Beyond Success - Chapter 2
JOHN WOODEN'S SEVEN-POINT CREED
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make friendship a fine art.
3. Make each day your masterpiece.
4. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
5. Help others.
6. Drink deeply from good books.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
– An excerpt from, “Beyond Success” by Brian D. Biro.
Key Xing Still Rocks!!
Yes, I know I already wrote about this, but I had to reiterate it. I put in a feature request to John Scalo of LumaCode about 3 weeks ago. He immediately wrote back with some questions on how I would use it to clarify my request. Well, as luck would have it, I just got the latest beta announcement from John and TaDaaaa! My feature is in there. I paid $7 for the product that already rocked, and now I'm going to buy a few more copies just so I can send him some money. This little $7 program is worth every bit of $30 or $40 and with each release, he raises the value by an exponential factor.
If you do any type of repetitive tasks, repetitive typing, or just plain wish you could use that row of function keys on your keyboard, do yourself, and John, a favor; Go Buy Key Xing. — andy
Beyond Success - Chapter 1
“No one knows when each team member will have the greatest impact: the greatest element in stardom is the rest of the team.”
– An excerpt from, “Beyond Success” by Brian D. Biro.
An Irish Wish
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MAY THERE ALWAYS BE WORK FOR YOUR HANDS TO DO; MAY YOUR PURSE ALWAYS HOLD A COIN OR TWO; MAY THE SUN ALWAYS SHINE ON YOUR WINDOWPANE; MAY A RAINBOW BE CERTAIN TO FOLLOW EACH RAIN; MAY THE HAND OF A FRIEND ALWAYS BE NEAR YOU; MAY GOD FILL YOUR HEART WITH GLADNESS TO CHEER YOU. |
Will Durant. “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” [Quotes of the Day] [Finklea.com]
OS X comes with a list of all the words in Webster's 2nd International Dictionary (234,936 of them to be precise). These words can be found in the file /usr/share/dict/words. I find it useful to search this list if I'm not sure how spell a given word by using the following command:
% more /usr/share/dict/words | grep [pattern] | more
This should return a list of words from the dictionary that contain your [pattern] (don't type the square brackets) of interest.
Another interesting file is /usr/share/dict/propernames, which is a list of common (mostly Western) names (useful if you're having difficulty coming up with a name for your newborn).
Making Radio Fly
Yesterday, after helping a friend install Radio on XP, I realized how blazingly fast his usage was versus mine. I had read that there were some 'issues' with using Radio server on the same Mac that you browse from, but even when I switched from IE to Chimera, the speed up was minimal.
Since Radio is not yet available for Linux (HINT HINT!!) I thought I'd install Radio on the XP box I have here and see if I could move my files across platforms. It took a bit of hide & seek in the migration of the files, but after about 30 minutes, everything transitioned smoothly.
I'm excited to say that Radio has never been this much fun! It is SOOOO fast now and I'm a much happier Radio user. In this new setup, I'm able to access my Radio install from the public Internet as well as from my local network so I still have the same great access at close to a 5x speed increase.
Of course, this leaves me wondering why, with all the great improvements in OS X and its use of BSD and Apache, is Radio so much slower on a Mac. Any ideas?
Radio Question: I changed my theme and my front page is new, but all the pages from my categories are still using the old theme. Is there a way to re-generate every page in my archive?
Thanks In Advance!!
Grasping XML
A great resource for XML and XSLT tutorials can be found at:
A Gentle Introduction to XSLT through HTML Templates can be found in the collection here.