January 15th, 2007
I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7 to close various security holes (though I very much doubt this release closes the last of them. WordPress is still breaking one of the most fundamental rules of HTTP: Thou shalt not use GET for unsafe operations.) Holler if you notice anything funky.
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January 15th, 2007
The iPhone will not allow third party applications to be installed. That much we know. Does that matter? Yes, but maybe not as much as it used to.
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January 14th, 2007
I am seeking tools (especially GUI tools) that will perform regular expression, grep like search and replaces. Ideally the tool would be open source, multiplatform and would provide the functionality of BBEdit:

Requirements include:
- Transparent handling of line endings
- Able to recursively descend through various directories
- File filters to determine what to search
- Autodetection of character encodings
I could write this myself in Java, but not by my deadline. Any suggestions?
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January 12th, 2007

Lafreniere Park, Jefferson Parish, 2006-12-27
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January 12th, 2007
Game over. Sony has forfeited and Blu-Ray has lost.
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January 11th, 2007
You sometimes see this error message when attempting to run a Perl, Python, or shell script that uses a shebang line to find the interpreter. For example,
$ hello.pl
-bash: hello.pl: command not found
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