Very cool looking new IDE concept. I wonder if it’ll come to fruition.
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Ever since Stieg Larsson erupted on to the literary scene there have been any number of Scandinavian authors being translated into English, hoping, I think, to cash in on the “Scandinavian best seller craze”. 1222 by Anne Holt is one of the better ones I’ve tried. She manages to out Christie Agatha. I’ll have to look for others by Holt as I quite enjoyed the central character of Hanne Wilhelmsen.
Recently there was an excellent hint on Mac OS X Hints about how to show only personal emails in the badge on the Apple Mail icon. I liked the hint enough that I’ve implemented it on my machine, with a slight modification as I have multiple mail accounts and wanted personal emails from two of those to aggregate into the unread badge.
The first step is to create two new mail rules for each account that receives personal email. You can create a new rule by choosing Mail > Preferences > Rules and then clicking on “Add rule”. One rule will flag previous senders and the other senders who are already in your address book. I named my rules “flag account previous senders” and “flag account address book” where “account” is my name for the given account. The “previous senders” rule should have the following selections made:
The “address book” variation should have these selections made:
The reason for splitting these rules apart is so that we can filter by account. My address book contains the email addresses of my co-workers, and if these rules are combined as shown in the Mac OS X Hints article, you will end up flagging work emails.
Repeat this pair of rules for each account that gets personal mail.
The next step in the article is to create a smart mailbox that uses the “previous sender” and “address book” rule pairs. Since I have 4 email accounts set up in mail, two of which are personal accounts, one of which is for mailing lists, and my work account; I needed two smart mailbox rules – one for each personal account.
Create a smart mailbox called “Relevant account email” where account is the name of the first personal account. You can create a smart mailbox by choosing Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox. Specify that emails in the smart mailbox should satisfy all of the following conditions:
Repeat these steps for each account that receives personal email you wish to aggregate into your unread mail badge. Since the smart mailbox filters on account, emails in the work account which would have been flagged by a combined rule above, would not be shown in the badge. However they would still be needlessly flagged.
Next create a smart mailbox to “sum” the counts from the “Relevant” smart mailboxes. (Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox.) Call this smart mailbox “Mail Badge”. Add the following condition once for each “Relevant” mailbox you created in the previous step.
Finally go to the General Mail preferences (Mail > Preferences > General), and set “Dock unread count” to be the “Mail Badge” smart mailbox.
The mail badge will now count unread personal emails. You will no longer be nagged by unread work emails over the weekend or while on vacation.
Remember this kid’s name – he’s going to go far in this life.
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s latest Gideon Crew novel, Gideon’s Corpse, is good pulp fiction but not a terribly deep story. Like too many action movies this story jumps from one implausible episode to another. I suspect that there are publisher deadlines in the background requiring a new Preston/Child novel on a regular schedule. Books like Gideon’s Corpse are the result of trying to fit creative work into a set schedule.
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The Detachment merges the two story lines Barry Eisler has created into a single storyline. The venerable John Rain mets up with and works with Ben Treven and Daniel Larison, along with his cohort Dox. Eisler isn’t shy about sharing his opinions through his stories. With his CIA background you have to wonder what is fiction and what is fact sometimes. The Detachment flirted with being a little unbelievable at times, but is still a good read. Here’s hoping the next Eisler novel explores Dox’s background, and maybe gets him a full name.
A hilarious look at the power of great design.
When I first started using Octopress I forked the repository on Github giving me my own repository called “octopress”. Ever since I’ve wanted to have it named after my website since that is what the repository really contains. Turns out renaming a Github repository is simple.
First navigate to the “Admin” page for the repository you wish to rename. Change the Repository Name and click on the Rename button. Github will present you with a warning dialog. You should pay attention to this if you are renaming a repository shared by multiple people. In my case I’m the only committer and therefore I was able to ignore the warning.
Next you need to drop and re-add the remote on your local copy. (You could, I suppose, remove the local copy entirely and re-clone the repository. The drop and re-add is faster.)
$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:"yourusername"/"projectname".gitI made sure I had committed and pushed all changes to Github before starting this process, but this wasn’t necessary – just me being cautious.
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The third and final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy. Like the second installment of the story, this one is more internal dialog and less action. The ending has a nice twist and the whole set was ultimately satisfying. This is not great literature, but it is good fun and worth a couple of days reading.