Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

I’ve integrated ‘my creations’ into this database, and now it is split into two sections; ‘music‘, and ‘software‘. The old URL is now depreciated, but I’ll leave a forwarding page, since it seems to be statically referenced throughout a good portion of the net. ;)

I’ve fixed the archive functions for my diary today. I’m rather happy about that. While I was digging through this horrendous code, I’ve updated the RSS to be a bit more descriptive. Specifically, adding description tags for each entry. Trivial, but much more effective.

As I haven’t created, or ut...

I recieved this in my mail today:

Your hosting account with [deleted] for [deleted].com has expired on 2004-02-03.

I got a similar one for a secondary domain. Aside from being 11 months early… come on, guys! ;)

In other news, qmail-pop3 is horrid. It can’t handle streamlining. What this means...

I’m a zsh fiend. I’ve been using it as my shell of choice since about ’97. compctl is absolutely wonderful, and it’s bourne compatibility is nearly second to none, without being quite as antsy as bash2.

That said, today I’ve opted to share a few macros from my .zshrc

rfc () { curl -s http://ww...

I’ve not been playing with AppleScript much, so I opted to reserect it, since Apple was kind enough to provide it with their Developer Tools.

For a simple little test, I made probably one of the worst coded applets in Applescript history; a talking clock. Then, I decided to just go hog wild and ma...

Time for another quick tip! I know I removed the ones from before – Sorry; I’ve been changing my diary quite a bit, and considered it somewhat out of date. Besides, I have no idea if anyone even bothers reading this silly little journal of mine.

Assuming you have a bourne compliant shell, this wil...