Apr
12
One of my favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut, passed away yesterday. My initial
experience with Vonnegut was in high school, when I was
forced to read 'Slaughter House Five' for a class called
'Novels Satire'. I must admit, that it wasn't until my
second time reading the novel that I really fell in love
with his writing style. Since then, I've read a large
number of his works including: 'Slaughter House Five',
'Timequake', 'Breakfast of Champions', 'Mother Night',
'Cat's Cradle', and am currently enjoying 'Bluebeard'.
It's weird to think that there will be no more new books
to read from him. So long Mr. Vonnegut. So it goes.
Apr
11
Someone please tell my why this Twitter crap has become so
damn popular all of the sudden?
Do people really care what other people are doing? Why
would I waste my time typing out a message explaining what
I'm doing?
What's the deal with twitter?
UPDATE (04.27.07): Okay... So I signed up for twitter
to see what the deal was. ummm... and ummm... I must
ummm... admit, I'm addicted, and I can't even explain why.
So, I guess the question in the title of this post is still
legit: What's the deal with Twitter? I've been converted
www.twitter.com/trick
lin
Apr
03
A co-worker recommended I download a program touting to
be the "TextMate" for
Windows called "E-TextEditor". For
those of you who don't know what TextMate is, it is an HTML
editor exclusively for Mac, that is exclusively amazing.
Knowing the great things TextMate offers, and owning a PC
myself, I was pretty excited to see if the claims were true.
So, I downloaded, and I honestly must say, I'm very
impressed. The functionality of this editor is pretty
amazing. There really is a long list of things that can be
done with this editor, so I'll just list a few of my
favorite things (like the song):
- If you have the HTML bundle selected, and create a new
document, and type 'skel' + Tab, TextEditor will
automatically generate an HTML skeleton for you:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Page Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/master.css"
type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title"
charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
- Type 'Table' + Tab and see what happens
- Holding down the 'Alt' key, and clicking and dragging
your mouse over text will allow you to do column
selection.
- Type 'h1' + Tab, and the h1 open and close will
auto-generate. Then begin typing, and based on the content,
E-TextEditor will suggest a value for the h1's 'id'.
The list goes on an on. Anyway, I recommend downloading
the trial version, and giving it a try. You may find it
worth the $35 to own it outright.
