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  • Print off a calender for the year

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    [**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.

  • Bzz bzz

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    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…

  • Markdown Tool update

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    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…

  • Markdown in UserTalk

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    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/

  • Pages – First Impressions

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    [Pages][1] is part of [Apple][2]’s new [iWork][3] software package. It’s not meant to be a [Word][4] killer, but it’s close. Apples hits the 80:20 rule on the nose. Make 80% of the users happy with a simple to use application and let the other 20% have the power features but at a little more difficulty.…

  • activeRenderer update

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    Marc Barrot has introduced 3 new callbacks in `activeRendererSuite.activeRenderer` for [activeRenderer][aR] v2.4.6. The callbacks are `preProcess` (which is equivalent to my prior posting at the `if ol` line), `postProcess` (which occurs just before the final `return`), and `processNode` (which is inside of the `getText` routine). I’ve re-written the [Markdown][1] callbacks so that they now work…