I’ve been building a backup workflow in Automator for my daily Final Cut Pro editing projects, and I ran into a little glitch. If I use the Rename Finder Items action in a workflow, then try to put another action after it that references the now-renamed file, I get errors which seem to indicate that…
Technorati
Just signed up for a new Technorati Profile, gonna see what all the hulabaloo is about.
LOLBRENT
Inspired by Brent Simmons’ Twitter post, with apologies to James Duncan Davidson, who snapped the pic.
Science loses its Mr. Wizard
Don Herbert, best known for his role as Mr. Wizard, has died at the age of 89. With his passing, science has lost one of its most compelling and approachable spokesmen. read more | digg story
First Hack. Age 7.99999
My daughter just told me that sometimes in her Animal Crossing game on the DS, the stores are only open at certain times. But if she’s not playing at the right time, she goes and changes the time, so the stores are open and she gets stuff she needs, and then she changes back to…
Almost back to work
Next week I go back to work, and I’ve gotten rid of a ton of stuff that I could just throw away, and made it through most of my backlog of “non-critical” snail mail. Things aren’t perfectly the way I want them yet, but getting closer. Now I’m trying to work out a plan for…
Making it a habit.
I’ve spent at least an hour (usually more) each day this week going through a chapter in the PickAxe 2nd Ed. I’m up to the RegEx section in Chapter 5 right now. I’ve been through a bunch of other tutorials, and this time, it really feels like it’s sinking in and I’m getting more of…