the GCC mailing list, and it seems to have been received with some moderate enthusiasm. I [...]

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The Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List, a great resource for tips and info about what professors actually do (as opposed to what you learn in grad school), is now out in a weblog form, in case you’d rather read in an aggregator than a mail client: Tomorrow’s Professor Blog

I’d recommend poking through the back issues – [...]

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I don’t remember, but I must have just shot off the couch. You see, when I caught the power cord of my Powerbook in between my toes, there was enough velocity to pull the laptop halfway across the table. It punted my full coffee mug into the hallway, contents flying everywhere.

The laptop caught some coffee, [...]

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Herb Sutter, software architect at Microsoft, chair of the ISO C/C++ committee, and blogger, gave a talk this Monday about the impending concurrency revolution and his project, Concur, an extension to C style languages to support usable concurrent programming. I enjoyed his talk in spite of the job-fair atmosphere (it was also a Microsoft recruiting [...]

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A quick thought: why not wrap NSUndoManager to support adding scriptable hooks to almost any user action? Surely someone can think of a good scheme to let an application programmer support really thorough scriptability without tons of extra work…

I thought of this because I’d like a way to mark a To-do item for an email [...]

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After reading Merlin Mann’s suggestion to live in iCal, I thought that even though I don’t use kGTD, it might be a good idea to try to limit the number of places where things I have to do exist. Following on the idea of moving lines of text from VoodooPad to iCal todos, I just [...]

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