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Renaming files with date standards

Before replacing my  old Motorola RAZR with an iPhone I needed to backup up all of my photos.  Unfortunately Motorola’s naming convention for images is terrible:  DD_MM_YY-hhmm.jpg, if you try sorting that you get all the photos taken on the first of any month grouped together, followed by all those taken the first of the [...]

How to filter email attachments in Lotus Notes

This Lotus Notes script strips email attchements using an Agent instead of Rules. Lets say you want to forward mail from your Lotus Notes account but want to strip attachments, you’ll definitely want to try the following script. It’s perfect for sending your mail to your sexy new iPhone without racking up ridiculous bandwidth charges. [...]

Terminated

    Leopard (OS X 10.5) has its fair share of goodies, including a new and improved terminal client with *gasp* tabbed windows. I thought this feature would be great news, since as I wouldn’t need to install the venerable iTerm in much of the same way that Spaces has supplanted VirtueDesktops. After a week [...]

Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon!

If you work in a 9-5 environment, then the biggest mistake you can possibly make on a Friday afternoon is to start major changes in your code. Stop! Step away from the keyboard! This one goes right up there with never sending an email late at night (especially when you’re tired or cranky) or discussing [...]

Three things not to like about Safari for Windows

You can’t resize the Window except when you use the lower right corner. That’s a terrible design issue, one that has annoyed me a bit in OSX but annoys me even more in Windows. I guess this is a strong sign that Window resizing won’t be changing in Leopard. The RSS icon doesn’t respect what [...]

Batch Cooking

While walking to the market today my friend Cyril proposed we take turns cooking food in large batches. It would only take a few like minded people for us to benefit from cooking on a large scale, making meals that most bachelors and couples would find too large or expensive to prepare, such as lasagna [...]

Douglas Copland explains the state of my blog

“For about four months back in the 90s I kept what was once called a diary, and I enjoyed doing it but what happened was – and I think this is a very common response – is when you start living your life inside your diary you become quite mercenary, and it’s all about ‘will [...]

The raquette racket

I had the great opportunity to go snowshoeing in Val-David this weekend with a couple of friends. It was a lot of fun but it was also the first time that my army issue “old school” snowshoes let me down.  The trail was packed hard and my snowshoes had no grip on the steep mountain [...]

Getting things done.

Work has monopolized the majority of my free time since returning from the honeymoon. In fact we’re only starting to print wedding photos and write thank you cards now. I have done a few small projects though. I’ve been Windows free at home for two months now, and don’t expect to ever go back, and [...]

A fascination with numbers

Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m not always good with numbers, and yet I have always been fascinated by them. In grade four I didn’t know how to do long division, and so copied from a friend sitting next to me as I slowly deciphered the process on my own. Yet paradoxicaly I was a member [...]