Quixotic Bravado

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• IMG2TXT: ASCII Art Made Easy! This script takes the URL of a GIF, JPG, or PNG image and converts that image into ASCII text or colored HTML. Not very useful, but pretty cool.
• 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging
• Iconize Textlinks with CSS - pooliestudios
• iGoogle’s Winter Theme javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/winterscape.xml’);void(0); go to iGoogle, paste the code in the address bar, press Enter and click on the Save button in “Select a theme for this tab” to keep the new theme.
• Micromat - Syphone Syphone is a freeware Macintosh utility for use with Apple’s iPhone. The program installs on your Macintosh and does not alter the iPhone in any way. This application lets you view, save, and back up your SMS messages.
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done! gem install rails -y –source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A spider’s view of Web 2.0 We’ve compiled some tips for creating Ajax-enhanced websites that are also understood by search engines.
• Begley’s Blog: Time Machine Menu Bar Add-On Goes in: “/System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras”
• Guarding Your Social Security Number - TIME
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• Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Leopard
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• BetterZip Quick Look Generator | MacItBetter Don’t you wish Leopard’s Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? Supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
• BetterZip Quick Look Generator | MacItBetter - Don’t you wish Leopard’s Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? Supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
• IconGrabber - Got files? Get icons -

So after about a year of not blogging about anything, I finally carved out some time to reboot the blog and pipe in some fresher content.

The reasons for my blogging hiatus are not necessarily good, but they are numerous.

• I’ve been busy with work projects and life in general
• I wasn’t happy with the time and effort needed to customize the Textpattern software I was previously using. I finally did some research and ported everything to WordPress
• After getting an iPhone, I wanted to be able to post on-the-go. Before I was jotting notes down in the ol’ Moleskine of things I wanted to write about later, but by the time I did, the moment was kind of gone.
• I wanted to be able to lifestream a little better. You’ll see that this blog now aggregates information from other sites I’m on. I’m looking into plug-in and other ways to pull in content from the other places I’m inhabiting online.

So I’m going to continue to try and refine how the content gets pulled in and hopefully encourages me to jot down my own ramblings a bit more.

Thanks for reading!