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I’ve been using NewsFire to manage my RSS feeds for… well, as long as I’ve been using RSS. That developer just ‘gets it’ about the interface, as far as I’m concerned. It’s sexy and easy to use.
But there have been problems. For about as long as I’ve been using it, there have been certain feeds [...]

Sometimes I’m given files running rampant with ^M’s all over the place (that’s Ctrl-M, by the way). On my Mac, I was having an oddly strange time getting rid of them in Vi. Then today I happened to run across this tidbit by accident:
Hit “:”. The cursor drops to the bottom of the screen. Type [...]

My server is in Regina. I’m in Kingston. As good as the Regina tech support is (i.e. my dad), hardware failure is a bit much.
I’m recovering from a backup onto Drew’s server.

I’ve been running a lot of time-consuming scripts recently, so I wrote a perl script, notifyme, to notify me via Growl when a given command has completed. I’ve put it in my ~/bin so i can call it from anywhere.
Example: I’m running a batch NCBI Blast and want a sticky bubble to appear:
notifyme -s True [...]

It’s the end of the year and I’m checking my marks on QCARD only to discover that I’ve failed a course. That’s right, failed. Only, it’s a course I wasn’t in. I dropped it in the first week of winter semester.
That was yesterday. Today I checked QCARD again to realize not only that I am [...]