Dr Fragen in the operating room
  • VoodooPad Automation

    I’ve finally gotten it working. I’ve now got a Ruby script that will parse the `meta.xml` grabbing the category information and move the *web export* produced html file into a folder named for each category. These category folders are created in the `preflight.sh` script. Additionally, since I use relative paths for my site links, I’ve…

  • Si is my favorite element

    It’s finally happened. The most studied device in the history of the FDA has finally been [approved][1]. Far and away this device lends itself to the creation of the most natural breast augmentation. [1]: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01512.html

  • VoodooPad Blogging

    Well, it’s not really [VoodooPad][vp] blogging but it’s pretty close. With a lot of help from [Gus Mueller][gm], I’ve managed to complete a couple of [Lua][] Script Plugins for VoodooPad Pro. You have to use VoodooPad Pro because of the use of the page meta data. These scripts are designed to be used with the…

  • Updating HumaneText.service

    For the record [HumaneText.service][1] is a Mac OS X service that will convert back and forth between [Markdown][md] and XHTML. As newer versions of Aaron Swartz’s [html2text][2] script and John Gruber’s Markdown script become available updating this service is a simple matter. 1. Copy in the new script to the HumaneText.service package. 2. If updating…

  • SFTP over Bonjour

    Beware extreme geekiness moment. I get to *maintain* my own LANs. It’s actually kinda fun in a real perverse way. I know I’m really behind it but I just discovered that I can use [Transmit][1], my favorite FTP app, to connect to my local network over Bonjour and send files to my other Mac. Woo…

  • S/MIME

    Well, I finally got around to getting a free certificate and enabling Mail.app to be able to sign and encrypt email. [This article][1] was invaluable. **Key point:** If you get a certificate from [Thwate][] you must use [Firefox][], Safari doesn’t work. [1]: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/20/mail.html [thwate]: http://www.thwate.com [firefox]: http://www.firefox.com