Posts for the year 2009

• Partial 'svn dcommit' with git

  31 Dec 2009

  Here at Mozilla, a bunch of webdevs use git svn instead of plain Subversion to interact with our svn repositories...

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• Another Fail-Pet: Github

  16 Dec 2009

  Here's another, beautiful specimen in my little collection of what I have called "fail pets" for awhile now: Github. I...

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• Wonder Where's All That Christmas Music on iTunes?

  15 Dec 2009

  If you are an American expat, or something along those lines, and are in the mood for some Christmas music,...

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• Mac Superdrive Noise-B-Gone Update?

  15 Dec 2009

  When skimming through my pending Mac OS X upgrades this morning I noticed one saying: This update eliminates the noise made...

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• Zombie-MacBook Wakes Itself up from Sleep

  29 Nov 2009

  For the longest time, I was sending my laptop to "hibernation" mode every night. Why? Not because I particularly mind...

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• The New Yorker - Thanksgiving

  28 Nov 2009

  While stumbling across the net, I found this, The New Yorker's Thanksgiving cover from 2006: The illustration feels a little...

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• "Assign to me" Jetpack

  25 Nov 2009

  Just recently, my colleague oremj published a bookmarklet making "assign this bug to me" a one-click operation in bugzilla. Obviously,...

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• Berlin Wall Pictures

  22 Nov 2009

  Just in time for the recent 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, boston.com's Big Picture has a...

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• Fixing an AVI File Index

  21 Nov 2009

  Today, I was watching an .avi file that neither allowed me to forward/rewind nor did it say the right total...

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• An Insight to the Berlin Wall

  11 Nov 2009

  In a New York Times article about the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, they add a schema...

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