have browser, will travel Jim Roepcke's weblog, since 1999

HKWT

Once I'm finally home, maybe I should rename my weblog, have kids, will telecommute. I never intended to travel, but I must have jinxed myself. (d'oh)

My Cute Kids

I just published a photo album with iPhoto:

My Cute Kids

Awwww... aren't they cute? (I miss them so!)

RE: UNIX’s ‘look’ command

Sam DeVore likes that look command and made a nice Radio macro for it so you can use it on your Radio web site.

Cool! 3 lines of code including the declaration. Frontier on OS X kicks ass.

Jabber in Radio/Frontier

Jeremy Bowers announced jabber.root on Wednesday. Somehow, I missed this. Check it out!

Pregnant Women Can Fly

It's true! They can. Wow...

(Update: fixed the URL. ARGH)

Nat on Optimized Object Generation

Mulle kybernetiK: Optimized Object Generation

This is the fifth installment of the "How to optimize in Objective-C" series. But remember folks... optimize when you have a performance problem, not before.

3DOSX Download

3DOSX Download

3DOSX is incredible. Totally worth the download, and some fun play time. However, at this point, I wouldn't say it's totally worth using. It's clearly just starting, and is very cool, but not nearly functional enough yet.

The good news is Nicholas Riley is among the people working on it. That means it's bound to kick ass as long as he's still involved.

Ha! I posted this and noticed Nicholas responded to my earlier post about Fink just a few minutes ago, to warn me (and you) that there are errors in the tutorial. Thanks!

Fink tutorial

via Brent's mac.scripting.com site, a tutorial on setting up and using Fink to acquire, install and manage open source UNIX software on Mac OS X.

OSXGuide.com: Installing Open Source Software on OS X With Fink

UNIX’s ‘look’ command

look cogni

Welcome to Darwin!
[localhost:~] jim% look cogni
cognisable
cognisance
cognition
cognitional
cognitive
cognitively
cognitum
cognizability
cognizable
cognizableness
cognizably
cognizance
cognizant
cognize
cognizee
cognizer
cognizor
[localhost:~] jim% 

D'OH! Apparently this has been a part of UNIX environments for about 20 years. How could I have missed this? Oh well... the good news is Johnie's a UNIX shell maniac, and I'll surely learn lots more from him.

George W. Bush: go away!

BBC News: US 'has nuclear hit list'

This just makes me sick to my stomach. It's just horrible in every imaginable way.

I remember back in 1983-84, I learnd about nuclear war for the first time. I saw pictures and videos of the concequences. I remember laying in bed at night worried that it was basically eminent, that it could happen any day, and that I should just enjoy the rest of my life because I wasn't sure how long it was going to last before I had to suffer nuclear winter and death soon thereafter.

Eventually I grew out of that fear. The end of the Cold War certainly helped. But now, here we are nearly 20 years later, and I have to worry about it again.

What is wrong with George W Bush? This guy is just as maniacal and evil as all those other fuckers out there! What kind of lunatic makes these bold threats? I can't believe how badly this fucking moron has screwed up the world in the short time he's been in power. At the rate things are spiralling downwards, we'll be lucky to make it to 2004.