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  • Markdown Tool: Pre-rendering and swapping

    As I post more new entries the older ones will fall off my home page and the pre-render/swapping code in the Markdown tool will gradually take over from rendering on the fly. As [Patrick][1] has so aptly stated it will, and does, cut down on the CPU cycles. I noticed this by having the preference…

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  • Print off a calender for the year

    [**macosxhints**](http://www.macosxhints.com) says: >[**Print off a calender for the year**](http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050205000819433) >To print off a yearly calendar, open the Terminal and type: `cal -y|open -f` >This will display a full-year’s calendar in TextEdit. Print the TextEdit document, and you’re done. This works in this manner: cal -y generates a … This is pretty cool.

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  • Bzz bzz

    Well, I’ve been driven out of my office each of the past 2 afternoons. I was being invaded by bees. It seems the were looking for a new home — in my roof. It’s amazing how those little suckers get inside. Well, Monday after we called Dewey Pest Control, they sent out Aaron and in…

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  • Markdown Tool update

    We’ve come along way since I started this project. [Patrick Ritchie][1] first contributed an alternate method of pre-rendering the posts at post time and then swapping in the rendered version when Radio did it’s publishing. My method was to render each post as needed. Patrick’s method made much better use of CPU resources so, over…

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  • Markdown in UserTalk

    Well, Marc Barrot has done it. He’s converted [Markdown][1].pl to UserTalk. Now the process of cleaning up the tool begins. Yeah debugging. Stay tuned. [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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