pudge's Journalpudge's use Perl JournalPudge Headed to YouTubeCNNGOP Debate in Florida- November 27, 2007 A couple of weeks ago I got an e-mail from Steve Grove, who works on the News & Politics section on YouTube. He's the face of "Citizen Tube."I had submitted some questions to the GOP candidates for the upcoming YouTubeCNNGOP debate, and he liked them, and also liked some of the songs I'd put up on my YouTube channel. Out of the blue, he asked me about writing a song about the GOP candidates and the debate. That night I jotted down some lyrics and had a tune in my head, and the next night.http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34987?from=rss Leopard, CoreFoundation, and exec()- November 20, 2007 Under Leopard, using Mac::Carbon: pudgebourque $ happeningRunning background process Userspudgebinhappening (983)The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___ YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug. Apparently, fork-without-exec with CoreFoundation has always been bad. But it is now an exception.So in the happening program, I had: $pid = fork;exit if $pid; Now I..http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34942?from=rss Beards- November 19, 2007 Many people on YouTube are commenting on my beard.For what it's worth, I've had this beard for 16 years, and it's not coming off any time soon. (I've had a beard for about 18 years, but I periodically shaved it until first semester of my freshman year of college. It's existed ever since.) Now Playing: Diana Krall - I've Changed My Addresshttp://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34934?from=rss GOP Debate Song- November 19, 2007 I've put up two versions of a relatively untitled song I wrote and recorded last weekend. The first is the original live version, and the second puts other video images to the same music.The first video is now up on the front page of YouTube as the top "featured video."Enjoy!http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34931?from=rss Leopard Front Row Hate: Counting The Ways- November 17, 2007 It thinks I am Japanese. Tiger Front Row did not.It does not show cover art for shared sources. Tiger Front Row did.When I am fast-scrolling down a list of items, and I see the item I want, and so I let go of the button to stop scrolling, I go way past that item as the list slows to a stop. Tiger Front Row stopped pretty much immediately, on or near the thing I wanted.It does not have any way to repeat. At least with Tiger Front Row, I could use my (non-Apple) remote to tell iTunes make the.http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34914?from=rss Thank Goodness for the Bruins (was: 1986, 2004, ... 2007)- November 14, 2007 In a recent journal entry I noted the Boston sports teams are doing pretty well. Since then, the Celtics have started the season 6-0, and the Patriots have gone to 9-0. And the Bruins have slipped a bit in the standings, having lost some close games.I paraphrased The Simpsons, saying, "The Patriots are still winning, dominant as ever. The Celtics picked up some major stars, the Red Sox have the best record in the league, and the Bruins ... well, we love the Bruins."Here's a song by Ryan...http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34894?from=rss Asterisk- November 9, 2007 Talk of an "asterisk" because the Patriots "cheated" ignores the undispitable fact that there is no allegation or evidence of any kind that the Patriots broke the rules regarding "spying" that in any way affected any game this season.Anyone who talks of an "asterisk," should the Patriots go undefeated, just ends up looking like an idiot.And yes, that includes Marcellus Wiley and Don Shula.http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34865?from=rss Stupid Mac::Glue Tricks: Leopard Spaces- November 4, 2007 So a lot of times when using Spaces under Leopard, windows just ... disappear. They are not visible in any space. So I have to open up the System Preferences and turn Spaces off, and then back on, which fixes it.Here's a script that I put in my Script Menu (LibraryScriptsReset Spaces.scpt) so I have quick access to it. tell application "System Events" set (spaces enabled of spaces preferences of expose preferences) to false set (spaces enabled of spaces preferences...http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/34825?from=rss |