Monthly Archives: October 2007

To Thy Ownself Be True Comments Off

I had a client describe me as ‘meticulous’, I quickly corrected him, I’m nowhere near meticulous, what I am is ‘specific’ or possibly ‘hugely-anal-retentive’, I know precisely what I want, and generally don’t waiver from that, does that make me ‘meticulous’?

Interesting view of the art museum Comments Off

I don’t often get to see the art Museum from the 52nd floor of the Mellon Center - shot with my iPhone through a substantial slab of glass.

Second funniest thing I heard this week Comments Off

I: “That uses PHP, and a custom ODBC connector API”
C: “Why are you ALWAYS spelling?”

I almost passed out I laughed so hard, glad it was a conference call.

I don’t make this stuff up Comments Off

This mellow audio mash-up features:

Zamfir (YES‡ the Master of the Pan flute himself)
Dirty Vegas
The Bee Gee’s

Interestingly this track loops almost seemlessly - I had it on repeat and didn’t even notice it until I’d been listening for 20 minutes - thinking to myself, “man this is a long Zamfir track”.
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202 Horny (LOCAL) Girls Comments Off

grr.. typical weekday spam numbers — 3095 emails — 407 mention breasts — 105 mention Viagra — 2 Nigerian Bank scams — 175 stock alerts, 300 folks following up on the mortgage email they sent me last week and 202 horny girls in my area that want to meet me.
I guess there’s no original spam […]

Client Random Comments Off

For years I’ve joked about a utility function that I use on every job appropriately named Client.random() — I know what you’re thinking; Saul, how is Client.random() any different than random()? The answer is actually very simple – Client.random() doesn’t randomize, it iterates - and this post isn’t about programming, it’s about customer relations - […]

The Raw Power Of Launchbar + Shell Comments Off

So I’ve been twitting for a short time, Like so many people I downloaded ‘Twittererific’ and have been happily twitting away - it’s a solid sexy little app, and honestly I would expect nothing less from the guys at iconfactory, they rock, and rock hard. Given my recent love affair with the shell, I realized […]

GTD via Shell by way of LaunchBar 2

I’m forever fiddling with online ‘organizers’ one of the nicest IMHO is Backpack by those 37 signals guys, it’s clean and straightforward - and while I doubt I’ll ever actually use it for my day-to-day masterlist, it’s an excellent place to jot down some quick notes - till I can transcribe them into the ‘uber’ […]

The Coolest Mac app you’ve never seen Comments Off

I was looking for a way to drop bookmarks to email threads in Mail.app‡ when I stumbled upon Hallon a VERY cool open-source project by Peter Borg (of Smultron fame), it’s exactly what I was looking for and SO MUCH MORE.
Peter does a much better job describing it than me.
Hallon can create bookmarks in many […]

Gmail unBrowsered Comments Off

I’m a pretty heavy gSuite user(gmail,calendar,docs) for the most part I’m fine using them in a browser, my browser of choice happens to be Safari, When I got a chance to try the then beta Mailplane out, I jumped at it, it’s not bad, it made managing my five gmails accounts pretty painless, and the […]