I noticed the time stamps used by the Google App Engine to show the application logs were all in the Pacific Standard time Timezone. That’s just not useful for everyone not living in the pacific coast. So I wrote an user script you can use to show the time stamps in your browser’s timezone. I [...]
A few months ago I started using a new service provided by carris to check how much time I have to wait for the bus. Problem is, people at Carris never heard about webservices and rest apis, so I had to send an e-mail and wait for an automated reply with information about waiting times [...]
I was looking for a way to parse a RSS feed I built using yahoo pipes and add new torrents to Transmission to download them automatically. I couldn’t find anything useful, so I just wrote a python script to do just that. If you want to use it, you’ll need to configure the first lines [...]
I just found out about a another cool emacs plugin: WindMove This packages allows you to switch windows withouth using C-x o. WindMove is included with emacs, just include the following code in your .emacs: (when (fboundp ‘windmove-default-keybindings) (windmove-default-keybindings)) More info @ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove Tweet
I recently signed up for an account at Jungle disk, http://www.jungledisk.com. I’m paranoid about backups, I use Time Machine to do a full weekly backup and Jungle Disk as an off-site backup solution. It seemed the cheapest option since you only pay for what you upload, and although I have a full 160GB hard drive, [...]
I had my Time Machine backup working and I used to do my backs every week or so. After I ran out of space, I bought a new external to use as a backup volume, so I formatted the new hard drive using Disk Utility and set it to use the GUID partition scheme and [...]