Cherry-picking Pearls in San Francisco

i love the girls in the background realizing just what it is he's singing

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via mini.sippey.com

Ok I had to google the lyrics to find it was from Lady GAGA, But HEY at least I knew already who Lady Gaga was.

Yesterday I learned about Justin Bieber, I can't wait to discover what tomorrow is made of.

Spammers now use image distortion technics, too

I guess they plan on reusing the opensource technology to defeat this kind of spam to solve CAPTCHA, once it exists?

 
 

Getting started with Perl development on your new mac.

This is basically how I get started myself nowadays:

- I install Xcode (from the dvd or from ADC)
- I install MacPorts using the dmg http://www.macports.org/install.php
- I install perl5.10 (first thing after install MacPorts) This will nicely override System's Perl without altering it: (see also my other post)

 sudo port install perl5 +perl5_10

- I install local::lib (which keeps all my installed Perl modules local, in my home directory): Basically I run the bootstrapping steps provided by http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?local::lib
- I install git:

sudo port install git-core +bash_completion+doc+svn

- Then I install my dotfiles (I basically clone http://github.com/yannk/dotfiles-yann and run make) (which has settings for local::lib, git etc...). I mention it here because I find it convenient for me, but it's totally optional of course.
- Then I install CPAN Minus...

git clone git://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus.git
cd cpanminus
perl Makefile.PL
make install

and voila!

Then each time I need a module from the cpan it resolves around a simple:

cpanm Module

in most cases, thanks to the elegance of CPAN minus. For a bit more complex cases (when there is an external dependency, like a C library), I first install the missing libs from macports).

Apple iMac User-Installable Touchscreen "SlipCOVER"

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that's the video I was writing about in my previous post. In line videos makes more compelling posts I've been told

Apple iMac TouchScreen

I paid a visit to The California Academy of Science yesterday, and I was mesmerized by the fact that they got Touch Sensitive iMacs.

The irony is that even though it's Apple hardware, which sure looks nice in the building, it appears to run Windows. At least some of them do: I was looking at their photo store booth, which was running DarkRoom software, maybe it is virtualized -- I'm not sure.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have missed this hardware announcement from Apple if it was truly an Apple product, I surely did notice the rumor saying that such product was coming out this year. My best guess so far is that it is in fact a Troll Touch addon maybe a slipcover?

How To enable perl5.10 by default with MacPorts

$ port uninstall perl5.8
--->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on it:
--->    perl5

So, you should type:

$ port -f uninstall perl5.8 
--->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on it:
--->    perl5
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
--->  Uninstalling perl5.8 @5.8.9_3

and finally:

$ port install perl5 +perl5_10
...

which gives:

$ perl -v | grep built
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for darwin-multi-2level

Triggering ScreenSaver (and lock) with a shortcut on Snow Leopard

I've been using this for a long time, but lately I've found that it wasn't working so well (The screen saver would launch and then stop right away).

Initially, I was using quicksilver and the guts of the ScreenSaverEngine to run something like that:

 open '/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app'

There is a better way to launch the ScreeSaver, it's to use the following applescript

tell application "System Events"
start current screen saver
end tell

Finally, the main problem was that I was previously using this trigger with the key combination ⇧⌘L 'on press', but it's much better to use 'on release', solving a race issue making the screensaver exit almost immediately.

So to sum up:

1. install Quicksilver (of course)
2. enable triggers (maybe it's only in Beta?)
3. make sure you have the "Run as Applescript" action (might be in a plugin?)
4. add a trigger
5. in the item section, hit '=' (to type a text, instead of triggering a search)
6. paste the apple script above
7. select the "Run as Applescript"  action
8. select a 'on hold' hotkey

My ideal Nexus One setup would be something like that apparently.

- get the phone from Google not subsidized
- switch to t-mobile
- Even More Plus for Families 750 Talk + Text and 2 unlimited smartphone data
- unlock my iPhone v1 to give to Caroline

it's $120/month pre-tax + $530 one time purchase.

But, I think I'd rather wait porting my phone number to Google directly...

British Fashion

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and at a separate event:

 
 

via www.boston.com

My last tweet made me review these pictures in awe, and then I noticed these two different men in these distinct events. 

I don't mean to be critical or anything of my good friends over the other side of the channel, but, is this the beginning of a new fashion? Can't wait to have them in that outfit in the office. yay England!

Invest in your community: move your money to a community bank - majordojo

Invest in your community: move your money to a community bank - majordojo

Anyone is using one of the community banks listed in the 94107 zipcode? Like Byrne, I'm tempted to make the switch.