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Blogging from BBEdit, redux

I’ve been having blog problems the past couple of weeks. My script for publishing from BBEdit has been working fine when publishing new posts, but it’s been throwing errors when updating posts after editing. I’m not sure what has changed. I did update my WordPress installation recently, but I’m also suspicious of new configurations my…Read More…

Quick invoicing emails with MailMate

I’m not ready to write a post on the positives and negatives (mostly positives) of MailMate, but I am ready to share a script that automates one of my common emailing tasks. The invoices I send to clients are PDFs that I attach to a short email. The body of the email is boilerplate: here’s…Read More…

Mapping photos with Pythonista 1.5

This tweet from Ole Zorn on Saturday took a load off my mind: Pythonista 1.5 has passed Apple’s review – release on Monday, more details soon. \o/— Ole Zorn (@olemoritz) Jun 14 2014 6:27 AM First, I was relieved to see that Ole had dodged the App Store’s threat to remove Pythonista. Second, I could…Read More…

3 Cities in West Africa You Should Visit To Experience Voodoo

When you hear the word “voodoo”, Hollywood’s version of cult and horror could be the image that automatically strikes in your mind with matching… The post 3 Cities in West Africa You Should Visit To Experience Voodoo appeared first on When On Earth – Places to See, Things to Do, Gear to Get.Read More…

  • By danielle
  • May 26, 2014
  • Posted in science
  • Also tagged benin, Culture, Do..., Festivals, fetish market, grand popo, lome, ouidah, Religion, See..., togo, voodoo, west africa

You’re Not Truly Relaxed Until a Python Named Walter Gives You a “Massage”

Imagine: you walk into a spa, prepared to get a nice relaxing rubdown, and what does your masseur turn out to be but a 20 foot Burmese python?! Total chill-killer, right? Maybe not — apparently visitors to the Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines just love being buried under a pile of snakes.Read More…

A slightly better SuperDuper! summary

Time flies. Just over seven (!) years ago, I posted a Perl script that pulls out certain information from a SuperDuper! log file and prints it to standard output. I’ve been using that script ever since as way for GeekTool to display the results of the previous night’s backup on my Desktop. It’s certainly important…Read More…

Sorting by parts, redux

I got some nice feedback on my “Sorting by parts” post from a few days ago. Enough, I thought, to write a new post instead of just updating the old one. Recall that all of this stems from T.J. Luoma’s original. The idea was to sort a list of domains, like foo.tjluoma.com a.luo.ma bar.luo.ma b.tjluoma.com…Read More…

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