Moleskine, in Memoriam

May 24, 2008 | wessf

Inside view of a Moleskine ruled notebook; the elastic band is visible on the right, as is the bookmark in the center.Just received two new Moleskine notebooks in the mail. Under normal conditions, this delivery would tend to incite an atmosphere of inspiration and literary proliferation within me. But, alas, I am but only halfway through my current notebook and not quite finished with my previous Moleskine. So, with a notable degree of disappointment, I place them safely in the old file cabinet along side the handful of readily available sci-fi novels I’ve yet to get to. Someday, little friends. Someday.

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Finding Contentment in an Internet World

April 27, 2008 | wessf

from tfd.com:
con·tent·ment
n.
1. The state of being contented; satisfaction.
2. A source of satisfaction

This is a vast topic, to be sure. I hesitate to dive in without first explaining my utter lack of authority on the subject, especially in regard to practical application. So I won’t be solving the problem in this post. Sorry. The best I can do is bring it to mind Read more »

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Combining Two or More Geeky Things

March 8, 2008 | wessf

This was from a blog post that went up on my birthday, and it caught my eye because, well, it’s geeky-cool. It takes Twitter, a somewhat geeky online micro-blogging platform, and combines it with the command line (need I say more). This apparently works for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I got it working on my Xubuntu in literally less than a minute. By the way, it’s just for updating your status, not for seeing other’s posts. Here’s the link: Digital Streets

I implemented this bash script to make it easier (taken from the comments on the Digital Streets blog - thanks chukaman, whoever you are) -

#!/bin/bash
#

USERNAME="type_your_username_here"
PASSWORD="type_your_password_here"

if [ $# != 1 ]
then
echo “Usage: ${0##*/} your tweet as you would like it to read”
exit 1
fi
tweet=$1
curl -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD -d status=”$1? http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Follow the Digital Streets link above to understand how it works, if you’re interested, [you geek, you]

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