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WhatIThink – RIP
January 5th, 2010Marcellus Wallace
December 8th, 2009NSFW
GeekTool
December 5th, 2009I’ve been playing around with GeekTool for a couple of days and I’ve finally gotten everything I want on my desktop.
Here’s what my desktop looks like at the moment:
My GeekTool Desktop
For reference, here’s my list of GeekTool Scripts:
- Computer Name: hostname -s
- Login Name: whoami
- Day: date “+%A”
- Month: date “+%b”
- Day (numerical): date “+%e”
- Time: date +”%I:%M”
- AM/PM: date +”%p”
- Mac OS X Version: sw_vers | awk -F’:\t’ ‘{print $2}’ | paste -d ‘ ‘ – - – ;
- Disk Usage: df -H | grep disk0s2 | awk ‘{print “Disk:”, $3, “/”, $2, “-”, $4, “available”}’
- Uptime: uptime | awk ‘{print “Up: ” $3 ” days”}’
- Airport Network Name: airport -I | grep -e “\bSSID:” | awk ‘{print $2}’
- Airport Channel: airport -I | grep -e “channel:” | awk ‘{print “Channel: ” $2}’
- Airport Max Rate: airport -I | grep -e “maxRate:” | awk ‘{print “Max Rate: ” $2}’
- Airport Link Authorisation: airport -I | grep -e “link auth:” | awk ‘{print “Auth: ” $3}’
- External IP: echo `curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | sed ’s/[a-zA-Z<>/ :]//g’`
- Running Processes: ps -c -U pmac -o command,%cpu,%mem -r
- Airport IP: ipconfig getifaddr en1
- Calendar: cal
- Network Location: scselect 2>&1 | grep ‘^ \*’ | sed -e ’s:^[^(]*(\([^)]*\))$:\1:g’
Most of these commands were culled from various websites, while I came up with the rest myself.
Bump
November 30th, 2009*BUMP*
Jack flinched at the sudden noise. The dark seemed to magnify the sounds around him. The darkness invaded his senses, made him groggy.
*BUMP*
He shook his head, trying to clear his head as the sound reverberated through him.
*BUMP* *BUMP*
Maybe it was the grogginess, but the sounds seemed to be moving away. His breath came in gasps. A low moan filled the space around him.
*Bump* *Bump*
Panic started to flower in his sub-conscious. Where was he? With some reluctance his arms explored the space before of him. Was that a door in front of him? No. Not a door, a roof. He was on his back. He took a deep breath. Concentrate. Think.
*Bump*
Where was he?
*bump* *bump* *bump*
He vaguely remembered the bar, driving home, a flash and a bang. He shook his head. Damn this hangover. Was he at home? Had he slept under the porch again?
*bump*
He’d better get up and see what was making that damned noise.
*bump* *bump* *bump*
He tried moving. His uncoordinated limbs made an attempt at sliding but only served to turn him on his side. Another deep breath. The air seared through his lungs. Another moan. Whatever had happened last night, he definitely had a broken rib, or two.
*bump bump*
He tried moving again, but his arms and legs seemed to have a mind of their own. He wasn’t going anywhere in this condition.
*bump bump bump*
The noise that had woken him was receding. Whatever his predicament, he’d need help to get out of here. Another breath. Another stab of pain in his chest. Mustering all his will-power he tried to call Mary.
His vocal cords couldn’t comply.
All he could manage was “BRAINS”.
Up
November 12th, 2009Saw “Up” last week. I can’t stress how good this movie is. Go watch it. Buy it on DVD when it becomes available. Easily the best film I’ve seen this year.
To Do List
November 12th, 2009Top of the list: Update my WordPress plugins.
Anything else I should add?
Best €35 I’ve Ever Spent
November 12th, 2009Join the Irish Times Crossword Club. Having access to the interactive Crosaire everyday is well worth the €35 per annum.
Is Bloging Dying?
November 12th, 2009With the advent of Facebook, Twitter et al, more people seem to be moving away from the traditional blog and on to social networks.
I’ve noticed that some of my favourite blogs don’t seem to be updated as frequently as they used to. I’ve also noticed that I seem to spend more time on Facebook than I do on my blog. Is it because there is less effort required to write a tweet or is it because there is more interaction on Facebook/ Twitter? What do you think?
Theme Update
October 21st, 2009I’m playing around with a new theme, so you may notice some random weirdness while I iron out some bugs. If you do see anything wrong, please let me know. Thanks, Paul.