Date: 2009-02-06 21:16:40 Created: 2009-02-06 15:11:21
Very, very minor, even. Sometimes I add external links to posts I make. When one views the post on its own page, they appear in the side menu to the right of the main text.
After I re-made the start page to list the latest posts it became the easiest way to read things.
The little problem: the news page neither provided links to the pages, nor did it even indicate the presence of external links.
So I threw in a small box displaying any external links right there.
Complete with eventually-to-be-standardized border radius CSS styling providing nicely rounded corners.
Now, I suppose the next step is to make it more convenient for me to add externals ...
My love affair with Textmate continues, despite the fact that I've hardly even scratched the surface of what it can do.
Oh, I just repaired the preview function for comment posting as well. It sure was broken a while before anyone noticed ...
Anyway, Textmate! Apart from the nice icon, two things I already appreciate for their real usefulness is the quick launching and how painless it is to work with large files. The lack of the second ability in so many editors on Mac OS has confused me ever since I became a serious Mac user. On any Windows installation one of my setup reflexes is to download Editplus, and after that I'm done. Any file I want to look at I throw at it
and boom, we're done.
On the Mac, for some darn reason, things were different. Smultron is/was my general go-to text editor, but whenever something above a few hundred kilobytes came knocking I'd get kind of nervous. Not to mention impatient, as scrolling started chugging and stuttering. So I'd end up doing odd things like breaking out the terminal or remoting into the adjacent PC and doing my processing there. Strange times. Jedit did, if I recall correctly, get the job done as such. But it also looked prety horrible and rarely seemed to play well (i.e. start) with my Java installations. So that was out too.
But now I have Textmate, which both looks at home and can open large text files without pause.
Is it sad that those two things together are enough to make me happy?
For those of you wondering if it is any fun at all riding a lift with Linda:
Yes.
My caffeine free cup of coffee is running low, I'm feeling tired after a good week at work and Garbage is playing.
Not bad really.
I've taken the Algorithm design manual home and started reading it "for real" or whatever to call it. My math and related skills are just sooo rusty ...
... so I shouldn't be able to avoid picking up useful things.
Even if it may not be on the level it could be.
But that's why you can go back and re-read. Some day.
I think this means I should put the book on my reading list and mark it as in progress.
There.
That won't stop me from devouring some more Sandman very soon though. One has to Dream ...
I've been in a real Okami period the past week, letting it have most of my spare time. But toward the end of Wednesday night it ran into a little motivation snag when what looked like the last stretch to the final boss fight turned out to be a mandatory jumping puzzle (over damaging spikes, yay!) on the way to a major but by no means final boss.
Am I the only one who feels annoyed when what looks like the end of a game turns out not to be? I kind of feel robbed of and accomplishment, for some silly reason. Really, I should be glad there's more of that great game left. Must be those spikes ... What were they thinking when they put that in there? Does it feel to anyone like it fits in with the style of the game before that point? Is the rest of the game going to be more in that vein?
...
Shudder ...
Make no mistake though: I will finish that game. And I won't let there be a huge break. I'll get back to it ... on Sunday, perhaps? Soon, in any case. Then I'll get myself more yummy demon fangs and other neat stuff!
The last song of Beautiful garbage is playing. Then I'll be off ... the computer. And probably on the bed instead.
Mmm, sleep ...