I was a little slow to pick up on the blogging thing. I have been writing in this particular forum for less than six months. Prior to that, I had a taste of blogging, through my connections with various friends on the LiveJournal site. Creating an ID at first just to post non-anonymous comments to […]

What are you dressing up for this Halloween? If you haven’t chosen a costume yet, let me suggest one. Using the command line tools “tcpdump” and “curl,” you can masquerade so convincingly, almost any web site will think you’re Safari! Something that came up recently on the AppleScript-Users list was a query about how to […]

NetNewsWire “Save to Delicious” scripts are popping up everywhere! I sent one to the NetNewsWire mailing list some time ago that handles the whole operation (IMHO) better than the others. The difference? The others either only bookmark web pages, or only bookmark news items. What!? Mine does both. This is a Mac! You can download […]

Since I’m a little obsessed with AppleScript, I end up pasting AppleScript code into my blog. I recently decided it was a real shame that I couldn’t easily replicate the way AppleScript code looks in Script Editor, in my blog. I thought about this situation for a while, and then did some experimenting. If I […]