By default git on OSX wasn't colorizing its output. Two things needed to be setup - setting the color.ui to auto and setting the pager (less) to allow raw characters. Add this to ~/.gitconfig [color] ui = auto [core] pager = less -R Presto! Nice colorized output from git!

I wasn't escaping the ship name and destination before creating the XML so a & character would make the javascript choke. Fixed now, so you should be seeing ships update.

www.guetech.org was the first domain I ever registered. This was back when domains were free and you send in an email form with your request. I used it for a UUCP connected BBS (via Eskimo North) for a short time from my apartment in the mid 90s. Since then I have mostly used it to host mirrors of the Infocom Gallery project and the Interactive Fiction Archive. I have just finished moving the data to a new server, and in addition to ftp access to the archive I am now offering http access.

Newseum archives the front pages of of over 500 newspapers from all around the world. If you know the ID of the papers you want to see you can use this simple Python program to download the jpg of the papers' front page to your local system. Edit the CITIES list to set the IDs of the papers to be grabbed. #!/usr/bin/env python """ Quick Newseum Frontpage Grabber script Copyright 2009 by Brian C.

Much to my surprise my 2 new iPhone apps were approved today. This must be a new record for the App Revew process -- according to the history the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Countdown app started review at 11:26 AM and was approved at 15:08 (3h42m), the NASCAR Countdown version took slightly longer, from 9:23 to 16:42 (7h19m). I suppose the fact that these are dead-simple apps with only 2 views may have had something to do with the fast turn around.

The ALMS Countdown app displays a countdown to the next American Le Mans Series race, the name of the race and the television network carrying the race. On the flip side all of the races for the 2010 season are listed, and tapping on one of them will go to the website for that track. Requirements * iPhone or iPod Release Notes v1.0 Initial release Screenshots

Hygrosens manufactures a number of sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, light level, pressure. Their devices use a common serial data format for a wide variety of sensors, include 1-wire sensors from Dallas. This library reads the output from Hygrosens devices and passes it to a calling function as a hash. I have included an example that outputs the readings in human readable format, and another that stores the readings into a MySQL database.

I have made an iPhone version of my NASCAR Countdown Widget and submitted it to the App Store. The NASCAR Countdown app displays a countdown to the next race, the name of the race and the television network carrying the race. On the flip side all of the races for the 2010 season are listed, and tapping on one of them will go to the nascar.com website for that track.

I'm not sure what made me think of these today, but I did a couple of Google searches to see if I could track down any more of these shirts. The only one I could find is the Creep shirt. There seems to be a lack of info on them on the web, so I'm going to help fix that. Stephen King owns a couple of radio stations in Maine, one is WZON and back in the mid 80's the Stephen King newsletter had advertisements for these t-shirts.

This is a simple countdown widget for the OSX Dashboard. It is a pure javascript implementation so it will also run inside a web browser as you can see above. This widget will display the time until the next NASCAR Broadcast, the countdown takes into account your local timezone. This widget was inspired by the Sprint Cup Widget which is now outdated. I used the graphics for the Daytona countdown from NASCAR and modified it to calculate the correct time and select the next available race.