What the… ?
According to the weekly report I get from Atomz (the software that powers the search on this site), one of the phrases someone used to search this site was “where can i find funding for educational reform in brazil.” What the…?
Posts from July 2002
OS X Screen Shots
I always forget these, so I’m putting them here where I know I’ll be able to find them again:
Command-Option-Control-Shift-4: copy the crosshaired selection to memory.
Shift-Command-3: shoot the whole screen (both if you’re running a double display setup like I do at work)
Shift-Command-4: gives you crosshairs to select a chunk of the screen for the screenshot.
Also, with a third-party preferences pane like OrangePrefs (can’t find a link for it right now) or by using Terminal to get into the guts, you can set the screenshot format to various different file formats: TIFF (the default), JPEG, and PNG.
Leo McKern RIP
Leo McKern, who starred as Rumpole in the British TV series, Rumpole of the Bailey,has died. My wife and I had read all the Rumpole books before seeing the TV series, and McKern WAS Rumpole. RIP.
stick a fork in me
RippleOutfitters.com is out the door. It’s the new website I built for a local flyfishing, hunting, travel business. The site includes a full CMS for managing articles, news items, and fishing reports; a subscription newsletter system; and full ecommerce with a custom shopping cart and web-based admin interface. I WAY undercharged them. But, it was a great learning experience (it was the biggest project I’ve ever done for a freelance client, though I’ve done bigger things for my regular web development gig) and I enjoyed working through all the problems and challenges. It’s (more or less) done now, with only the inevitable post-launch tweaking to do.
Dive into Accessibility
Mark Pilgrim’s 30 days to a more accessible weblog now has a site of its own: Dive Into Accessibility. This is an outstanding resource for making all kinds of sites (not just blogs) more accessible.
