Yesterday I went back to the Apple Store in Freehold and bought a MacBook Pro. Using Steph’s educator’s discount, I was able to save around $300 [$200 on the MBP itself, plus $110 on the AppleCare]. I got a base 15″ 2.16Ghz model. Saturday I was debating weather or not I wanted [...]
Went to the Apple Store grand opening this morning. I had my dad call the mall earlier in the week to see if they were doing any kind of special setup. They said they weren’t expecting a crowd and to just come at 9:30. Boy were they ever wrong. I did [...]
Yesterday, Apple released the Intel successor to the iBook: the MacBook [still the worst name ever]. With that, Apple has smashed any hopes I had remaining of getting a 12″ MacBook Pro. And it looks like the nice folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog agree with me. The 13″ MacBook, while [...]
I think just about everybody does one of these posts sooner or later, so now it’s my turn. In this post I’ll list the applications that I use everyday, most of which I can’t compute without anymore.
At the pinnacle of the list are quicksilver, Desktop Manager, and WindowShade X. I mainly use quicksilver [...]
For the past week+ I’ve been reading Programming in Objective-C. That’s not the scary part. The scary part is that I’m thoroughly enjoying it and I might actually like Objective-C better than I like Python. At least so far. “How can that be?” you may ask. “Python’s syntax is so [...]
The other day in IRC, I was having fun with typing things backwards. I decided to write a Python script to automate my silliness. I came up with this one-liner:
print ”.join([x for x in reversed(raw_input("String here: "))])
Josh came up with this one-liner:
print “stringtoreverse”[::-1]
The main problem with my script is that it uses “reversed()”, [...]
I wish I were talented enough to work at Google and sit around having conversations like this one, which Guido recounted on python-dev:
Over lunch with Alex Martelli, he proposed that a subclass of dict with this behavior (but implemented in C) would be a good addition to the language. It looks like it wouldn’t be [...]
Steph got me a ThinkOutside Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard for my Nokia. It truly adds to the sweetness of the device. Here are some pictures.
I decided, just for the hell of it, to learn vim. I had always considered myself an Emacs man, because even while I didn’t really use it, it was the first *nix text editor I ever used. So I guess I felt some kind of loyalty to it. It probably didn’t help [...]