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Posting Will Resume
OK, my hell month is over. Posting should resume tonight.
Posts
Yeah I know that, outside of the sideblog, I’ve not posted much the past couple of weeks. Sorry it’s just been ridiculously busy. There’s a TON I want to post on – and on solid scripts not just commentary. So don’t get impatient. A lot of good stuff is coming.
Script Storage
Posted by clark in Automation, Blog on 2010/02/02
I get a lot of Google searches which land on various scripts. Unfortunately the landing locations are often blog posts from months ago. Sometimes these are outdated or even non-functioning scripts. (Many were written before Snow Leopard) To try and let people know about the latest versions I’m putting up a Script page which will contain the latest versions of my various scripts. (See the tab near the top of the page)
I’m also using this as an excuse to clean up a lot of scripts. In many cases they use older Python classes that have been depreciated. In some cases they no longer work with Snow Leopard.
The first script I’ve added is my script to look up all addresses in my address book within a specified distance. I’ve modified it so it prompts with a dialog box for the address and only looks up addresses in my group “Clients” rather than all people. (I use this for when someone sends an email to me asking for nearby stores that stock our chocolate) I have this configured as a service using Automator. So it’s easy to access. It generates a nicely formatted list in either TextMate or Automator for pasting into a mail message.
Coming Back
Sorry for the delay with the site. I got a bad case of h1n1 (after vainly trying to get vaccine for two months). It ended up being so bad I was hospitalized for two weeks. I’ve been home for a week, but am still on oxygen. I’m sure many of you have stopped visiting. But since I’m stuck in bed I may have a few posts coming — as soon as I’m healthy enough.
Check out the Sideblog
If you’re just reading via rss you should check out the sideblog. Unfortunately it doesn’t show up on rss right now. (I haven’t decided if I’ll fix that or not – let me know if you’d like it to)
Most of my posts are only a few sentences and I place those in the sideblog rather than the main blog. I try and keep the main blog for more sustained posts – typically about scripting. However there are lots of links on the sideblog you might enjoy.
Programmer’s Font & Displaying Keys
Just a FYI, the best programmers monospaced font I’ve found is Inconsolata. All the source code I post here uses that font first. So if you have it installed on your system the program listings should look fantastic. My second favorite font is Lucida Console, which I think comes standard with OSX. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong) My third favorite is Andale Mono although most people don’t have that one. Some people still like the old Monaco font from the early days of MacOS. Personally I just think it looks dated and is hard to read. But some disagree. Read the rest of this entry »
Names
OK, a second request for any suggestions for naming this blog. (Yes this is that same post from a couple of weeks ago) “Clark Tech” isn’t exactly a google-friendly name. Plus it sounds kind of dopey. I’d like to do for tech what Kulturblog does for entertainment. So if you want to be a co-blogger comment here. I can only post occasionally so it’d be nice to have a few others to comment.
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