Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

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@radinfo can't justify the cost for FOWA. Also, I don't fly if I can at all help it. (read, emergency only)

12:19am January 7, 2009

 Side Notes

• Twitter Productivity. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? Well, with the recent announcement of i want sandy’s demise, I came across a Twitter bot that actually seems like a productive tool for the Twitterer. Timer allows you to simply follow it, in which it then follows you. Then you simply send Timer a direct message to remind you of something upcoming, ie, d Timer 60 call client X. You’ll then get a direct message 60 minutes later reminding you to call client X. Seems it only recognizes minutes, so I’m not sure how efficient it is for reminding you of something past the short term, but it’s still an interesting tool. Couple the concept with the fact that the developers of i want sandy are now working for Twitter, we might see similar type tools integrated into Twitter.

• Without getting into the whys and hows this statement came about, I find it very simple, yet poignant and applicable to many of life’s situations.

  We’re still learning to walk, and we’re going to trip every now and then and sometimes when we run, we’re going to fall on our faces. But as long as we get up, try again, and learn something from the experience, in the end, skinned knees and all, it’ll be worth it.

  Thanks Sean.

  edit - might I add, I’m in a new-ish romantic relationship, which very recently hit a bump, and perhaps this analogy hit home there more than anywhere.

• SVN Notifiier is a handy little Mac Dashboard widget that, using Growl, will notify you when a local working copy is out of date. I’ve not quite gotten the “sticky” notice to work, but I just might need to edit the actual Growl settings.

  Still, it’s nice to be able at a glance check your dashboard, or see a little growl notice pop up.

• I think with the help of a google search and Scott Gruby, I’ve figured out how to use my bluetooth keyboard in VM.

  Finally, I found a reference to inserting the Leopard DVD while in Windows. I tried this and when I did, the BootCamp driver installer came up and installed my drivers. Perfect; why couldn’t VMWare say something about this on their website?

  Thanks Scott and I agree, why isn’t this documented somewhere.

  Edit 8/1/08Seems you also have to disconnect the USB Bluetooth Host Controller to get it to work. Something about only one OS can control the device at a time, so the machine gets confused when the two are both connected. Disconnecting the controller, shutting down the XP install, then restarting VMware Fusion finally got it working.

• Chris Davis quoting Owen Winklerfrom IRC on what Habari is.

  Certainly couldn’t have said it better myself.