Category Archives: technology

quicksilver, curl, applescript, proxy-config, twitter

August 5, 2008 – 7:11 pm

This explains how to use Quicksilver to send posts to Twitter from within a firewall. I made this my little lunch project today. First, let’s start with the basics. If you set up your work proxy server in your network config, there is not really any way to easily retrieve those settings. Let’s say you [...]

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Breakaway Saves My Ears

July 30, 2008 – 11:15 am

I wrote a post a while back about the pesky habit of my MacBook Pro trying to make me go deaf. I plug my laptop into a stereo via the headphone jack at home and listen to music. In order to get the sound levels right at home, I increase the volume to full volume [...]

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resurfacing_2008_r0.2*

July 13, 2008 – 4:05 am

The second stage of resurfacing the site is “finished.” The theme is still based on Sandbox, but I have modified some of the files so far to add some styling content that wasn’t possible with the theme as it was. I had considered adding a second theme layer on top of Sandbox and then utilize [...]

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